Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEGIN HAS GIVEN Israel a terrible image problem. His harsh, vituperative tone manifested itself repeatedly this summer, often when he sought to defend Israel's repeated violations of the cease-fires to which it had agreed. His intentions may be laudable, but his faux pas are counterproductive...
...Rhine Maidens playing near a hydroelectric dam, Chéreau fashioned an allegory of the industrial revolution from Wagner's mythic tale of greed and its consequences. A vivid mixture of naturalistic detail and wild flights of imaginative fancy, the Chéreau Ring set the tone for what followed...
Women can move proudly into the security of then-new bodies ? they can jog into shape, lift weights for body tone, wear themselves out in the disco bliss of Jazzercise. But what about men? "Jazzercise is a blowout," one Atlanta woman says. "Remember the first dances you went to, where all the girls ended up dancing with other girls because the boys couldn't dance? So this gives me a chance to dance, which my husband hasn't done since our wedding. But my husband still won't dance. Come to think of it, I'm back to dancing...
...house ghetto: Mickey's Mousercise has sold more than 350,000 copies. New magazines like Fit and New Body are preaching an enlightened narcissism. Fitness gurus, from Richard Simmons to Kathy Smith to that rock-hard perennial Jack LaLanne, start the TV day with exhortations to slim down and tone up. At the movies, the new actresses are quirky and resourceful, and so are the characters they play. "The old image of a star actress," says Larry Mark, vice president of production at Paramount Pictures, "was of a beautiful woman lounging in her peignoir, popping bonbons while she painted...
that tan!" "Look at that tone!" Fonda's critics took a different view. "She has a body like wood," one man said. "You don't want to stroke her, you want to sand her down." Dale Pollock, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, complained, "That scene is supposed to be the climax of the film. Instead, it's a commercial for Jane Fonda's Workout Book." If so, the commercial did its job. Work-out (Simon & Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times...