Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King often lapses into a conversational tone. After all, he is a conversationalist, a veteran talk-show host who gets paid--and paid well--to speak. The book is at its best when it becomes casual and King sounds as if he's speaking...
...anecdotes and memories is: Why did 45-year-old Larry King, who talks about himself to millions of Americans five nights a week, write a premature autobiography at all? Publicity for the show is one obvious reason. But there must be more--and it is apparent in King's tone both throughout the book and on the air: Larry King is an egotistical semi-star who only lives in the shadow of the Frank Sinatras and Jackie Gleasons and Lenny Bruces with whom he has mingled throughout his career...
While the subject matter may seem grim and violent, the movie's tone is actually quite gentle, because Schepisi and his writer, William D. Witliff, concentrate on the legend itself. The basic human passions of hatred, bloodlust and revenge are really only minor catalysts in the world of Barbarosa, there to fuel the ritual. The legend of Barbarosa is far greater, far more important than Barbarosa's actions, than even Barbarosa himself, as he has chosen his successor in Karl...
...cannot forget that criticism of Israel itself frequently stems from prejudice against Jews in general," Weiner writes. His moderate tone helps obscure the McCarthyist tactic of his article--if you can't refute an opponent, identify the critic with some obnoxious symbol. McCarthy used red paint against anyone he went after; in today's debate, the shadow of the swastika is cast on those who speak out against Israel...
Such missteps are rare. The bulk of the show-bulky indeed at three and a quarters' hours running time-is authoritative despite a setting and idiom which differ emphatically from the Shakespearean, the modern, or anything yet between the two. This Verona, though at times unsubtle suburban in tone, also glitters with an extra vagina sense of the exotic...