Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thompson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield said he thought Dole should have taken a more aggressive tone in his attacks on Clinton but was not surprised that this approach did not materialize...
...this is drama of the talkie, misanthropic kind. Cynthia nags and pleads with Roxanne about "taking care of herself" (birth control); Roxanne in turn twists up her face, obscured by cigarette smoke, to spit out replies in her patented you-stupid-old-slag tone. Maurice's wife, Monica (Phyllis Logan), directs sniper-shots of verbal abuse at Maurice when he comes home on her most physically trying day. Even his old business partner, Stuart (Ron Cook), turns up at his office for the sole purpose of berating Maurice and wistfully whining about still having "the eye" for photography...
...Fortunately, these times are few and far between, and Leigh knows enough to manipulate the overall pace of the movie so as to distribute attention fairly amongst the ones suffering. At one point, when Cynthia begins to meet regularly with her new-found darling Hortense, a previously unseen relaxed tone provides ample variety...
Barnicle then alleges that as we entered the lobby, George Baker benignly asked us: "Can any of you people read English?" The truth is that Baker confronted us and attempted to interrogate us in a hostile, ill-mannered fashion, his tone full of seething rage. Over and over again he furiously questioned our reading skills. Perhaps I'm a bit paranoid about racial issues, but I thought his comments seemed especially inappropriate because our group was over-whelmingly comprised of racial minorities...
Other students echoed McMillen's moderate tone...