Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as a love story, the film fails. Part of the problem is the stars, who are too bland, and at times charmless, to inspire much audience empathy. A sadder difficulty is the script's uncertainty of tone. Alex's and Sheila's batty home lives are presented in such outrageous broad strokes that the credibility of the couple's supposedly sincere romance is under mined. There are a few funny peripheral moments, especially those that focus on the mores of video dating, but there are also stale gags about wayward cars and coitus interruptus...
...event, the latest Prize Stories rely heavily on a familiar tone of disillusion. The man whose business fails and wife leaves him, the writer whose wife runs off with a Terry-Thomas Englishman, the couple who discover they enjoy sex more after their divorce, have all passed this way before...
...nudie poster, but I would like to assure your readers that there are many women (and men) who find it offensive. Messrs. Arnold, Strauss and Hill may not acknowledge it, but I submit that they chose an unzipped female figure for their poster to create a leering, sophomoric tone which they thought would attract their 45 year-old-plus classmates back to the scene of their frisky undergraduate lives...
...first match is important in setting the tone, just as the first couple of points in a game or a match are important," Shaw said. "If we start off aggressive and confident, as we finished the spring trip, we should roll...
Although the B.C. women are improving, the Crimson's real problem will come from playing on the Eagles home Astroturl. The women have to tone up their skills on the artificial surface to get ready for the always tough University of Pennsylvania team, which plays on a similar surface...