Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shame we can't have our fun and be taken seriously too, but given the either-or choice let's tone down the fun. It was a tough decision, I'll admit...
...selection. Arriving in a silver, chauffeured Renault 25 limousine, he strode into the 18th century building and conferred alone with Mitterrand for two hours and 17 minutes in the President's brocaded, Louis XVI-style study. Aides said that the two men, who barely know each other, maintained a tone of utmost courtesy throughout the session. Together they hammered out an agreement on what one Chirac aide called "a blueprint of what they wanted their working methods to be, and of their respective domains of responsibility...
...Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only to Presidents, evangelists and coaches in the N.C.A.A. Final Four. On the big screen...
...Royal Academy. Reynolds' paintings have long since faded, mimicking his reputation. "Sir Sploshua," as others called him for his generous and Rubenesque handling of wet paint surfaces, had an imp of fakery lodged in his breast. He was determined to produce, for his clientele of the great, the tone and mellowed appearance of European seicento art. To this end he would whip up weird mayonnaises of wax, turps, asphaltum, eggs, resin and oil. "Varnished three times with different varnishes, and egged twice, oiled twice, and waxed twice, and sized--perhaps in 24 hours!" exclaimed a fellow artist, Benjamin Haydon...
...Sorry I'm late," he says, strutting his way around the table. "I was just over at The Advocate, telling them to tone down their praise of "Incest Dog," my latest work. I mean, I wrote it in less than an hour...