Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arikha's work, trying to stabilize a sight in an unpredictable frequency of marks, is all concentration. Supremely honest, unrhetorical painting, it breathes the air of scrupulous anxiety. He has a surer sense of tone-the visual equivalent of natural pitch-than anyone else painting today, and color is second to it; his images are not meant to soothe or win the eye but to build up a record of their action through a labyrinth of nuances. For this reason, a painting like Anne Leaning on a Table, 1977, is as bracing as it is modest. A high stamina...
Born out of a personal concern for the country and his private political despair, Carter's exercise in group-think seemed destined, if successful, to recast his whole approach to leadership, the tone and emphasis of his Administration and, finally, American society. If not successful, then the singular twelve days in July might turn out to be a spectacular dramatization of just what is wrong with Carter's presidency -talk without understanding, programs without the means of implementation. When Carter finally came down to the Potomac valley last week, the question of what had happened was still delicately...
...fancy status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such equipment has already be gun to seem a natural part of existence, inevitable. Says one of them, young Messenger Anthony Edwards of Manhattan: "You got your...
...direct contributor," Anderson says, raised a question: "Were these stories...worth the lives or sanity of people and the incalculable destruction wreaked upon their innocent families?" Confess Anderson; "There are seasons when it seems a close call." Muckrakers find themselves scorned by those Anderson calls "the tone setters of our profession." Having won a Pulitzer, as Pearson never did, Anderson now heads a successful journalistic cottage industry employing 17 reporters. He is seen five times a week on ABC's Good Morning America his columm appears in 942 papers.. He can thus afford to laugh at the fact...
...work has two other major flaws. First, Shiva presents no connecting analysis to link his anecdotes. This approach aggravates the reader's impatience with Naipaul's tone--as he becomes increasingly weary from traveling overland, so the reader becomes more tired of nasty asides...