Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Self-Help is consistently informed by this ironic tone, Moore deals with a variety of situations and shadings of moods. The first story of the collection and one of the best, "How to Be Other Woman," traces the tha arc of semi-clandestine relationship between a married man a woman: "After four moves, three concerts, and two and a half museums, you sleep with him. It seems the right number of cultural events," How and "Amahl and the Night Visitors A Guide to the Tenor of Love" both deal with the slow death of relationships, from the point...
Urged by his parents to learn to play an instrument, Tsang began playing the piano when he was six. He added the cello at age seven, inspired by a concert which his schoolteacher's son gave. "I fell in love with the tone of the cello," he says, adding, "Besides that, everyone was playing the violin...
...editors believe the remarks attributed to Ford were directed toward the reporter in question and were quoted accurately. Given the humorous tone of the article, the editors did not find it necessary to say that Ford was joking...
...contrast in tone was a recurring feature of Alfonsin's eight-day journey to the U.S., which included his first state visit to Washington since he took office in December 1983. For the White House, welcoming the Argentine President was a chance to salute the hemisphere's democratic transformation, of which Alfonsin, whose election ended nearly eight years of often brutal military dictatorship, is an apt illustration. It was also an opportunity to salve wounds left by U.S. support for Argentina's enemy, Britain, during the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, which the Argentines call Las Malvinas...
...identity through the nation of Israel. There are anecdotes from the old country and stories about the rise from respectable poverty to even more respectable affluence. Goodkind relives his bar mitzvah and metamorphosis from yeshiva boy to "Vicomte de Brag," his pen name on the Columbia student paper. The tone and texture of these recollections are wearily familiar, a point that even the author seems to concede: "The reader has been at big wedding receptions, and if you picture as fancy a one as you ever...