Word: tone
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Wilford led Harvard on the most efficient and deadly drive of the season. He set the tone for the game by completing his first two passes to sophomore receiver Andy Fried and urging the coaches to attempt a clutch fourth down in Dartmouth territory...
Just 15 seconds into the contest, after Dartmouth had kicked off, Weed raced into the center of the field, intercepted a pass and pushed the ball deep into the Big Green zone, setting the tone for the game early...
...celebration of the future. It's an elegy for the past. As I sit here, on the brink of the fin de millennium, I'm already misty-eyed with nostalgia. I'll miss the 20th century. I really liked it. I liked the abstract art, the 12-tone music, the absurdist theater, the austere furniture, the Manichaean bipolar geopolitics. And so, given my longing for an irretrievable past, I think insularity and exile are the ambient notes to strive for this year, as opposed to your mindless, self-annulling, Leni Riefenstahl-style euphoria. Here's my provisional itinerary...
...fared better had the makeup design made some pretense of realistically defining the characters' ages. Alas, the audience is thus left to wonder how Stotland could possibly be the mother of Jump and Smith, save for the fact that she walks more slowly and speaks without the breathy, childish tone that Jump seems to mistake for the way high school students actually speak...
Falwell acknowledged that the Shepard murder was an important spur to last weekend's reconciliation. The stated purpose of the meeting was to tone down rhetoric that may lead to hate crimes against either gays or Christians. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Falwell told gay and lesbian delegates, "I will be vigilant in assuring that we do not make statements that can be construed as sanctioning hate or antagonism against homosexuals." Visitors said Falwell apologized for making hateful diatribes against gay people, and called on parents to love their children regardless of their sexual orientation...