Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone for the meet was set in the first race, when the Crimson entered three teams and walked off with the top three places in the medley relay. The aquamen also swept the 200-yd. butterfly, with freshman Greg Eckstrom leading the way, and nabbed the top two spots in five other events...
There are also major problems with the tone of this scene. After a finely controlled, realistic first act, Weiner miscalculates and guides the supporting actors into buffoonish caricatures. The actresses attempting Mel's sisters show no subtlety and more annoying, don't seem to believe in their characters as real people. Even their costumes are cartoonish and inappropriate. As Mel's constrained brother Harry, Jamie Orenstein aims at a fuller characterization, but remains rather wooden...
...Reagan advisers also say they had noticed the Soviet leaders' conciliatory new tone on one other recent occasion: when a delegation of onetime U.S. foreign policy officials visited Moscow last month. "That sort of sweetness and light is predictable," grumbled a Reagan team member about Percy's reception in Moscow. "But I don't think they gave an inch on foreign policy...
...with Senator Charles Percy indicated, the Kremlin leaders want to appear willing to improve Soviet-American relations, despite the hard-line rhetoric by President-elect Reagan and his advisers. For political and economic reasons, they would generally like to restore détente-on their terms. But their conciliatory tone also has a propaganda motive: if relations worsen once Reagan enters office, the Kremlin wants to be in the best possible position to blame the U.S. Amplifying the signal Moscow has been sending Reagan, Brezhnev's chief spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, last week released exclusively to TIME an official statement...
Reagan's election has in fact set the tone for a more vigorous anti-Communist thrust to ward off a revolution like the Sandinista takeover in neighboring Nicaragua, but it has not given rightists a license to hunt leftists, or to try to overthrow the junta...