Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't even count on his music to be congruous with much he'd done before, either in tone or quality. He reveled in irresolution, letting himself drift with the fates -- or so it seemed. One of the many wonders of Across the Borderline is Nelson's paean to entropy, Still Is Still Moving to Me, which begins, "I swim like a fish in the sea all the time/ But if that's what it takes to be free I don't mind/ Still is still moving to me." But, as this album demonstrates, what might be running in place...
They had tried to break him down, switching tactics midway through the siege. At first they were respectful. That approach got 37 people out, including 21 children, before it stopped working. Then their tone switched to disdain, even mockery, and the harassment campaign of lights and noises began. "It was not there just to irritate them and make their lives miserable," said agent Byron Sage. "It was to keep them on guard, to keep them so they weren't at a fine-honed edge...
...female Inside Edge staff member said being a woman working for a men's magazine was "weird" at first, but that "they've given us a lot of power to tone things down...
Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern do nothing. They spend their time waiting, watching others, now sucked into the hurly-burly of the Danish court, now spat out. Director Arzhang Kamarei generates this hopeless tone from the outset: to the thundering strains of Mission Impossible theme song, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern race furiously round the stage on hobby horses. This wild dance builds to a galloping climax as the music ends, and then...nothing. As always, R and G rush around achieving diddly squat...
...regret the partisan tone of the rhetoric of the last several days," Clinton said. "If every last issue that comes up, just because the President recommends it, becomes the source of a filibuster in the Senate, or, frankly, attracts only members of my own party, I don't want that...