Word: toneed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writing about being a virgin at 25, one woman helps the reader feel to what extent her virginity has controlled her life by filling her essay with passion. Another contributor, also writing about losing control of his life, he with the help of heroin, allows himself to take a tone that is cooler and more detached because his experience is more commonly expressed and understood. A black writer, examining the conflict he feels between his race and his middle class upbringing, writes his essay largely in the second person, thereby splitting himself in two so as to allow...
...stimulus for all this furious merging is the growth of competition from nontelephone companies. A decade ago, most Americans picked up their phones to hear a dial tone linking them to one of the Baby Bell companies. But in recent years that monopoly has slipped away. And in the eyes of traditional telecom bosses, the antidote is conglomeration, a kind of circle-the-wagons strategy they hope can hold off competition's inevitable charge. The approach has roots in an earlier boom time. In the 1920s the nation's railroad firms consolidated in a vain attempt to stave off competition...
...only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy, but its ideas are obvious and it lacks what those coarse series do at least offer--humor, life, energy. Weighed down by the tone of dead-serious satire, the jokes on Linc's usually land with a thud...
...nursing-home industry reacted coolly to Clinton's punitive tone, saying a "collaborative effort" is needed to solve the problems. "Enforcement activity alone is not the answer," said Paul Willging, executive vice president of the American Health Care Association. "In fact, a single-minded emphasis on enforcement will ultimately hurt quality." But the GAO report argues that many nursing homes have become dangerous places largely because they are understaffed--and underregulated. Nursing homes spend 2 out of every 3 dollars on payroll, so the most tempting way for them to increase profits is to cut personnel. And the Federal Government...
Maxwell's nuanced new CD might not make as big a chart splash as Hill's, and it might be dismissed by some as overly subtle. However, the album's subdued tone shouldn't be misread as timidity. Maxwell wants to draw you in, cast a spell, and by singing in falsetto, by crooning and cooing, by whispering his way through songs, he forces listeners to really listen, to confront the emotions in his songs rather than avoid them through the cathartic escape hatch of volume. One song, the gorgeous, unhurried Submerge: Til We Become the Sun, is an abstractly...