Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco's De Young Museum, The Adoration of the Golden Calf, does not survive comparison; it is clearly not by Poussin at all, though it shows how fanatically others imitated him. But the unevenness is part of Poussin's development: an artist in the real world, discovering the true tone of his ideas. Young Poussin did not paint plaster gods, and he was not one himself...
...will take him over, take him away. He sings lyrics, he sings rhythms, he sings sounds. "Singing without words is easier," he says. "Consonants get in the way. It's hard to sing as fluidly with lyrics." He will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard, can be the chug of a train or the swoosh of a samba beat. Whether in a Beatles number like Drive My Car or a dazzling reworking of a '60s classic like Good Lovin...
...feast for information-hungry voters, but most nights Americans must subsist on the Lean Cuisine of 30-second spots. During the three-day period before the debate, at least ten different TV commercials for Bush and Dukakis were airing in Toledo. They were all highly negative in tone, except for two Bush ads filled with morning-in-America imagery. Through their use of MTV-style pacing, voice-overs and quick-flash graphics, many of the spots require multiple viewings before a viewer can sort out the hostile charges. Seen for the first time, these ads can inspire strong but disturbingly...
...liking of one high-ranking Iranian, namely Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iranians, he said in a written message last week, must continue to "use their oppressor- burning flames against both the criminal Soviet Union and the world- devouring United States," looking "neither east nor west" for their future. His tone was hardly that of someone contemplating rapprochement -- or gestures designed to win U.S. friendship...
...Ford was almost an afterthought in the Watergate trauma that expelled Richard Nixon. During the hours preceding his presidency, Ford was counseled in the shadows by White House staff, Cabinet officers and Nixon himself. Ford simply moved across West Executive Avenue to the Oval Office and worried about the tone of his first message to the country...