Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discretion. In Montreal for a tournament two weeks ago, she eschewed all talk about boyfriends, tattoos or fashion. Instead, attempts to bring forth the infamous Anna attitude were met with flat, seemingly programmed remarks: "I'm just here to play tennis." Says Leand: "She's been told to tone down. She's trying to change the image she's cultivated." And that includes abandoning her old managers at IMG. Advantage International, which represents Kournikova's 28-year-old "good friend" and hockey star, Sergei Fedorov of the Detroit Red Wings, is expected to be taking over...
...HOUSECLEANING FORMULA The idea here is to set a new tone as quickly as possible. Clinton might announce that he will immediately drop all appeals of the various legal privileges and answer any questions Kenneth Starr cares to ask. Clinton could also release his grand jury testimony. He might even ask for the resignation of anyone who tried to help Monica Lewinsky find work, such as Energy Secretary Bill Richardson or deputy chief of staff John Podesta, no matter who asked them to do so. Problem: that could leave people wondering why Clinton is still there...
There were some high points. In the first few minutes, the words were right, the tone confessional. He knew what he had to say, and he was choking out an apology of sorts, though he never used the word. And I was with him. I could only imagine how difficult it was for him. Lord knows, it was painful just to watch. I was almost willing to swallow his claim that his answers in the Jones deposition were "legally accurate." I had hoped he wouldn't try to slice his own words into a meaningless pile of razor-thin legalisms...
...film poster on one couple's wall is for Le Mepris. In English that's contempt--the operative tone in this spiky new farce from the perp of In the Company of Men. A La Ronde for our own fin de siecle, the film offers six yuppies having lots of sex. But no one has much fun. Sex, as one of the women (Catherine Keener, who kills with sarcasm) says, "is not a time for sharing." Jason Patric is the chief sleaze; Ben Stiller adds to his gallery of wormy guys; and Aaron Eckhart is the doleful husband who, when...
...member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and a former regular at Small's, the dingy Manhattan club that has become a key incubator of young talent. His playing is plenty soulful on his second CD--so you'd think, given the title--but with a dry, sometimes acerbic tone that gives the album a haunting edge; listeners may be reminded of John Coltrane's way with a ballad or the blues. As a composer, Irby has a gift for melody, and there are so many fine touches on this disc that it's hard to believe nearly...