Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first full week as President, Ronald Reagan made a determined effort to set the agenda and the tone for his next four years. At the President's initial press conference and in other words and deeds, some symbolic and some concrete, he made it pla-in that he has strategies for foreign as well as domestic policy, that he has a team he thinks can carry them out and that he will not be deterred by criticism...
...both ways on the same page. They look like zombies when they leave. And there's a reason for this. Professors, really, can't be any less abstruse. Most of them want or need to get a book out of their lecture notes, and that immediately means that the tone is going to be less than conversational. Those who don't are at least mildly interested in the abstract beauty of the whole thing, which means again that the tone will be, anything but conversational...
...sell out and adapt. One of the blackest jokes in the movie occurs when Lord Gypsy annoints his draught-plagued audience with bogus snow to the crooning of "White Christmas;" Gypsy proclaims "I can make it snow in Brazil like it does in all civilized countries." His ironic tone suggested he knows what it takes to get ahead in that world...
...clever social commentary, the biting satire? What happened to the attacks on advertising and the tube? Maybe Schumacher and Wagner were afraid they wouldn't be able to sell their movie to a network if their assault became too brutal. Whatever the reason, the sudden change in tone and content is a cheat...
...avail. In short, this looked like a job for Muhammad Ali. At least that is what one of Ali's p.r. men thought when he happened on the scene. Moments after being summoned, the former heavyweight champ arrived in his personal emergency vehicle-a two-tone brown Rolls-Royce-lights flashing. He ascended to a window near the desperate 21-year-old, a black Navy veteran, and began to rap: "You're my brother ' said the Greatest, "I love you, and I couldn't lie to you. I want you to come home with me, meet...