Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cycling is an especially forgiving sport, which commends it to the millions of Americans who want to tone their muscles without jarring their joints. "You can work about as hard or as leisurely as you want," says Houston Surgeon Michael Appel, 50, who pedals twelve miles to work and back every day. "I can do more vigorous exercise without things beginning to hurt." Unlike the hunchback racers of old, this year's hottest models are more comfortable and more durable than earlier ones. "It's really hard for a good bike to break down these days," says Chuck McCullagh, publisher...
This year's presidential campaign has failed to excite the pundits and the voters precisely because the two protagonists, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Vice President George Bush, have yet to coin the phrases that will set the tone for their respective campaigns...
...Ever, Amen, which topped the country charts for three weeks, is a straight-ahead tune, an up-tempo litany of undying devotion -- all right, it's almost corny -- but Travis pulls it from the brink of bathos with some hair- trigger phrasing and a very sly, very worldly tone of voice. This singer's commitment may be total, but it's got as much to do with carnality as idealism...
Striking a very different tone than that of his stirring, though standard, public oratory in the Omni, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson gave a comprehensive strategy speech to his supporters at a celebratory party in his honor on Tuesday night...
...problematic aspects of her analysis are compounded by the breathless tone which infects the book. The author seems stunned to realize that Picasso ate, slept, drank, defecated, etc. And when she reveals that Picasso actually did mean and petty things, Huffington writes with a disdain and lack of comprehension that only reveal how deeply she still sees the master artist as a mythic figure...