Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Terry's senior and in charge of today's operation, brushes past him to form a little circle of his friends and pray. Praying out loud is the first response to any setback for this group. (Terry often interjects, in the middle of conversation in a normal tone, a groaned "Jesus help us.") The prayer does not deliver a plan, but at least it slows down response. By then police cars are clearing away the roadblocks. After all, the cops' assignment today is to keep people from obstructing access. The pro-choice maneuver, though it fails, has bought time...
...whose producers had to snip a few naughty bits from the Novotny orgy to avoid an X rating in the U.S., is wonderfully performed by Hurt (pained irony), McKellen (droll reserve) and, as Rice-Davies, Peter Fonda's daughter Bridget (comic acuity). The film names names and gets the tone right. ! This is a morally exhausted society, where every woman is a whore and every man a pimp or a trick until proved otherwise. It has no hero or heroine, only a victim: Stephen Ward, who loved trashy women and was betrayed by distinguished...
...surprise was not in the tone of the document: it had been widely tipped to be "devastating," and it was. The charges for the most part had also been well rehearsed. Nonetheless, when the House ethics committee at last released its report on Speaker Jim Wright, the findings of the ten-month investigation still qualified as a bombshell. Bad enough were the accumulated allegations of venality: details of Betty Wright's alleged no-show job, accounts of the Speaker's staff shamelessly peddling his book, the description of a wildly lucrative -- and suspicious -- oil-well deal that few had known...
...Everybody came out strong, taking the first sets," Mulvehal said. "It wasn't that windy today, so everyone felt they had control. It set the tone for singles...
...even if this is an accurate sketch of the campus situation, it does not absolve the council of responsibility of its decision. As a body which in some ways sets the moral tone for student debate on controversial issues, it is the council's obligation to rise above the petty prejudices some individual constituents may harbor...