Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all of these self-proclaimed nuggests of praise for the new release, Hanley never comes across as obnoxious or self-absorbed. An easygoing, conversational tone stamps out any question of pop rock pretentiousness--she is a normal person unaffected in her personal life by widespread radio airplay. Whether discussing her favorite Boston bands (Trona, Gravel Pit, Sterlings), pausing to discuss her mother's daily phone call or thinking about the dinner awaiting her, she is in every way a normal person...
...more musical sincerity in this sensitive area finds the soft, expressive "Aloutte & Me." A change in vantage point at the love lost and found ("why did you go ruin every thing...it's the strangest thing/it doesn't hurt but I won't forget the sting") sets a sorrowful tone to Hanley's emotional prude. Add a little more edge to the vocals, guitar and drums to "Alouette & Me" and "Because Of You" pops rights out. Hanley wants to let go but can't bear to detach: "I've a dark and snowy remembrance of this/but remind me again...
...Frates is a fantastic speaker, and we've been lucky to have him come for the past few years. He really sets the tone," Thiessen said. He said he encourages students to get involved with finance...
DIED. VISCOUNT TONY-PANDY, 88, silver-tongued Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1976 to 1983, whose Welsh-accented "Order! Order!" set the tone for parliamentary debate; in Cardiff, Wales...
...speaks to said steer.) This sequence, along with a steamy sex scene between Vincent Vaughn and Ashley Judd, had to be heavily edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. But even with the editing, it's still a visceral piece of filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what could have been the year's grossest cinematic moment, into something that's as disturbing as it is oddly poetic. But it is not representative of the film as a whole, which mixes elements of film noir and moralist western, with a hint of '50s teen angst...