Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NAtion's psychological atmosphere seems to be changing in a deeper way that may have nothing to do with the new presidency. The paralyzing tone of apology and self-denigration is vanishing from public discourse. Americans find themselves unashamedly eager to be Americans. Samuel Johnson's line ("Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel") was interminably quoted in the old skirmishes between hardhats and the dissident young; but patriotism was never merely that. Love of country must always be rescued from scoundrels (Know Nothing nativists, racists, anti-Semites and other thugs), and Americans seem to know that...
...assortment of ludicrous plot contrivances and inate episodes. First, there's Charlotte, the grotesque hooker who opens the film by shooting two rookie officers dead in their parked patrol car. Fort Apache begins as a thriller about urban terror. But not long after the initial murders, Gould changes tone and gives us "A Day in the Life of a N.Y. Cop." As Murphy and Corelli save a Puerto Rican drag queen from suicide, subdue a knife-wielding derelict, chase a swift purse-snatcher, (angle with a slimy pimp, and deliver the child of an unwed fourteen-year-old, the movie...
That, however, was the only touch of playacting; otherwise the drama of the speech came from its subject and context. Both were important enough to justify fully the President's deep concern with sounding the right tone. His task was to begin rallying public support for a program designed to jolt the U.S. out of what he called "the worst economic mess since the Great Depression." Though details will not be spelled out until next week, enough is known already to make it obvious that the program marks a drastic change in national direction. It combines slashes in federal...
...words echoed the harshest rhetoric at the height of the cold war. With a sharp edge to his normally amiable tone, President Ronald Reagan said at his press conference that he knew "of no leader of the Soviet Union since the revolution" who did not pursue the goal of "world revolution ... The only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat...
...gets more beautiful every month." Way Bandy, perhaps the top makeup man in the fashion dodge, is reminded of Elizabeth Taylor. "They don't look alike, but the quality and magnitude of beauty are the same." Does this sublimity have a flaw? Bandy would like to tone down the shaggy eyebrows, but so far Brooke and her mother Teri, who plans her daughter's career as Eisenhower planned Dday, have refused...