Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bears struck early, setting the tone of the game with a touchdown less than five minutes into the contest...
...insight into what makes good turn bad might help doctors make good cholesterol even better. It may also point the way to better drugs and explain why aspirin helps prevent heart attacks. Besides its well-known action of thinning the blood and making clotting less likely, aspirin may also tone down the inflammation that leads to plaque formation...
...more appealing to adults than those that are lively and sophisticated. The rhythm, look and attitude of Channel Umptee-3, for example, are extremely familiar. You've seen all the moves a million times, and watching the show you enter a state of reflexive TV consciousness. The pace and tone of the more simplistic programs, on the other hand, is very unfamiliar, which makes them oddly fascinating. More effectively than a minimalist musical composition or a 16-hour theater piece featuring lots of chanting, they stretch your sense of time and change your mode of thinking. They also exercise...
Does anyone have title to history? With their shared basis in fact, there are obviously a lot of similarities between Echo of Lions and Amistad. But judging from the film's shooting script, the two works are vastly different in tone, structure and dramatic focus. Echo of Lions has moments of empathic brilliance but suffers from not knowing which events deserve emphasis. The Amistad script is the sleek, A-list product--riveting, literate, conventional...
...Relationships of mood, relation- ships among harmonies, among registers, things with tone--others involved the Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich preludes. It [this kind of approach brings] up Brahms, because of course Beethoven, in a way parallel to Bach, influenced Brahms--Brahms was always copying out chorales...