Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somber in tone and menacing in content, that announcement by Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov last week was far from unexpected...
Scarface takes its title, plot and comic-grotesque tone from a 1932 film directed by Howard Hawks, written by Ben Hecht and John Lee Mahin and starring Paul Muni as a lightly fictionalized, heavily romanticized Al Capone. That Scarface ran 90 minutes; this one ambles along at nearly twice the length. The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse...
...peer counselors have evidently given a great deal of thought to their approach as well as their tone when presenting information...
...their wedding night Sherry graciously thanks Sharyar in an entrancingly sarcastic tone for marrying her after 1001 nights of making love and after having his three kids, and asks to see her sister. When the wish is granted, she asks Doony "What are they [women] saved for? The patriarchy still remains...there's no victory only unequal retaliation...
Flynn's unifying tone was noticeably absent in Miami. Suarez, 34, a wealthy attorney who once ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the city commission, openly appealed to the Cuban hunger for political control of the city. Little Havana was plastered with signs for "nuestro alcalde" (our mayor), and one particularly crude political cartoon distributed by Suarez's organization portrayed Ferre in a phone booth talking to Fidel Castro. Cuban radio stations conveyed the message that "no one but a Cuban is pro-American enough for our interests...