Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chesson's response to a call from one of our reporters," I have no statement to make whatsoever," seems to contradict the tone of her letter--in which she writes that had the reporters asked. "I would have told them that I had never filed a complaint of sexual harassment against any faculty members in the archaeology wing...
...Chamber of Commerce would use harsher language to reject the Clinton approach. Earlier in the week, Clinton offered to trade away two key elements of Magaziner's design in order to win support from Republican Governors. But through it all, Magaziner was upbeat. Clinton, he reported with a tone of mock confidence, was at a prayer breakfast across town with religious leaders. "After 14 hours of protracted negotiations," he joked, "Mother Teresa will not endorse the Cooper bill...
That's the tone exactly: Men-are-animals-I-don't-care-if-they're-not-doing -anything-at-the-moment- they're-thinking-about-it-and-they-will-when-they-have- the-chance. What is expressed here is an aversion that is both aesthetic and intimate, a horripilation of the sexual reflex that is perfectly captured by the word creep. Maddy Monkey knows that women now, in 1994, certainly have the language to talk about it. They are doing so. The war is not exactly undeclared...
...ostensible purpose, presented always in a sanctimonious tone, is, well, just phony. The operational purpose is, I'm afraid, far more complicated. Complicated because the explanation lies deep within that contorted, humanistically twisted and evil past trajectory of slavery and racial-caste oppression along which we Blacks have traversed in Western civilization...
...such, but instead tries only to bring into focus the new and sometimes byzantine nuances of male-female relations. Any work that hopes to articulate the plight of the nineties man must, if only for the sake of critical viability, avoid at all cost a wounded or plaintive tone. Clearly, while "Men's Fiction" may have a place in the increasingly political world of writing and criticism, it will have to fight...