Word: toning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halles, "the belly of Paris," 250 market women left their stalls last week, crowded into a schoolroom where a plainly dressed woman, obviously and proudly pregnant, talked about food and coal. Her tone was conversational, her words easy to understand. She knew what interested them, did Jeannette Vermeersch. Listening to her was like a chat around a kitchen table. It was hard to realize that Jeannette Vermeersch might be the next First Lady of France...
...Generalissimo and Madame Chiang flew to Mukden in Marshall's plane. No news about their mission leaked out. The embattled press suddenly adopted a more temperate tone. Experts on Chinese politics sniffed peace in the air. If it came it would be as limited, mixed and tentative as the civil...
Where the Old Vic pre-eminently caught Shakespeare's spirit in Henry IV, in Uncle Vanya they only fitfully captured Chekhov's tone. The direction seemed fussy in some places, off-center in others; two or three roles were misplayed, and in the title role Ralph Richardson, though always a good actor, seemed miscast...
Nurnberg's impresarios had used simpler furnishings, relied on the majesty of the concept to set the tone. The German production had a touch of Wagner - elaborate vaunting of guilt, protestations of heroic innocence. Tokyo's had the flavor of Gilbert & Sullivan...
...Prosecution. Once again Farrell's satire is "like elephants out for a good romp" (as the late New Republic critic Otis Ferguson aptly described it). The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated...