Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the exception. Twice, she has expressed her resentment of stereotypical expectations of female subordination. And each time, her motivations have been ignored and she has been miscast as the one who promotes insensitive stereotypes. Her response to this has been to tone down her independent-woman persona and become more like June Cleaver than Murphy Brown...
...conservative movement have cuddly nicknames for Floyd Brown -- Boy Scout, Buckwheat, Baby Huey -- because of his deceptively gentle mien and innocent face. So it was hardly unusual last week, as he unveiled a feral TV ad attacking Bill Clinton's character, that Brown said in a mournful tone, "It's a sad state of affairs, but these are things the people have to know about." If neither the press nor the Bush-Quayle campaign will hound Clinton anew about his past, Brown said, someone must...
Then, "radical" left wing groups such asStudents for a Democratic Society (SDS) set thepolitical tone on campus...
...sooner had Thomas arrived than he gravitated to Scalia. The pair not only voted alike in 56 out of 90 decisions, but Thomas can write in language that brings to mind Scalia's occasional let's-you-and-me-scrap tone. "Jurors do not leave their knowledge of the world behind when they enter a courtroom," Thomas scolded the other Justices in one dissent. "And they do not need to have the obvious spelled out in painstaking detail...
...Nineteen million homes had television by 1952, and Dwight Eisenhower didn't need convincing. The predominant feature of Ike's $1.5 million effort (which had as its slogan the nonincumbent's perennial favorite: "It's Time for a Change") was forty 20-second spots called "Eisenhower Answers America." In tone and substance, the same ads have been run by almost every candidate since the '50s (including George Bush and Bill Clinton during this year's primaries) -- softball queries served up by ordinary voters that the candidates hit out of the park. By today's standards, Ike's spots were crude...