Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...libretto, adapted by stage director J. Scott Brumit, offers a good gauge of the show's tone, which teeters between the stylized and the awkwardly colloquial. "Ah, Adina," sighs Nemorino, the rejected farmboy. "Why, why must it be this way?" and she answers. "What a question...
...BALTIMORE's script holds a scarcely concealed elegiac tone, accentuated by the date of the action: Memorial Day, 1972. Wilson's cast of losers looks nostalgically at the trains that pass through nearby Union Station, but they live in a world that doesn't care about the past, that churns up the present and those who live in it, and then spits them out, forgotten. It's the old Cuckoo's Nest Syndrome; the inmates at the Hot I know what's going on, but no one is listening...
Despite its high propaganda content, the Brezhnev initiative could not be ignored. Some skeptics felt that his soothing tone was aimed mainly at driving a wedge between the U.S. and its European allies. But most assessments concluded that the overture should be explored. As Kremlinologist Starr put it, "Brezhnev's proposal indicates a commendable willingness to talk-and, at the same time, a staggering blindness to the recent events that have made us reluctant to talk. Still, [in the balance] I take it as positive...
Faces in My Time can be read as one humiliation after another, swallowed with barely a twitch. When his fifth novel, What's Become of Waring, sells exactly 999 copies, Powell records the figure in the tone of a conscientious bookkeeper. When World War II comes and his colleague Evelyn Waugh flies off to serve as a commando in Greece, Powell goes to the War Office, enlists-and gets assigned to posts in England and Wales, where there is little to do but read Kierkegaard. When George Orwell dies, Powell is left to choose the hymns. In every Powell...
...lameftation cannot obscure the blatantly self-adulatory tone that pervades the production. Incessant references to the paraphernalia of a legal disdain for those who do not fit into their moid...