Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in response to the story in The Crimson (March 14, 1994) about the need to curb spending under the Work-Study Program. While the story was fairly accurate, I felt the tone might be misleading and would like to clarify the policy...
...When he was speaking he wasn't just speakingin a completely academic tone," says Afro-AmericanStudies concentrator Ann L. Chang '96, who hasheard West speak. "He would refer to black cultureand he was able to incorporate so many things intowhat he was saying that he was able to get manymore people interested in [his message...
...tone changed abruptly from earlier in the debate, when the candi- dates discussed their similarities...
...recipient of these sentiments -- and of a righteous punch from our hero in the film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...
Usually, these letters are the only way a publication knows that its opinions are being read. Unfortunately, rational, well-argued editorials typically generate little mail and even less interest. When publications change their tone to the more inflammatory and controversial, they do so because it seems that's what the readers want...