Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rose to his greatest challenge by doing well in his debate with Ferraro. "I was talking facts; she was talking emotion," he boasted afterward. Actually, Bush was far more keyed up than the normally voluble Ferraro, who adopted a measured, almost subdued tone. Bush nearly squandered his debate performance, however, by refusing to back away from his erroneous assertion that his Democratic opponents had said that American Marines killed by terrorists in Beirut had "died in shame." He was overheard claiming that he had "tried to kick a little ass" in the debate, then made light of the gaffe, apparently...
...obviously at odds with ordinary people. The Democratic Party's frustration with its rank and file was evident when Geraldine Ferraro went before autoworkers and students in the Midwest and West and became almost accusatory in her professed bafflement over why they preferred Reagan. Ferraro's tone suggested that she viewed her listeners as hapless innocents beguiled by a pitchman into breaking their longstanding contract with the Democrats. Ferraro had discovered the world beyond the Hudson and Potomac rivers...
...Washington, the State Department, which maintains that it did not try to influence the outcome of the election, adopted a harshly critical tone in assessing the result. "It wasn't a very good election," said Department Spokesman John Hughes. "It was just a piece of theater for the Sandinistas." On Tuesday evening, U.S. intelligence sources told TIME that a Soviet ship due to tie up in a Nicaraguan port was carrying twelve shipping crates of the type used to transport high-performance MiG-21 jet fighters. The Soviets, they reported, last week had already delivered more than half...
...European repertoire. His love of contemporary music is already clear in his Cleveland programming: on a U.S. tour last month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which he leads with crisp economic gestures. A propulsive but disciplined reading...
...vanished tone of 18th century landed society-fenced about with deadly capital statutes, but also bound intimately together by chains of patronage running vertically through the classes-that enabled Stubbs to paint his admirably varied theater of land work, from haymakers to grooms, trainers and jockeys, without the least sign of overt condescension. Across the Channel, patrons liked pictures of drunken, vomiting peasants in the Dutch manner: a class zoo. Not in England, where Stubbs painted the cult of the horse with rapt attention, as a ritual focus of many skills and several mutually dependent classes...