Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...international community has approached Nigeria in a pleading tone," says Nobel-prizewinning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, now in exile in the U.S. "What's needed is threats." Those could involve seizing the loot Abacha & Co. are believed to have stashed in the U.S. and Europe, or even boycotting Nigerian oil. But such punitive measures will not work without moral pressure from those who have allowed the dictators' behavior to pass unchallenged. Above all, Nigerians crave the respect of the rest of the world. Freeing Obasanjo and the other political prisoners would be a tiny first step in showing they deserve...
Miraculously, what could have tipped over into camp or condescension doesn't, thanks to director Mark Lamos and his energetic cast's affection for the piece's sweetly earnest belief in the promise of America. The tone is whimsically wacky: a cat sings coloratura on Rollerblades; a corrugated moon turns a heart-stopping shade of blue. The whole enterprise, done in kiddie-book colors, is so infectious and wholesome that you begin to think, Move over, Oklahoma...
...intervening years, she has married and had children, including a beloved son who was recently killed while doing relief work in Angola. Maureen is still a simple, good person. Through her, Tubby recovers his essential decency--plus a healthy knee and sexual potency. By subtle shifts in tone, Lodge has grafted a hackneyed case of worldly malaise to material straight out of an uplifting homily. What a conjuring act! Greater love for his characters hath no writer...
...loves. But he quickly finds all is not as secure as he believed. Tubby's attempts to recover make for neither enterprising nor funny reading, says TIME's Martha Duffy. But a meeting with a teenage love redeems both Passmore and the book. "By subtle shifts in tone," says Duffy, "Lodge has grafted a hackneyed case of worldly malaise to material straight out of an uplifting homily...
...miss the bombing's actual 50th anniversary, on August 6th. In a statement, he said, "I hope the world deepens its understanding ofnuclear weapons,and I pray for the repose of their victims and for peace, so that humanity will never experience such a disaster again." The muted tone of the royal journey mirrors Japanese ambivalence towards the various international commemorations of World War II's end, notes TIME Nation Editor Howard Chua-Eoan. "It is one of the complexities of the war -- despite being the aggressors, Japan felt victimized and still does today; to date, there has been...