Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this increasingly literal and openly personal narrative that has marked Dylan's recent work. The opening cut from Time Out of Mind, "Love Sick," followed "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," and was given the most striking live interpretation of all the songs that evening. "Love Sick" sets the introspective tone of the new album with a moody sound and sedate tempo, and in concert, with a thick and reverberating sonic treatment applied to the instruments, it was particularly effective...
Williams plays Sean McGuire, a therapist hired by Lambeau, an MIT professor (Skarsgard), to help Will after he is arrested for getting in a brawl. Sean is instructed to tone down the rebellious Will, and make him accept a place in the world of corporate mathematicians. Things get complicated when Sean's hopes for Will to choose his own destiny conflict with Lambeau's ambitious goals (while Will watches gleefully as people fight over him). Will dismisses Lambeau and initially tries to hold out on McGuire. And though he embarks on a relationship with Skylar (Minnie Driver), a beautiful, wealthy...
Hodgkinson, a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, opened the program with Dallapiccola's Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera, a set of 11 variations upon a twelve-tone theme that the composer created for his daughter and presented to her on her eighth birthday in 1952. In the pre-concert lecture, Harvard professor John Stewart illuminated, a la First Nights, the history of Dallapiccola's career and discussed points of interest like the Simbolo, a four-note theme derived from the letters in "Bach." As concertmistress Stephanie Misono turned the pages of his score, Hodgkinson breezed through the simplistic...
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 then chaired a smaller committee to draft the rules for such outposts. Sources describe these rules as strong in tone and content, because Harvard's top officials believe any outposts would affect the whole University's activities and image...
...fact that you know who I am speaks volumes about the rise of spinners and handlers [in American politics]," Carville said, setting the tone for the evening of complaints about the ills of modern politics...