Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jarrett is somewhat too syrupy here for my taste, too confident that we each have a voice of our own and something worth saying. Yet, there is an edginess in his tone that saves him from self-help literature and being anthologized in the Utne Reader. Listen again: "there's more to it than marketing themselves." This is sound advice from a man who has sold gazillions of albums...
...approach G.O.P. strategist Ken Duberstein and House Speaker Newt Gingrich with the idea of writing a budget together--a prospect the Republicans found laughable after fighting a bruising campaign over that very issue. "I don't think it was being naive," Raines contends. "I think it was setting a tone...
...despite his evident sincerity about his work, Lucas strikes an oddly dispassionate tone when asked about the content of his movies, or why he thinks Star Wars endures so splendidly. "The only thing I can think of is the fact that it's based on ideas and themes that have been around for two to three thousand years when you get down to it." Storytelling does not, apparently, come easy to Lucas; he says it has been more of a learned, or willed, talent (critics might say that shows in Star Wars' comic-book derivativeness). After an initial burst...
...annual budget letter, sent to the Faculty on Feb. 4, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles reported that the College's finances should "evince only mild concern," in contrast to the tone of "deep alarm" that characterized the letter five years...
...performances are also big; nearly everyone in this Act-O-Rama gets a screaming scene. The tone is set by Roth, the Brit of choice for those directors who think Gary Oldman just doesn't push it far enough. It's cartoon work, really (imagine Henery Hawk trying to be the Tasmanian Devil), but fun to watch. And Shakur, as the sensible guy, plays nicely off Roth. He is both Stretch's keeper and the film's conscience. "When gettin' high becomes a job," he muses, "what's the point...