Word: tone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oscar turned 80 tonight, and his birthday party, aka the Academy Awards, had the tone and pace suitable to an octogenarian's temper. A few little surprises - Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose for Best Actress, Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton for Supporting Actress - but no big ones that might have sent a murmur through the golden olden dude's nervous system. No Country for Old Men took its four expected awards: Picture, Director (for Joel and Ethan Coen), Adapted Screenplay (the brothers Coen again) and Sepulchral Menace (Javier Bardem). Daniel Day-Lewis, of There Will Be Blood...
...torture. Government malfeasance. Crappy health care. Not to mention one young star who shouldn't be dead, Heath Ledger, and one who might've been, Owen Wilson. (He showed up to read an intro.) Surrounded by these dour subjects, Stewart did his best to keep the tone light. He alluded to the town's relief over the end of the writers' strike by saying, "Welcome to the make-up sex." He confided to the viewing audience what the crowd at the Kodak Theatre does during commercial breaks: "Mostly we sit here making catty remarks about how you look at home...
...game. The Crimson (1-0) faced off against the Crusaders (0-2) yesterday afternoon in the season opener at Jordan Field. Coming off of a 5-11 season plagued with injuries and inconsistency, Harvard was looking to come out of the gate quickly in order to set a different tone from last year. Last season, the Crimson met Holy Cross in its season opener and was barely able to scrape by with a win, 14-13. But Harvard showed a new face yesterday, dominating the entire way and capturing an impressive victory, 19-2. “Going into this...
...with Susan and then runs through a party yelling, “I am no longer a virgin,” the movie cuts to one of Charlie’s “patients” about to overdose on psychiatric drugs. Countless equally abrupt shifts in tone make the film both uneven and uncomfortable.But the movie ultimately fails not because of poor editing, or lines, or even characters, but because of the cliché elements that permeate all three. It takes what could be an original, stimulating premise and bogs it down with sappy banalities, becoming a mediocre...
...registration to Mississippi sharecroppers, that was radical,” he said. “Doing math isn’t radical. But teaching kids in the bottom quartile as part of a larger political and cultural process, that’s radical.” Despite the theoretical tone of his address, Moses said that the key to social change lies in individual hands-on initiatives, the sort he said formed the basis of the civil rights movement. “It’s about the struggle to close the gap between what America preaches and what...