Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already lost its first match to Boston College the night before, 3-2, but had followed with a win over Saint Peter's from New Jersey earlier in the day. The Portland win gave the Crimson a 2-1 overall match play record and the tournament title, setting the tone for what the team hopes will be a winning season...
...since Cellucci has stepped into his State House chambers, he has acted in a nearly belligerent tone with attempts to bring back the death penalty. The governor also supports stronger use of teacher tests and the appointment of James Peyser, a vocal advocate of school choice, to chair of the state Board of Education. Cellucci has not been without his critics...
...horror classics like Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Evil Dead, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, the new film makes a virtue of its seeming artlessness. A picture's dead air, ragged acting and extreme shifts of emotional tone throw the viewer off balance. This is not your standard Hollywood movie, whose technical finesse reassures even as it excites. The bizarro indie horror films seem unmediated, out of control, a blurred or garish snapshot of lunacy. It's as if the footage had been found, a year later...
Until a Colorado grand jury indicted them for racketeering, JAMES and REGANA RAPP ran a $1.5 million-a-year business dredging up and selling confidential data on celebrities. BRUCE WILLIS, CALISTA FLOCKHART, JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY and even the Columbine victims were marks for the couple's Touch Tone Information Acquisition, based in suburban Denver. The Rapps, according to authorities, assumed a variety of false identities to filch bank, phone, credit-card and stock-transaction records. Now investigators are seeking to zero in on the end users of the information, who are believed to be news media, prominent among them...
...Then in a tone reminiscent of a Las Vegas boxing announcer, Simon proudly proclaims: "Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome...Mr. Bob Dylan!" The crowd roars in fernetic expectation. This was a surprise, partly because, for the greater part of the summer, I have been surrounded by anti-Dylan enthusiasts and militants. I was afraid that my defense of Dylan could be likened to a musical Steward's Folly (but let's just remember how much oil was found in Alaska). Although, in my childishly ego-centric way, I could never understand why Dylan's music...