Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this technology gives the office an unsettling, almost surreal quality; the first-time visitor sees eight people with their hands at their sides, smiling and talking to the wall in front of them. But gradually, the scene becomes familiar: soon it becomes possible to detect the ultra-polite, unemotional tone of voice that is the trademark of only one profession, and finally, one makes out a phrase here and there and recognizes the cant of Harvard operators...
...Huskies set the tone of the game shortly after the opening kickoff by giving up possession of the ball at their own 20-yard line. Steve Ernst ran the ball to a first down and goal, and Harvard's first of seven touchdowns was scored by starting quarterback Armond Colombo. Colombo was back in the game almost immediately, as the Harvard defense prevented Connecticut from rushing or passing...
...most venturesome new show is Enterprise, 13 often entertaining half-hours about American business, starting Friday. But the series falls short in ways familiar to viewers of commercial network documentaries: an aimlessly neutral, "objective" tone; a visual style that is decorative rather than narrative; and frequent excursions into colorful but unimportant byways-the packaging of a bestseller, auctioning of thoroughbred horses, marketing of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan...
Rarely has a show landed on Broadway amid such anticipation, fanfare and ?so far as the ticket price is concerned ?controversy. Just as the Nickleby marquee over the Plymouth Theater dominates Manhattan's West 45th Street, so the R.S.C. production seems sure to set the tone and standard for this season and many to come. It arrives not only as a certified London smash and perhaps a historic theatrical phenomenon but also as a prepackaged television spectacular: the entire performance has been taped for showing as a four-part miniseries on a syndication network in February...
...masterpiece of Gallic allusion and understatement; Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, the most important work to enter the international repertory since World War II; and Alban Berg's twin monuments - Wozzeck, the seminal opera of our time, and Lulu, the apotheosis of the twelve-tone system...