Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies in South Africa and a ban on imports from South Africa's state-owned steel and coal industries. If he seems calm about the policy storm looming, it may be because he is confident that his plan will receive serious attention. Says Lugar in a deceptively mild tone: "I'm not the kind of person who is easily rebuffed...
Heartburn is now a movie, one sure to stoke controversy because of a comic tone that swerves deftly from affection to irony to flippancy to icy revenge. In its portrayal of Rachel, who needs so much love, and Mark, who wants too much sex, the film may seem to suggest that all women are fools and all men knaves. In fact, it says that nothing is sadder than enduring the death of romance, and nothing more wryly poignant than looking at it from the outside. In Heartburn (as in Kramer vs. Kramer), the "outside" is the tunnel-vision point...
...paid, hey man, I paid, you saw me pay, didn't you?" the boy appealed to his younger friend. "Man, you're just doing this 'cause we're Black. This isn't fair." His companion smiled charmingly at the ticket seller and said in a tone, perhaps meant to remind her of her own son, "Aw com'on, it's hot. Our mother wants us home. Don't make us walk." But the ticket seller held her ground and the older boy started screaming again...
Saturday-matinee serials, gangster dramas with hearts of fudge, airhead romantic comedies. Think they don't make movies like these anymore? Look around, think again and weep a little for the art of cinema. The first reel of a picture will tantalize with originality of story or tone. Then genre anxiety sets in--the filmmakers' compulsion to return to the formats that have worked, and been worked to death, for decades. Can't take the risk of challenging those people out there in the dark; it might frighten them. Movies have to be like TV now: a medium...
...paper carries foreign and national news, its true value lies in its coverage of the local scene, from city council sessions to school basketball games. Blessedly free of boosterism, the Star often casts a critical eye over its own backyard. It is small newspapers like the Star --independent in tone, enterprising in coverage and devoted to exploring local issues thoroughly--that exemplify the grass-roots strength of American journalism...