Word: toning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were no insurmountable problems," a senior adviser to Muzorewa said in amazement at the pervasive mood of sweet reason. Even the militant Mugabe confessed that he was "cautiously optimistic" about the possibility of a settlement and graciously took Muzorewa off his personal list of "war criminals." His conciliatory tone was shared by fellow Guerrilla Leader Nkomo, who told TIME'S William McWhirter, "I would like everybody to be given a chance to contribute to a rea-soned-out solution of the problem. It is not the conference that has changed things. It's the circumstances that have...
...elicit some sympathy for Eva (Patti LuPone) and to present her as something of a scrappy feminist. It begins with her funeral and ends with her death. In flashback, she flees from her barren pampas birthplace to glamorous Buenos Aires, arriving as the amorous baggage of a cornball bari tone guitarist (Mark Syers). She soon acquires a sardonic shadow, a one-man Greek chorus in the anomalous figure of Che Guevara (Mandy Patinkin). Che dogs every step of Eva's checkered ascent through calculated boudoir encounters and forays into stage, films and radio un til she meets, seduces...
...audiences can grant the picture its imaginative leaps, and go with its surprising tone, they will be pleasantly rewarded. The wit derives mainly from Writer-Director Meyer's wry confrontations between Futurist Wells and a world that does not in any way match his optimistic projections of things to come. Whether trying to adjust to the automobile, a Big Mac or a Mickey Mouse telephone, Wells is a consistently appealing figure. After playing lots of reprehensible characters (A Clockwork Orange) McDowell exhibits a first-rate change-up. Even more surprising is Mary Steenburgen as the junior bank officer...
Time After Time has, in addition to its delicate tone, more than adequate suspense. It also makes a worthwhile if not highly original point, stated most clearly by Warner as he flips from one violent image to another on television: "Ninety years ago I was a freak; today I'm an amateur." For Meyer, author of the bestselling The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, it is a promising and interesting directorial debut, requiring a deftness that has eluded more experienced moviemakers. We are in his debt for a bold idea skippingly brought...
...simply read me the formal North Vietnamese position, publicly available for months. There was no point in continuing the meeting. Le Duc Tho was not even stalling; he was laying down terms. As I got up to leave, Le Duc Tho took me aside and said in the tone of a fellow conspirator that his side's prospects were "good...