Word: tone
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Neither squad could get the best of the other in setting a very physical tone in the first frame. Besides the opening five minutes, there was never a two-minute stretch during which both teams skated full strength...
...there was no shaking this off. The goal was a tone-setter, and the evening didn’t get better...
...time-honored rituals of campaign damage control, by Tuesday his staff was looking to perform an extreme makeover, no easy feat for a candidate who is selling authenticity. He pulled down his attack ads, rolled out his wife as a softening agent and assumed a new and humble tone: to his mantra "You have the power," he added "I need your help." Hoarse from a cold, he planted his feet on the stage of the peach-and-cream Claremont Opera House with his hands in his pockets and an all but visible leash, to make sure...
...channel's success is in capturing the tone of Gen X nostalgia, at once snide and affectionate. Executive vice president Michael Hirschorn calls VH1's focus not "nostalgic" but "retro," which he defines as less "sentimental and teary." (Although one could reasonably define it as "I am so not old enough to be nostalgic.") "The channel had been in a baby-boomer mode, which was very serious about music," he says. "We turned that into 'Let's have fun with pop culture...
...Pastoral without Philip Roth's refining fires. Toward the end, Michael hears an old song on his car radio. "He liked the way the singer kept her voice so plain and ordinary," Tyler tells us, "too intent on expressing her sadness to concern herself with effect." That's the tone Tyler is generally after herself: limpid, understated, diminuendo. But the distance from there to becalmed isn't far. And this time she goes the distance...