Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the realm of scenarios and strategies, there is a more amorphous but still important respect in which Israel is doing a disservice both to itself and to its American defenders. Israel sometimes seems to have taken on the visage and tone of a rather nasty and bitter nation, even a violent one. There was something strutting and heartless about the way the Begin government celebrated its gratuitously vengeful bombing attack on Beirut, in which about 300 were killed. It would be unreasonable to expect official contrition. But Israel in the past has managed to convey more sorrow than anger...
Like Garp, the new book is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice. Unlike Garp, Hotel aggressively links realism with the tone and symbolism of fable. Imagine a fairy tale dealing explicitly with rape, incest, prostitution and terrorism. Imagine the Brothers Grimm without the dense mythological overlay...
...also sounded a more conciliatory tone than he had in the past, promising that the U.S. would respond in kind to any Soviet efforts to reduce international tensions "that are so costly to both our societies." He did not specifically mention the neutron bomb in his address, but last week's events made his main theme all the more compelling: "We must compete with the Soviet Union to protect freedom, but we must also search for cooperation to protect mankind." -By Walter Isaacson...
Body Heat-wonderful title-bears a family resemblance in plot and tone to James M. Cain's Double Indemnity: a man more ordinary than he thinks he is meets a newly rich femme fatale; sparks fly, plots hatch, a husband dies, insurance claims are debated, friendships fray, the lovers quarrel and part explosively. And though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir...
...Mottetti, stylishly performed by Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty and Pianist Edward Auer, recalls the late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song...