Word: toning
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...with Susan and then runs through a party yelling, “I am no longer a virgin,” the movie cuts to one of Charlie’s “patients” about to overdose on psychiatric drugs. Countless equally abrupt shifts in tone make the film both uneven and uncomfortable.But the movie ultimately fails not because of poor editing, or lines, or even characters, but because of the cliché elements that permeate all three. It takes what could be an original, stimulating premise and bogs it down with sappy banalities, becoming a mediocre...
...registration to Mississippi sharecroppers, that was radical,” he said. “Doing math isn’t radical. But teaching kids in the bottom quartile as part of a larger political and cultural process, that’s radical.” Despite the theoretical tone of his address, Moses said that the key to social change lies in individual hands-on initiatives, the sort he said formed the basis of the civil rights movement. “It’s about the struggle to close the gap between what America preaches and what...
...little things right, we should be able to come out victorious.”The Saints are riding high from their 19-3 win in which 13 different players tallied scores. Having lost its first four games in 2007, the Crimson needs to set the tone for the season, and it needs to set it this weekend.The team will have some help from new head coach John Tillman, a former assistant coach for the Naval Academy from 1995 to 2007. Tillman is no stranger to the spotlight. From 2004-2007 his team posted the second most wins in Division...
...Such churlishness is sure to play badly in Pakistan, where America's unflagging support for Musharraf is widely despised. Indeed, some officials in the U.S. State Department cringed at the less-than-diplomatic tone Bush adopted with Pakistan's soon to be new government. But the U.S. has valid concerns that political instability could disrupt Pakistan's campaign against extremists along the border with Afghanistan, says one State Department official who requested anonymity. Our position "really does come down to what's going to get our hands on the people that are up there in the northwest quicker...
...best: “Once Mighty Empire, Slightly Used.” It would be far more worthwhile to concentrate on assimilating the multiplicity of the nation’s ethnicities and religions, through tolerance of ideas like Williams’, rather than maintain an unbending nationalistic tone...