Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While offering provocative insights on campus feminism, The Morning After is crippled by clunky prose and Roiphe's self-absorbed, sometimes jarringly cynical tone. A Princeton graduate student, Roiphe relies heavily on personal anecdotes in this book, resulting in an uneasy mix of research and reminiscence...
Ironically, that cautious tone is echoed bysome of HMC's most diehard critics. Says oneformer management company official, who asked notto be named, "You can't demonize them for one badyear, nor can you deify them for one good year."Crimson File PhotoJACK R. MEYER...
Ironically, that cautious tone is echoed bysome of HMC's most diehard critics. Says oneformer management company official, who asked notto be named, "You can't demonize them for one badyear, nor can you deify them for one good year."Crimson File PhotoJACK R. MEYER may have reason to smile thisyear...
...trouble finding stars willing to appear in it until Richard Gere led a parade of big names who signed on -- among them Steve Martin, Anjelica Huston, Lily Tomlin, Phil Collins, Ian McKellen and Matthew Modine. Later, director Roger Spottiswoode clashed with HBO over changes made without his approval to tone down the film's portrayal of gays in the promiscuous pre-AIDS era. Added to this was the provocative subject matter: Shilts' harsh critique of the U.S. government and the medical establishment for their slow response to the AIDS crisis...
...with recent American feminist art, but not much. You could call hers a European sensibility, meaning that it is open to nuance and, whatever its references to the politics of the suffering body, to humor. It is oblique, magical and ironic, and has none of the in-your-face tone of complaint (men are colonizing thugs, women are victims, and a display of wounds is all you need to make a piece of art) that renders the work of so many of her transatlantic sisters so monotonous...