Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prose is strikingly gnomic as Langley tells of her past and future. But the consistent tone masks an impatience with novelistic invention. Much of the novel reads like a catchall of California behaviors and the confessional sociology that passed for journalism in the '70s. Sometimes See is right on the money: "I don't remember Jack very well at all. And we were married five years! He hated the way I held hamburgers." But there is not enough of this to pass for serious fiction...
...with, this pact is broken. But she cannot overcome the cliches of mistaken-identity comedy that were stylized when Plautus was a pup. Or enliven the film's sermon that even in enlightened environments like Harvard, racial stereotyping and unconscious prejudice still exist. The approach is too comfortable, the tone patronizing. The N.A.A.C.P. has greeted Soul Man with protests; one suspects it is not so much because the movie's heart is in the wrong place, but because its heart is a mechanical...
During her first nine months in office, Aquino showed the people of the Philippines and her political opponents the kind of charm she displayed during her Japan visit. The tougher tone of last week's speeches and warnings to the army, however, was new. It may signal that Aquino, tired of being shoved, is ready to shove back...
Harvard took over on its own 20, and--on the second play from scrimmage--the Crimson set the tone for the drive when Yohe hit a streaking Ed Boyle wide open in the middle of the field. Boyle dropped the ball, but three plays later he made up for it by snagging a bullet from triple-pumping Yohe...
...information about AIDS or predictions about its spread. What distinguished them from previous pronouncements was the authority of their authors (the National Academy of Sciences was chartered by Congress in 1863 as a private body to give advice to the Federal Government), their uncompromisingly blunt language and the urgent tone of their recommendations. Said David Baltimore, cochairman of the NAS committee, at a Washington press conference: "This is a national health crisis . . . We are quite honestly frightened about the prospects...