Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Figaro's comic nuances escape him; he is excellent in the patter of 'Aprite un po, Figaro's attack on female infidelity, and in the touching final duet with Susanna. Benaim, as the Count, has perhaps the most pleasing voice in the cast, combining power and a dark, rich tone. Brown has a pretty voice, well equipped for Cherubino's charming arias, and brilliant comic instincts--her arm-waving and swooning in the cross-dressing scene is hilarious...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Defense Secretary William Perry suggested Wednesday that China tone down "menacing military maneuvers" near rival Taiwan, the Pentagon's second remark in 24 hours on a situation that Washington hopes will cool before it gets truly hot. "It is in the interests both of the Chinese and Taiwanese to resolve their differences peacefully," Perry told a group of students. Tuesday, a Pentagon spokesman said that Beijing, which already has conducted a missile test near Taiwan last fall, had sent an unspecified number of Chinese troops and military equipment toward the Chinese coast opposite the island. Even so, China...
...media campaign. Surprisingly, it was Dole, the cautious veteran, who took a long time to split his personality. Dole's staffers actually toughened the rhetoric in the days following his brittle response to Clinton's State of the Union address. Only early last week did they realize that their tone was hurting them, and that Dole, who could make a grocery list sound mean, was reinforcing his hatchet-man image day after...
...also has a literal dark side. His most enduring pictures dare you to see in the dark. They're so heavily shadowed that your eyes have to adjust to the carbon-tone depths. In his portraits of jazz and blues artists like John Coltrane and Jimmy Scott, the darkness of the nightspots where they work is also a spiritual working condition, a favorable climate for an art in which the self might need to be in communication with its surrounding shadows. There's a different feeling to the darkness in his after-hours street scenes. This isn't just...
...fund U.N. monitoring operations. Iraq most strenuously objects to the UN?s insistance that some of the profits be spent on relief for the nation?s Kurdish minority. Saddam Hussein has refused those terms to date, saying they infringe on Iraqi sovereignty, but negotiators for his regime took a more conciliatory tone this morning, saying they intend to cooperate with the U.N. officials. Diplomats from member nations of the Security Council, including chief American delegate Madeleine Albright, have said the terms of the five-year-old resolution implementing the embargo are not negotiable. Talks could go on a week or longer...