Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday's game, Harvard set the tone for the day on the very first play from scrimmage. After Paul Scheper returned the opening kickoff 26 yards to the Harvard 32, the Crimson set up for a quick pitch left to fullback Jim Callinan, a play that offensive line coach Dick Corbin had told the offensive unit would work for a big gain if everybody...
SPROATS ARGUMENT centers around the five broadcasts Wodehouse made. These provided the crux of the evidence against the author. The broadcasts were mainly Wodehouse's descriptions of life in an internment camp. Because of their often light-hearted tone, many believed that Wodehouse was attempting to show the Germans in a favorable light. But a careful examination of the transcripts (which Sproat includes in full in the appendix) shows only the gentle sarcasm which pervaded everything Wodehouse ever wrote. There is no evidence that he sympathized with the Nazis in the tape; in fact, much of what was interpreted...
...easily traced to Tafoya, who was arrested at his home in Truth or Consequences, N. Mex., in April. Tafoya has variously claimed that he acted in self-defense after Zagallai pulled his own gun, and that he was on a secret mission for the CIA to warn Zagallai to tone down his criticism of Israel. As Tafoya tells it, he was at that time a kind of double agent, working for Wilson even while spying on him for the CIA. The agency denies that Tafoya was in its employ...
...collecting policy issued by the Met six years ago. Stretched to this length, it becomes prolix. Le style c'est l'homme, and Hoving's style reflects the character he showed when he was in power at the museum-windy, lapel-grabbing and insincerely populist. The tone is struck in the first sentence: "The vast halls of the Metropolitan . . . were awesomely still." All halls, tomes, sums of money and issues at stake tend to be "vast." Most stillnesses, works of art, asking prices and responsibilities are "awesome." The only sound on the hushed peaks of High...
...COURSE, Nicholson continues to make his share of bad movies--usually with friends--which are ineffective because he isn't dominant and can't set the proper tone. Don't see The Fortune, a forced, slapsticking situational comedy with buddy Warren Beatty, that has Jack looking like Bozo with a paper moustache, and lacks both slap and situation. Don't see The Missouri Breaks, done with next-door neighbor Marlon Brando, one of the most heralded flops to gallop across the silver screen. Nor Going South, with John Belushi, which features numerous shots of our hero's derriere, proving that...