Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Here, see what you can make out in Russian!" yelled one of the crew members, shoving a pair of earphones into my hands. The urgent tone of his voice snapped me out of my drowsiness...
There should have been a dramatic crux: Macon's desertion of Muriel for an attempted reconciliation with his wife. But the tone and dynamics of this scene are indistinguishable from the rest of a film that looks as if it had been shot in a brownout. Depression, obviously, is not amusing. But depressives, as the history of humor from Mark Twain to S.J. Perelman proves, can be. Anyway, it should be possible to analyze an illness without falling prey...
...next morning, however, the Crimson more than redeemed itself with its resounding victory over Bowdoin. Harvard racked up four goals in the first period to set the tone for the rest of the game. Lind tallied two of the goals, with help from Ginny Simonds and Whyte. Trotman and Albright also added scores in the first frame...
Bush also met with Michael Dukakis last week, but the tone was different. Paying a loser's traditional courtesy call, Dukakis was clearly the past. Jackson offered himself as the future, and by treating him almost as an equal, Bush lent cynical credence to the claim. "This is beyond our wildest dreams," gloated a Bush assistant. "Who could ask for a better opening to the '92 re-election effort? Both sides have a vested interest in pumping up Jesse as the Democrats' leader...
...recent NBC movie about the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, was altered at network insistence to soften its charges of a U.S. Government cover-up. Midnight Caller, already the target of protests from homosexual groups over a segment on AIDS airing next week, was forced to tone down the anti-capital punishment message in another upcoming episode. The network menu may be getting spicier, but bland still seems to be the flavor of choice...