Word: toning
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...opening paragraph, betrays a nostalgia for a kinder, gentler moviescape, back when stars spoke love in whispered metaphors and a leading lady knew how to get out of a limo without exposing her crotch. But that notion of refinement was a fiction too. It happened to be the prevailing tone of A-list movies of the 40s that lingered through the 50s. Kerr was not some elevated being who allowed herself to be photographed. She was an actress, convincingly playing these roles. And though her career was never marked by scandal, off-camera she could be as earthy...
...Jewish context. The avid curiosity it provoked helped launch a thousand Kabbalah classes. Kamenetz's follow-up, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters, won the National Jewish Book Award. But his latest offering, The History of Last Night's Dream, diverges in content and tone. TIME's David Van Biema wondered whether he was straying from his fan base...
...general and Iraq in particular--certainly Big Government exercises--are projects Republicans tend to be more enthusiastic about. Likewise the criminal process: Republicans tend to want to make more things illegal and to send more people to jail for longer. Republicans also consider themselves more concerned about the moral tone of the country, and they are more disposed toward using the government in trying to improve it. In particular, Republicans think religion needs more help from society, through the government, while Democrats are touchier about the separation of church and state...
...Prize winner Paula Vogel, were featured on a panel. In tune with the bright red and purple décor of the venue—once the site of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre—the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) set a lighthearted and celebratory tone to the night. Director of the OFA Jack Megan commended Faust for her “genuine interest in the arts” in his welcoming speech before inviting her to the stage to deliver opening remarks. Faust conveyed her excitement in seeing the “new spaces...
Deep within the bowels of the building at 10 Holyoke Street dangles a cardboard poster bearing the words, “Danger: Live Steam!” Set among gently whirring machinery and a maze of gleaming white pipes, the excitement of the sign’s tone is a much more apt description of what is going on upstairs...