Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles reflected yesterday's tone by quoting fellow Brit W.H. Auden. The dean said first-years should not allow competition with other students to be the standard by which they measured themselves...
...series' bulging length and rhapsodic tone become wearying, even for a diehard fan. (It's difficult to imagine a nonfan sitting through anything close to the program's full 18 hours.) Baseball is rich in drama, irresistible as nostalgia and, yes, an instructive window into our national psychology. But it is, after all, a game. The lofty rhetoric of The Civil War seemed perfectly suited to the epic subject; in Baseball everything from Carl Hubbell's screwball to Mickey Mantle's bad knees is given the same sense of moment. Hard-hitting Mel Ott, we're told in portentous tones...
...harassment, John Lithgow hams it up with overripe accents -- the protagonist's Hispanic lawyer seems to come from somewhere outside Transylvania. But on the other hand, Brad Pitt delivers Cormac McCarthy's hardscrabble prose in The Crossing with a twangy stoicism that perfectly reflects the novel's tone...
...mastered the guise of the Irish-turned-Italian Mafioso in "Goodfellas," was also nothing extraordinary. He plays the recently widowed Manny Singer who is busily trying to piece his life back together after his wife's death. Symbolic of the glazed-over, plastic, "Leave It to Beaver"-esque tone of this film, Manny Singer writes the music and lyrics for toy company advertisements. Perhaps you've always wondered who did this sort of thing, but the 1950,s setting makes this film cheesy, alleviating the more apparent, and perhaps interesting, struggle for racial equality and the problems involved with cross...
...lineup sure to attract attention, the foursome cannot overcome their natural soloistic inclinations. To me, this comes across more as a quadruple concerto than as chamber music. They clearly try to make an effort at ensemble, but Stern refuses to bend his pitches down and to liven his dry tone, Ax hardly ever thinks of balance, Laredo gets lost in the acoustic din when not playing his solos, all while Yo-Yo Ma tries to play down the middle...