Word: toning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ringing phone doesn't ease the nerves, either. Liu says the Pu Pu does the vast majority of their business in delivery and takeout, and it shows. The phone, located in the front seating area, seems to ring every three minutes, and the loud tone reverberates throughout the restaurant...
...ringing phone doesn't ease the nerves, either. Liu says the Pu Pu does the vast majority of their business in delivery and take-out, and it shows. The phone, located in the front seating area, seems to ring every three minutes, and the loud tone reverberates throughout the restaurant...
...keeps us carnal by remystifying our relationships," trills a male columnist in this month's Mirabella. But Shalit is taking a lashing from feminists of all stripes, like conservative writer Katie Roiphe, whom Shalit criticizes in her book. "She overstates and simplifies," says Roiphe, adding of Shalit's pious tone, "I find it strange to be condescended to by a 23-year-old virgin...
...them competently? Grace Santos (Rosie Perez), a new mother and producer of an a.m. TV show, asks herself this question in the spare moments when she's not auditioning for a nervous breakdown. The film rings true to the desperations that pile on any frazzled working mom; but the tone is wearying, and the film looks peaked, ratty, as if it had been up all night in a bad mood. Perez, a born beguiler, has little chance to charm, let alone relax; even the actress's dimples seem like worry lines. By the end, she and the movie have become...
...voice that is not only able toinduce extreme amounts of pathos, but alsoindividualistic enough to specify the story into abelievable context. That is to say, a voice thatis unique enough in sound to invoke sympathy fromthe audience while also lying somewhere between alyric and a forced soprano in tone...