Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a pause, then came the query, in a wondering tone...
...viewer belongs to Ira Wohl, a gifted documentary film maker who is also Philly's cousin. His approach during three years of filming was quite unlike the disdainful stare of cinéma verité, although much of what he recorded is bleak. The tone of the film is passionate advocacy, and its real subject is the dignity of love in a family hard-pressed by age and illness. Pearl, Philly's mother, is in her late 70s, and Max, his father, is three years older and ailing. They have sheltered Philly all his life in their small...
...ranks of the New Left. Nor have Marshall's Seattle Eight co-defendants lapsed into torpor suburbanus. One was jailed only two years ago for conspiracy, another died after years of ruinous drug taking and late nights, and the others tend to espouse leftist causes that range in tone from Jane Fonda chic to Hanoi histrionics...
...drive in three dozen primaries and even more campaigning across the country to get their names known. That necessity works against a responsibly employed but generally unknown office holder who has pressing duties the to fulfill, and in favor of an "unemployed millionaire," in the sarcastic tone of Senator Howard Baker, a loser under the new system. Primary campaigns, it is charged, are largely television campaigns, rewarding the candidate who flashes a winning smile over the one who talks serious issues...
...brought through the tone of the conference, which is, in order to have influence, we must present documented and reasoned arguments, Chassin said...