Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the tone of A Violent Act is terse and dispassionate, it contains the elements of classic tragedy: terror, vengeance, catharsis. After the garish denouement, reports the author, there was even a dramatic letdown. As one of the Wright City folk stated, "It was like there wasn't nothing ; important to do anymore." She was wrong. One significant task remained -- giving dimension to people and events -- and Wilkinson has seen...
...things, however, seem unique in Lam's work. One is its pervasive, melancholy tone of dreamy eroticism, metamorphosed into "presences" that would seem monstrous if they weren't essentially benign -- horse-headed women, birdlike deities, masks conflated with breasts but equipped with phallic chins. The second is the persistence of religious motifs that no European artist was likely to grasp but that were of deep significance to Lam -- the symbols of Santeria ceremonies. Why do Lam's women have heads like horses? Not, fundamentally, because of Picasso and Guernica but because in Santeria ceremonies the medium is known...
...most constructive role the Council can play is by setting a tone," Cyr said. "The manager has proven quite capable of responding to that...
Grossman said the conversation with Christopher is emblematic of a renewed friendliness and positive tone in the relationship between U.S. and Israel in the first month of the Clinton administration...
RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY, U.S. LABOR LEADERS ARE convinced that unrelenting hostility from a Republican White House is a major reason why union membership has shrunk to a five-decade low -- 16% of the work force. Ronald Reagan set the tone in 1981 by not only firing illegally striking air-traffic controllers but also decreeing a lifetime ban on rehiring them. Now Bill Clinton has let it be known that he is considering taking back those controllers (maybe 3,000 of an original 11,400 strikers) who still want their old jobs. As further proof that he wants an entirely different...