Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff, while well-meaning, has adopted a tone that assumes that the brunt of child care ought to fall on women, with the exception of monetary support...
...props are ten chairs, varying wildly in artistic design, that are "introduced" by the cast members in the show's humorous opening segment. The chairs are moved around the stage constantly and are integrated into almost every number, functioning as a stable counterpart to the show's quickly changing tone. The costumes also mimic the progress of the show, as each actor occasionally puts on additional layers and styles of clothing to fit the mood of the particular piece...
...phone number, and soon I'm talking to a man in the team's media relations office. I begin to explain my interest in a few minutes of phone time with Zimmer, but the guy cuts me off. They only take faxed requests, he says, and immediately his tone tells me that I'm not the first person to call about scheduling an interview. Once he receives my fax, he explains, he'll forward it to the media liaison who is on the road with the team in Seattle...
...turns out that Robert B. Reich, the former Secretary of Labor and soulmate of Bill Clinton, kept a diary. That's unusual in the subpoena-happy capital, and so is the tone of his kiss-and-shrug memoir--a bittersweet but ultimately forgiving account of his four years in Washington. In Locked in the Cabinet, to be published this month by Knopf, Reich describes his constant appeals to Clinton's conscience against the stronger pull of such personalities as then Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and presidential adviser Dick Morris...
...book. It's a long-weekend affair; the book needs time to sit for a while. Pinsky divides the book into three parts, each part an aspect of the American experience: "Its Many Fragments," "Its Great Emptiness," "Its Everlasting Possibility." This should give you some sense of the tone...