Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rectitude is something that De la Madrid wants to bring back into fashion in Mexico. He has constantly stressed the theme of "moral renovation." De la Madrid set the tone for his campaign after he discovered a P.R.I, worker driving a Ferrari that had been given to him by the mayor of Mexico City, Carlos Hank Gonzalez. De la Madrid had the man fired and asked for his resignation from the party...
Given their bent, movie stars naturally give the stories of their lives many cinematic touches. Their accounts frequently take on the tone of melodrama or soap opera. Lauren Bacall watches her new lover Humphrey Bogart go home to his wife from the set of To Have and Have Not: "When would I see him? When would he call? How could he stand to be with that woman? How could he stand not to be with me?" Young Henry Fonda looks up at the suddenly dark window of the apartment in which he believes his wife Margaret Sullavan to be consorting...
...major flaw in the film's handling of this theme is its tone. Horovitz seems slightly confused by his chosen form: the comedy-drama. Allowing the film to teeter between pathos and slapstick, he treats the material too lightly to evoke a poignant response from the audience, yet not satirically enough to inspire much laughter. Moreover, the overly cheerful conclusion results from a painfully contrived plot twist...
...tone of your story about the Soviet scheme to reverse its rivers [June 14] is unduly alarmist. Only the first stage of the European diversions will be under construction by 1990. These would have adverse effects, of which the Soviets are well aware, but not of the proportions you indicate. The grand projects that could cause major environmental damage continue to be studied by Soviet scientists and engineers and are unlikely to be implemented until the 1990s or later...
...died in 1930, at 93), he does not have to confront her in the decades when she reigned implacably over Bayreuth. He cites ample evidence of Wagner's more monstrous traits, which Cosima shared or abetted: egomania, antiSemitism, a devouring exploitativeness. Yet Skelton seems to take his tone from a remark of Cosima's, when the abandoned Bülow told her he forgave her. "What is needed," said Cosima, "is not forgiveness, but understanding." -By Christopher Porterfield