Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hearing the first few minutes of The Division Bell, the new album by Pink Floyd that stayed at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for four weeks, a listener has a distinct sense of deja vu. Mysterious rumbling noises on Cluster One, the first song, set a cosmic tone, and then comes What Do You Want from Me, with its languid beat and spare, spaced-out ambiance. It all seems reminiscent of the band's 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon, which sold more than 15 million copies and stayed on Billboard's Top 200 album chart...
...United Nations, which were, at root, to turn back aggression through concerted action. In its place are assurances that the U.S. will rigorously examine U.N. operations before voting for them. While there can be no doubt of the need for more planning and foresight in U.N. operations, the tone of the document would make Woodrow Wilson turn in his grave...
...five albums with saxophonist Donald Harrison (beginning with New York Second Line in 1984) and then two others leading his own quintet (Terence Blanchard and Simply Stated, both released in 1991). In the New York City club scene, he established himself as a composer and soloist with a silvery tone and a gift for majestic phrasing...
Jake narrates the movie in a self-conscious, confessional tone while driving a BMW and wearing a yuppie suit. His monologue, filled with whiny rationalizations for his non-committal lifestyle, is primarily concerned with being "normal". He first bemoans the fact that all his friends have married while he has not, and then goes on to detail exactly how abnormal his life has been. The action of the movie is interspersed with these monologues...
...novel (to which the author restored 400 previously cut pages in 1990), it spans four nights and eight hours and portrays nothing less than the end of the world as we know it. King's horrors, as usual, are firmly rooted in the everyday. The opening scene sets the tone. At a government lab nestled in a quiet California desert community, a security guard gets a panicked alarm: the containment of a deadly experimental virus has been breached. Instead of triggering the security system, the guard races across the manicured lawns, grabs his wife and baby and bolts...