Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...badges proclaiming PLUS JAMAIS CA (Never Again), some 125,000 students, parents and union members marched through the boulevards of Paris last week in memory of Malik Oussekine, a 22-year-old student who had been killed several days earlier in a violent clash with police. Though the overall tone of the procession was somber and defiant, at one point a celebratory cry rang out: "We have...
...single regular character is a wisecracking child, irreverent senior citizen or cute extraterrestrial. "Let's just say we're not a high-impact comedy like Laverne and Shirley," says Newhart, 57. "We give the audience credit for having some intelligence." Newhart's leisurely, low- voltage style sets the tone; instead of rapid-fire gag lines, he opts for shrewdly timed pauses, stammers and deadpan understatement. He gets his best laughs not so much by acting as by reacting. Says David Mirkin, who produces the show with Douglas Wyman: "Bob is the best 'oh' man in the business...
Asked if the communications director had been asked to "tone down" his remarks, Speakes said, "I haven't heard the president express his views... the president knows Pat as a man of conviction and that Pat's only motive here is to encourage people to speak up for the president...
...Santa Barbara, while Reagan spent the Thanksgiving holiday at his California ranch, Correspondent Beckwith interviewed Administration sources. "Their tone was grim," Beckwith reports, "and the overall mood was sad and depressing. Reagan's strength has been as a communicator, yet this time he seems unable to come up with the words that would satisfy people...
...swing on someone, there he is in front of me. His wife was pregnant, as mine was. Well he never knew it, but he had a son. I don't know why I fight. It's a fire in my gut. But I'll tell you something." His tone grew hushed, as he finally could give personal testimony to an ancient warning. "It damages you up there. I know after that last fight I've been damaged. I've lost some brain cells...