Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their strong statements differed in tone and substance from what a slight majority of two dozen guards said in interviews at their posts Sunday night and yesterday morning. Most of these guards said they were less concerned with the report's finding and more focused on the 14 recommendations included in the report...
...player and cranks up the volume. "There's a lot of rappers that make a lot of sense," he says. His friend Scott nods reverently. But neither Doug nor Scott can explain what the songs mean to them. While the lyrics may address inner-city issues, the tone resonates among white teenagers like them simply because it's the angriest stuff on the market...
...Miyazawa is a Class C war criminal," said Seiichi Ota, a young member of the Liberal Democratic Party, in a coldly measured tone. Frowns of consternation crossed the faces of the party Old Guard at the head of the table. "The public detests the look and smell of the L.D.P.!" warned Jinen Nagase, a party man from western Japan. Defying the tradition that youth must respect age, junior members of Japan's long-ruling party turned last week's postmortem session about the historic loss at the polls into a brawl of nasty taunts and fraying tempers. It was time...
...giants on the stage were the main attraction, however. At the shows opening, Michael Stone introduces his character, John, with an uncanny ability to make his face seem more insane than the character he is playing. Although he seems to start with a stiff, unnatural pose and tone of voice, it becomes apparent as the show progresses that stiffness belongs to the character and not the actor. That stiffness plays an important part in ironing down the characters' drug addiction and even making them funny...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...