Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the fans love Caray so much, WGN wouldn't dare tell him to tone down his hometown act. Unless the station would like to have its building burned down...
Republican Party chairman Lee Atwater set the tone last June by declaring that since Hispanics account for nearly 50% of the district's voters, electing a Cuban American to the seat was his "No. 1 goal." Shot back Richman, a former head of the state bar association: "This is an American seat." For the rest of the campaign, the opponents bickered over each other's alleged bigotry. Spanish radio stations added to the nastiness by charging that a vote for Richman was a vote for Fidel Castro. Although Richman won a majority of black and Anglo voters, Ros-Lehtinen...
...increasingly defiant tone of the nationalists has provoked the ire of hard-liners in the Soviet leadership. In a harsh blast read over national television, the Communist Party Central Committee denounced the protests as an attempt "to incite the peoples of the Baltic republics to secede from the Soviet Union." The Central Committee criticized local party leaders for "playing up to nationalist sentiments," and called for "resolute, urgent measures to cleanse the Baltic republics of extremism and destructive and harmful tendencies...
...statement did not urge any specific steps for bringing the Baltic states into line, but its ominous tone came as a shock to Soviet liberals. With Mikhail Gorbachev out of Moscow on vacation last week, many wondered if the virulent anti-Baltic onslaught was yet another maneuver by conservative forces to discredit the Soviet leader's political reforms...
...also has a problem with the deejays. "The Top 40 stations won't play it," says Rudman, even though some rap (by Tone Loc, Run-D.M.C., L.L. Cool J and the all-white Beastie Boys, among others) has busted through onto the upper regions of the pop charts. Not all the young action is rap, though. Ziggy Marley, one of Bob's band of children, has got the gift and, to go with it, a light way with carrying a heavy torch. On One Bright Day, the new album he made with the Melody Makers (his younger brother Stephen...