Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good to last. The film's cynical insider tone turns apocalyptic for a third act of corrupt development schemes and race riots. The preachy message has drowned out the music. And what began as a giddy ride in the Time Machine ends up as angst for the memories...
...they could expect such people to live together in the same Yard and same dormitories unless they found a way to keep them in. They had tried and failed with fences, but now they had a better idea. The next day, they brought in the first shipment of loud, tone-deaf street musicians, and let them loose in front of Johnson Gate...
...outcome was disappointing. That relay [(4x100)] really set the tone for the day." Co-Captain Theresa Moore said. "It should've been much closer...
...singular draftsman. Lopez's pencil drawings, both tiny and enormous --Water Closet, 1970-73, is 8 ft. high--display a command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness...
Today I received a letter from you with my ballot for the election of overseers, urging me to think carefully about my decision. I have been voting as carefully and conscientiously as I can for five years now. and I am deeply offended by the patronizing tone, invidious implications, and what seems to be the political rationale of your letter...