Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entire tone of the meet seemed to be set in the first event. Spearheaded by its two 200 medley relay team, Harvard took both first and second places as well as the early 15-2 lead...
...second album, Otherness, is a return to the drum machines and synthesizers of the Cocteaus' first albums. Yet in tone, the EP is light-years away from those days of bristling desperation. "Feet Like Fins" is the most egregious track in this regard. It sounds a thousand other New Age tracks -- the silvery synthesizer line sticks to three notes, Fraser keeps to a mere two, and the song contains of the same four measures repeated over and over. "Violaine." the one track on the EP with personality, has its sublime moments. In the chorus, Fraser's voice finally breaks through...
...audience like another character by addressing it directly. Talking to the audience rather than at it seems to acknowledge as well just how difficult the material is to sit through. All the monologues are autobiographical, so coming from the dead they sound like confessions or complaints, and the tone becomes an issue of stamina...
...hermetic mental world shared by Solange (Lois Folstein) and Claire (Mary Rutkowski), the sisters who are employed in the house of an unnamed "Madame" (Barbara Matteau). The play opens with what seems to be a maid's insurrection against Madame, as Solange inexplicably drops her servile tone and begins to abuse her mistress. Their bizarre, frequently incomprehensible exchange, in which erotic and violent impulses are mingled, is broken off suddenly by the sound of an alarm clock--the real Madame is about to come home, and we learn that Claire has been wearing her clothes as part of a play...
...murder--as in the recent film Sister My Sister, another treatment of the same incident--but to create the atmosphere of insanity; and this requires much better acting than the Pool Theater production could boast. Rutkowski could communicate Claire's sense of superiority only through a sullen, sneering tone; she seemed irritable but not haughty...