Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shooting and keeping track of the money. In scenes requiring extended dialogue, they lapse. When carol goes to visit Doc in prison, her demeanor screams "Barbie on a business trip." She seems like she is visiting her agent before a stroll down the runway of a fashion show. Her tone is flat, her acting bland and the expression in her eyes show profound fixation--on the telepromptor. It is only in the sex scenes that we remember that they are married lovers...
...lead, of course, set the tone for the entire article; it seemed to be offered as a sensible man's take on the issue (Carde's tagging as "a retired Naval commander" gave him added stature). When I first saw the piece, I accepted it without much thought, and it thoroughly colored my reading...
This sounds like bedroom farce, but the hero doesn't see it that way. Ira narrates his own ensnarement as he pursues and marries a troubled beauty named Fiona, and his tone, between episodes of drooling, is one of earnest concern. Rightly so, because Fiona counterattacks with Ira's own weapon. She was abused as a girl by her father, and her psychological wounds require constant, repeated assurance that her husband (who lusts for all women) desires her. "Prove it," Fiona demands, often at moments when Ira lacks inspiration. She grows excessively religious and further benumbs Ira with frenzied...
Cellucci set the tone of the discussion with a keynote speech which praised Gov. William F. Weld's '66 record since taking office...
...propose that the Gift planners tone down their sales pitch this time around. Stop having friends solicit friends for contributions and eliminate the Special Committee. Maybe in this way, the Senior Gift can be saved from itself...