Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feltsman falls between extremes. An angular, bearded man with the suffering face of a symbolist poet, he communes with the keyboard, not with the audience. His technique is solid but not especially flashy, his tone rich but not warm. Like many Soviets, Feltsman has some residual romantic mannerisms, such as a rhythmic stutter step in phrasing that in the early 19th century would have been viewed as a genuine rubato (literally, robbing the time value of one note and adding it to another) but is today decried as distortion...
Despite his reputation as a hard-liner, the new President immediately set a moderate tone. In his radio broadcast Ben Ali stressed the need for democratic reform, saying, "The age in which we live can no longer permit either presidency for life nor automatic succession as head of state. Our people are worthy of a developed and institutionalized political life." He pledged to eliminate "favoritism" in the political system, which is dominated by the ruling Destourian Socialist Party...
...title role in this show. Raphael, who was on the mainstage earlier this season in Lie of the Mind, said this production was one of the most fun he had ever worked on. And he credited this to Hainsworth and the producers "for setting a friendly yet serious tone for the show." Many other actors agree...
...course, progress in a peace negotiation must often be measured in shifts of tone. Thus what Arce did not say may be more important. He ruled out neither diplomatic talks nor a negotiated cease-fire. Moreover, a day earlier, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra obliquely suggested that he might be willing to meet with the rebels. His refusal thus far, Ortega told TIME, "is not a dogmatic position or a position of principle. It's simply a realistic position. If I were sure that by talking to the contras we could solve the problem of the war, we would have talked...
...Francisco cop, is essentially a Hill Street Blues combination of crime-show action, broad comedy and "sensitive" character drama, slickly done but a bit overripe for its half-hour length. The Slap Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman as an oafish sportswriter, opts for a looser structure and more melancholy tone. Slap is a blustering loser who is constantly getting socked in the face, pushed around by his boss and dumped on by women; when his estranged son shows up for a visit, the reluctant dad has to poll co-workers for possible topics of conversation. Not exactly...