Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garnered high initial hopes, even from many who opposed him, both because of his personal style and because the U.S. is famished for cheer. On Jan. 20 Reagan and the idea he embodies will both emerge from their respective seclusions with a real opportunity to change the direction and tone of the nation...
...powerful than before. On his state visit to India earlier this month, he had to be helped up and down stairs, but otherwise looked alert and vital. In February he is expected to preside over the 26th Communist Party Congress, which will sing his praises as it sets the tone and direction of Soviet policy for the next five years...
...Administration's upbeat tone was reflected in key areas of the economy last week. Wells Fargo and Chase Manhattan reduced the prime rate they charge their best corporate customers from 21% and 21.5%, respectively, to 20.5%. Although only a few banks lowered their rates, it was the first fall in the prime since late July, when the key interest rate started careering upward from 11%. Just that modest drop, though, was enough to send Wall Street into a rally, as the Dow Jones industrial average soared 21.59 points in one day. The stock market has been beset by fears...
...American pop movies: Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Nutty Professor, 2001, Alien, Love Story. It opens at fever pitch and then starts soaring-into genetic fantasy, into a precognitive dream of delirium and delight. Madness is its subject and substance, style and spirit. The film changes tone, even form, with its hero's every new mood and mutation. It expands and contracts with his mind until both almost crack. It keeps threatening to go bonkers, then makes good on its threat, and still remains as lucid as an aerialist on a high wire. It moves with...
...lack of conviction in his playing that is, perhaps, understandable. If he is going to make this kind of film, he should learn from Brando how to take the money and hide out behind the makeup. As for Keller, she is just impossible, an actress whose monotony of tone dims everything she touches...