Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan is of my generation and speaks my language. I do not always agree with him, but your implication that he was "playing politics" when he adopted a religious tone with the Evangelicals is insufferable. It is right that he should pray for what is important...
...week Radiofone Corp., a Metromedia subsidiary, will launch what it calls the world's first pen-shaped pager. It weighs 1.5 oz., costs about $365 and is small enough to be clipped on a shirt pocket. The unit runs on a mercury battery that gives off a warning tone when a new one is needed. In May, Radiofone will introduce a 5-oz., $500 beeper that is practically equivalent to a pocket secretary. It has a window for displaying transmitted information up to 80 characters in length and a computer memory that will store as many as four messages...
...venture--and, according to hints, probably their last for some time both legitimizes and assuages such fears True. Life Itself seems rather a broad topic to attempt visualizing. And the proximity of the eternal verities (birth, religion, contraception, and the life of a waiter) have transformed the original Python tone of genial silliness to satire. But despite these signs of maturity, the group has evidently regained its comic fire--and the comedians roll around in their capacious subject matter with every bit of the old gusto and panache...
...more interestingly, the film avoids a moralistic tone by showing how the grease and leather can serve as an ironical security blanket. In addition to providing release from harsh home life and bleaker prospects, being a greaser safeguards the characters against further pain. When Ponyboy falls for a pretty soc, she encourages him for a while but then admonishes. "If I see you in school, and don't say hello, don't take it personally." Those incidents, coupled with the tragedy which befalls a greaser-turned-Good Samaritan, show why the greaser alliance can become a useful shield...
...turf is the north side of Tulsa: the socs occupy the south. But The Outsiders' sensibility is operatic enough to make the film into another West Side Story. From its first frames, when Stevie Wonder croons a pop ballad over images of suburban sunsets, Coppola sets the tone of poetic realism, Hollywood style. The greasers, with their sleek muscles and androgynous faces, display a leonine athleticism as they move through dusty lots or do a graceful, two-handed vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they can easily...