Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notes in the umpteenth position with more clarity and precision than the old master himself (Kreisler had to be a genius to be able to make millions of his concerts and records and manage to get away with an hour's practicing once a month). Shlomo's earthy, robust tone enlivens every phrase in these three pieces...
...journal is finally retrieved by a comely, red-haired reporter, Rita Macklin, who, unlike most other fictional red-haired reporters, is both credible and vulnerable. Schism, like his first novel, November Man, shows Bill Granger to be deft at high-wire suspense. His prose has the gritty tone of a Le Carre and a special feeling for a burned-out case...
Inured as people are to news of athletic improprieties, they are equally unconcerned about the gambling tone that pervades even the best newspapers' sports sections: full of odds, point spreads and columns on how to bet. Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder furnishes television with both a gambling expertise and persona...
...worst they suggested nothing more pernicious than that men do make passes at girls in Jordaches. The two forms of sweetcoms, the noble and the naughty, are deadlier. They announce that children are either sugar or sass-dewy-souled twerps or stunted comedians-and that they must set the tone for domestic life. Hence, parents must go with the flow: act as dispensers of homilies or as stoic butts for the resident insult comic...
...afraid that I might not fit in because I play more aggressively. But this team goes out and wins it in the first 20 minutes. We take the game to them; we set the tone. We're not a passive team...