Word: tone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West End. At the National, Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun, a 19th century Irish separatist tract masquerading as a farcical melodrama, proves its author a deft orchestrator of tone and plot...
...finest revival on any London stage is an Uncle Vanya (translated by Michael Frayn, directed by Michael Blakemore) that does justice to both Chekhov's hearty humor and his compassionate sadness at the waste of frustrated lives. It perceives the play's dominant tone not as lethargy but as furious, tragically misdirected energy. As Vanya, Michael Gambon demonstrates anew why he has come to be regarded as perhaps Britain's foremost stage actor. Alternately raging and lapsing into bathos, bubbling with kindness as he worsens the lives of those he most means to help, he embodies the tragedy...
Ushakov believes that two effects of prolonged weightlessness, calcium loss in bones and muscle atrophy, can be largely prevented by exercise. A strict regimen on a treadmill helped keep Romanenko's muscle tone and reduced the calcium loss to a degree that Ushakov calls insignificant. But other effects attributed to weightlessness are still cause for concern. "There is a general weakening of the immune system in a long-duration flight," Ushakov says. "When this happens, there is a danger that every microorganism present in the ship can cause infection...
...frustration in Scalia's tone was one sign of the ambiguous results of Reagan's effort to nudge the high bench to the right. In the term just ended, the Justices sent out mixed signals on everything from privacy rights to criminal law. Consider some of last week's other notable decisions...
...Gorbachev is giving the Soviet Union yet another new taste: a political convention. Next week's 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference is developing into something almost Western in tone: a genuine political meeting, complete with delegate fights, a sense of spontaneity and a platform ringing with promises of free speech and untapped telephones...