Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your favorite role?" queried a student. Jones snapped back, "I don't play favorites. Next question." "What drew you to this role?" was the follow up. "Oliver [Stone] asked me to, and I needed the work." It seemed as if responding was becoming a chore for Jones as his tone conveyed condescension and frustration. But at the champagne reception that followed, he was gracious and patient as he autographed programs for, took photographs with, spoke to and even hugged the crowd of adoring, over-indulgent fans...
This argument misses the point entirely. There is no such thing as a good stereotype; if someone forms a preconceived notion of your abilities and manner from the tone of your skin or the slant of your eyes, you are dehumanized. You become an object, mass produced with certain standard characteristics...
...death represents an important victory against a man who did more than anyone else to set the tone for the drug-related violence that in the past 10 years has cost Colombia the lives of an Attorney General, a Justice Minister, three presidential candidates, more than 200 judges, 30 kidnap victims, dozens of journalists and some 1,000 police officers. Yet it has not concluded the war against the $15 billion-a-year cocaine industry. At most, Escobar's end simply ushers in a new battle against those who have taken over the turf. "While the police hunted him down...
While Administration officials described the President's role as merely "facilitating," AA's chairman Robert Crandall grumbled that he acquiesced because he was leaned on. If that sounded insincere, the feint let Crandall, whose company hemorrhaged more than $10 million for each day of the strike, set a hardball tone for the upcoming arbitration, where both sides will put their cases before a third party...
...notorious Apache warrior with more empathy for Native American culture than ever before, but not without its share of gun battles and scalping parties. (Scalping by the Mexicans, that is; the practice, we are told, was only later appropriated by the Indians in retaliation.) The film has an elegiac tone, opening at a Fourth of July celebration in 1905 attended by an old, sad-eyed Geronimo, by then something of a historical sideshow attraction. In flashbacks we see the education of a rebel, a young warrior who turns vengeful after his wife and baby are killed in a massacre...