Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mugabe's polished, conciliatory tone was in keeping with what he most wanted from his trip: money for his country. He estimated that Zimbabwe would need "something on the order of $1.5 billion in the immediate future" to rebuild its economy, and a total of $4 billion for redevelopment. At a luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan's elegant Plaza Hotel, he said Zimbabwe would welcome investment by any U.S. company that allows some measure of local control, pays decent wages, permits unions and plows some of its earnings back into the host country. Promised Mugabe...
...nation and give the government the necessary breath a while. "It is not good to have Poland terrorized," the strike leader, Lech Walesa, told the crowd. "The people must have food. Poland can only last for a few more days under these conditions." Then, with a more characteristic tone of defiance, he added, "If we don't get results in a few days, then let the strikes spread...
...former military commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, faces possible prosecution as a result of a BBC interview critical of the government. Anxious whites, meanwhile, continue to leave the country at record rates of up to 2,000 a month in the face of sporadic lawlessness and the increasingly Marxist tone of official commentary and TV programming...
...finished product, but neither are they like raw footage: they have the half-polished air of a rough cut. Above all, there is Peter O'Toole, doing his John Huston imitation, but putting a lacy edging of the fey around it. Daring and hilarious, he perfectly sets the tone of this antic, artfully paced piece...
...least three days to bring out their uniquely gamy flavor. At London's incomparable Connaught Hotel dining room, they are served in classic fashion: roasted but bloody, in their own juice, with paté, bread sauce or gravy and potato crisps, preferably accompanied by a light claret "to tone them down a bit," as Connaught Headwaiter Joseph O'Toole puts it. (Sherlock Holmes preferred his grouse fried with bacon and served with currant jelly, gravy, browned potatoes and mushrooms.) A grouse luncheon at the Connaught costs about $58, sans claret. At dinner, the à la carte menu does...