Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zine's primary focus on raunchy sex, however, undermines this melodramatic tone. Here, too, the writing is uneven. The first piece is entitled "Stiff" and relates how a college student is overcome with attraction for a cadaver in the bio lab and indulges in necrophilia. Knowing the area above the corpse's groin would be "messy with incisions," she appreciates his legs as "muscular and hard as a rock, although rigor mortis was probably more responsible than exercise." Much to her delight, "the penis [was] still intact." While topics such as necrophilia, bestiality, and sadomasochism may sound intriguing, the poorly...
...Time Indefinite," we catch up with him at his annual family reunion in North Carolina announcing his engagement to his wife, Marilyn Levine. During the course of the film, McElwee's life unfolds to show several tragedies in succession. The film's tone changes from one of celebration to one of mourning for the death of several family members, before reverting to the celebratory tone of his maid's fiftieth wedding anniversary...
...conversation with Mr. Walter on the evening of January 3, 1994, Mr. Walter indicated that the situation had improved and that Mrs. Walter now has a complaint about only a very specific tone," the letter said. "Mr. Walter says he does not hear this tone in his house...
...European painting. The assembled works provide an overview of the transition that was taking place across the Western world from traditional eighteenth century portraiture, through a school of the national landscape, to proto-Impressionsim. Kobke's Copy of Eckersberg's Portrait of Thorvaldsen (1828) boasts an intense dramatic tone, vaguely reminiscent of David or other French portraitists of the era. Kyhn's landscapes suggest the influence of Corot. To complete the simultaneous development, Kroyer's blurry seascape in Self-Potrait Painting on Skagen Beach (1907) has overtones of similar works by Monet...
...right then, let's take Albert Brooks at his word and not mince superlatives. I'll Do Anything is better than the Mona Lisa. It's also pretty darned fine as a movie, though it takes a while to find its pace and tone. You won't miss the songs; this is not the husk of a musical. It is a lovely, wayward comedy in high Jim Brooks style, with all his pinwheeling wit and edgy ruminations. Who needs production numbers? I'll Do Anything still sings...