Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington has doubtless been wondering whether Hollywood would tone down the more controversial aspects of the novel. "We haven't changed any central events of the story in any way," says Nichols. "But there are mysterious things being written about how we've handled things. I've read reports that we've taken the lesbian past of Mrs. Stanton out of the story. Well, I've read the book five times, and we didn't take it out--it's simply not there." Hmmm. Has Kenneth Starr looked into this...
...take off so quickly? One reason is that it is both frankly romantic and immediately accessible--Beethoven's Ninth boldly recast for postmoderns, right down to the climactic anthem in which the children's choir sings ecstatically of the prospect of world peace. The work's user-friendly tone, Tan says, is no accident: "If you ask young people of today to listen to a 20-minute-long symphonic movement, nobody really has the patience to listen--not even me! This is why the symphony is in 13 short movements. It's like paragraphs: each section can be shorter...
Martin Lawrence, as an out-of-work electronics whiz in the new comedy Nothing to Lose, meets co-star Tim Robbins when he jumps into Robbins' car, brandishes a pistol and demands money. But, he later explains in a tone of aggrieved dignity, "I don't steal. I just dabble in future used goods." It is the art of the con man--and of the movie actor--to fool others so exquisitely that he may be fooling himself. So admirers of the popular actor-comedian must hope, and detractors will wonder, when Lawrence defends himself against a flurry of criminal...
...with test bullets that were recently fired from Ray's 30-06 hunting rifle, Judge Joseph Brown said, "This comparison revealed that the gross and unique characteristic signature left on the 12 test bullets by the James Earl Ray rifle was not present on the death bullet." Adopting a tone of advocacy that a prosecutor termed "improper," Brown essentially called for reopening the King investigation. He told defense lawyers and state prosecutors that he wants to see the results of FBI test firings made in 1968, then gave them a week to decide how they intend to lay their hands...
This plot was no joke. Many Commusicals were censored for having a decadent Westernized tone. As an officious official bellows to a young dancer in Carnival Night (U.S.S.R., 1957), "We want to raise the consciousness of our workers. But what do you expect to raise with naked legs?" Only about 40 Soviet-bloc musicals were made in 40 years, from The Jolly Fellows to the glossy, ginchy No Cheating, Darling (G.D.R., 1973). Yet these films brought vigorous fun to an audience starved for it. Their makers deserved to be named Heroes of the Soviet People...