Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...address, which set the tone for the debate, although it also provoked significant disagreement, Helmut Schmidt mentioned no fewer than eight times the need for a "grand strategy" by the Western allies to deal with the Soviet Union. Like other West Europeans, Schmidt is reluctant, at least for the moment, to accept the Reagan Administration's tactics as the basis for such a strategy. Said he: "The deterioration of diplomacy into shouting matches, the idea of economic warfare ... all these, I think, are characteristic of the political crisis that faces the world...
...Lido beach-must be where all the ironworkers got those golden tans. In a neighborhood bar, Alex (Jennifer Beals) and her chums put on a sexy, high-tech floor show that could exist only in Wayne Newton's dreams. One after another, lithe stunners display terrific muscle tone in discreet rock-'n'-roll stripteases. Alex lives in a loft about the size of SoHo, where she rehearses her dream: to win a job with the local ballet company. She gets it, helped by some slow-motion and quick-cut camera effects-and by an unbilled French dancer...
...worthy of reprimand. He sent me to the local police station with a note. The officer on duty read it and locked me in a jail cell for five minutes, saying, 'This is what we do to naughty boys.' " Which, he would say in his most ominous tone, was what he wanted to have carved on his tombstone...
Brown knew about this because he helped McCartney do it. This fact, like all else in the book, is presented with a tone of slightly mocking worldliness that sometimes cracks into cynicism. Yet The Love You Make is the best backstage Beatles book so far, full of deep-dish gossip, much of it brought together for the first time and some of it new. A good deal of the information is inherently dramatic and painful. Brown's compassionate recollection of Brian Epstein as a deliriously romantic, masochistic homosexual and erratic businessman who died of a drug overdose...
...They're just trying to help us out," said George Faux, vice president of the Phi Delta Alpha fraternity. Fraternities were concerned by the tone of the report when it was first released, he explained, but now have come to accept...