Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will pluck a vagrant "hair" from the film-projector lamp, or abruptly go monochrome because he passed a reading technicolor ends here. "Ain't we in the wrong picture?" asks Red Riding Hood of the wolf in Swing Shift Cinderella. By keying the insane pace, wild exaggeration, mock-cheerful tone and inside references that today define so much of movie and TV entertainment, Avery practically invented pop culture's Postmodernism...
Good or bad, realistic or fantastic in tone, all these movies reflect a profound unease with the present state of our domestic arrangements. At the end of all of them, their resourceful little heroes are safely clasped to loving bosoms, but in every case the piety seems perfunctory, nowhere near as affecting as the troubles the boys have seen...
...Kansas Democrat Dan Glickman, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, "they have to prove and justify their budget much more than in the past." Neither Glickman nor Representative Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, a senior Democrat on the intelligence panel, knows what to make of Woolsey's new, accommodating tone. "When I said those same things to him a few months ago, he flew into a rage," Torricelli says. Woolsey now seems to accept the fact that to confront America's new adversaries abroad successfully, he needs more allies at home...
...doing is taking this wonderfully idiosyncratic thing and homogenizing it into a 'Hollywood' movie. But sometimes, after two or three years and three or four rewrites, the original writer can get ground down and fed up. Personalities can get flinty. The memos take on an edgy tone...
...concert began promisingly enough, with Cliburn firmly projecting Honest Abe's noble sentiments in a Texas twang. And once he wrapped his huge hands around the thundering opening chords of the Tchaikovsky, it appeared that Cliburn really was back. The formidable technique was still there, and the distinctive ringing tone. Cliburn really is a throwback to the piano's Golden Age of blazing virtuosity and emotional extravagance. He remains one of the handful of players -- and just about the only American -- who can conjure up the world of Josef Lhevinne, Rachmaninoff and Horowitz...