Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation, but he preserves his image as the little guy throughout. Plimpton's patrician background and best-seller success might belie his little-guy stance, were it not for the unmistakable honesty of the self-doubts, fears, vacillations, and failures which he reveals in a detached and slightly bemused tone. Plimpton's little guy lives at a more enduring level than rich or poor. Plimpton trying to gain entrance to Ali's restricted quarters, chatting with Hemingway, or catching flak from Malcolm X, is always the moved one and never the mover. He lands where the buffets of fate...
...Sheppard's review of the new Dylan Thomas biography [Oct. 31], he mentions the '30s and '40s as being the time of underpaid poets. The tone seems to suggest that this is a thing of the past...
...even brushed against each other for years. In The Good and the Bad he is after larger game. As the title implies, he is meditating on morality this time, a subject not entirely suited to in temperament. Lelouch fecklessly insists on making a film that weirdly has the tone-most of the time-of a light entertainment...
...pity of how people behaved during the German Occupation. But we are probably not yet ready for something that too often verges on the bouncy in dealing with an inescapably tragic era. There are good performances and affecting moments in this movie, but it is deaf to the basic tone of its historic moment...
...perceives it. The main action in the play, excitingly enough, rotates about the writing of the book, complemented by flashbacks. Erdelyi hires a young college student, well played by Paul Jackel, to assist him, and the two suffer through an alternately close and cold relationship. But just why the tone of the relationship varies so is never quite clear...