Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GREGORY'S GIRL (Harvard Square, Sunday) may have been Scotland's answer to the TSF, but its unrelentingly upbeat tone draws more on the pre-libido period in American cinema than from the id-crazed rantings of the genre's second R-rated period...
...Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee, is releasing a revised Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. It is shorter than the first draft (about 40,000 words vs. more than 50,000), more tightly reasoned and more generous to opposing viewpoints. But it does not soften the tone or thrust of the bishops' main message. The new draft, like the first, calls the presence of widespread poverty in the midst of American plenty "a social and moral scandal that must not be ignored." The document notes that 14.4% of the U.S. population lives below the official poverty line...
...kicking in the stuff." The richest memories have become images of menace. "That was a very nice home there," says Leistner, the town's final mayor, as she drove through Times Beach recently. "That whole wing was a game room paneled with imported teakwood." Suddenly her tour-guide tone changes: "The man who lived in that home has had a lung removed. I remember the minister's wife who lived next door there had a miscarriage. The lady who lived here, she had two miscarriages. Kidney cancer over there, and the home here, the wife died in childbirth. This next...
Lucky for Lou, he's usually seen as the elusive figure in the eyes of the Velvet vortex. He wrote the songs, he set the tone, he was the first to wear pre-Ray Ban black shades. So the newfound love for the Velvet Underground has spilled over to Lou Reed, which naturally means that someone--namely the record companies--cashes...
...other words, anyone even casually acquainted with Kilson's political and intellectual history recognizes immediately that he is a figure of considerable complexity. His intuitive and scholarly comprehension of obscure dialects of black life is frequently brilliant and shrewd. Yet his analysis has also been, on occasion, intemperate in tone and mistaken in judgment. In our view, however, his rich insights are unquestionably worth the accompanying imperfections. For example in the recent series of exchanges with black students we tend to concur with much of the substance of his critique. It is true that many black students do not intelligently...