Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador begins with buffoonery, as a down-and-out photojournalist (James Woods) journeys to EI Salvador with his slob friend (Jim Belushi) in search when this dynamic duo are hassled by border guards and confronted by an openly hostile contingency at the U.S. embassy. Although this rapid change in tone is initially somewhat disconcerting, the scenes featuring Woods in a Hawaiian shirt and mirrored sunglasses perched atop of a mound of corpses are powerful in their sheer absurdity. Written and directed by Oliver Stone, who recently achieved recognition for Platoon, Salvador offers a telling juxtaposition of what Americans would like...
...call it just plain slimming down. By whatever name it goes, a compulsion is sweeping through corporate America to bring about fundamental, long-lasting changes in the way it does business. U.S. corporations have always undergone periodic cutbacks in times of recession or strain, but this time the tone and scope of the effort are vastly different. Says Keith Stock, a partner in the Manhattan-based McKinsey & Co. management consulting firm: "What we're seeing is nothing less than a transformation of American industry...
Goodwin registers maternal disapproval rather than disgust about the incident. She takes a similar tone when dealing with J.F.K. the philanderer. His compulsive womanizing, says Goodwin, was a symptom of his dread of intimacy and his fear of early death. He suffered from Addison's disease. But previous accounts of Kennedy hanky-panky portray an insensitive Regency buck claiming sexual entitlements...
...opening match against Princeton, Harvard's number eight player, Doug Lifford, smashed Princeton's Bill Frack, 3-0, to set the tone...
...beginning of each night's program reiterating that the drama is fiction. ABC News is considering airing a special segment of its Viewpoint series to provide a forum for both critics and defenders of the show. But the network has vowed not to cave in to pressure to tone down the controversial movie or cancel it. ABC President John Sias told the New York Times last week, "We're going to run that program come rain, blood or horse manure." Or deadlines: the sprawling project, for which more than 1 million feet of film were shot, is still not done...