Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rhythms, from standards (What Is This Thing Called Love?) to appealing originals (Ophelia, Blues for Blanche), and from wistful ballads (Over the Rainbow) through funky Latin beats (Mambo Koyama) to awesome, high-speed pyrotechnics (Cherokee). Amazingly, after all his debilitating periods of obscurity and silence, his full, ringing tone was unimpaired, his melodic gift intact, his instinct for pace and structure still solid...
...melancholy, of the "blues." But it also enabled Picasso, as the pervasive brown-gray monochrome of analytical cubism later would in a different way, to take color out of his work, so that he could make a compromise between decorative flatness and sculptural volume in terms of pure tone...
...sequel Oliver's Story owed their popularity to one of Hollywood's most successful formulas. Like the old immigrant movie moguls, Segal has a shrewd instinct for providing audiences with idealizations of America's traditional affluent classes. There can be trouble and even tragedy in Franchot Tone country, but no one shouts, keens, throws things or dresses badly. -R.Z. Sheppard
...voice continued to ask probing questions. The next day the professor showed up in Furniss's office, extremely disturbed by the mystery caller. Furniss called the FBI liaison man into his office and warned him to tone down his information-gathering techniques. Fairfield's story ended by reporting rumors that Yale officials supplied "complete appointment lists...
Another factor in the success formula has to be this year's freshmen. Coach Bill McCurdy managed to amass a stellar contingent of Yardlings, who filled many traditionally weak areas and set a distinctively ebullient, young tone for the squad...