Word: toning
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...that's a harder attitude for older people - who grew up with more cultural and actual segregation - to accept or to mimic. Part of the problem with Imus' joke was that it was so tone-deaf. "That's some rough girls from Rutgers," he said. "Man, they got tattoos ... That's some nappy-headed hos there." The joke played badly in every community, raising memories of beauty bias (against darker skin and kinkier hair) that dates back to slavery. Tracy Riley, 37, of Des Moines, Iowa, who is of mixed race, said the incident was among her four kids' first...
...Instead, on that day, the fiery Iranian leader muted his tone and appealed for dialogue with the West, evidently hoping to stave off a second U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions over Iran's failure to heed its demand to suspend uranium-enrichment activities. But on March 24, the Security Council unanimously voted to expand the sanctions, and now Tehran has reverted to defiance...
...ending pop fly in left, allowing junior Tom Stack-Babich and senior Brendan Byrne, who had each singled, to score with the tying runs. Princeton starter Steven Miller went the distance, fooling Crimson hitters early and often en route to his first win of the season. Miller set the tone from the get-go, striking out the side on nine pitches in the bottom of the first. “He just threw a lot of strikes,” said junior Matt Vance, who managed a 2-for-4 effort at the plate but was one of Miller?...
...today all came down to our No. 2 doubles team,” Graham said. “They were a point away from going down 7-5. We ended up winning the doubles point, which we didn’t do [on Friday] and that really set the tone of the match.” The Crimson’s singles dominated as well, controlling the match from wire to wire. “I really like our energy, especially compared to [Friday],” Mukundan said. “Nobody looked left or right, everyone was focused...
...experiences are actually more profound than politics,” Robbins says.The cinematic re-creations of the featured writings do not simply show stoic-faced soldiers reading letters home. Instead, the writings vary from poetry and fiction to memoirs and essays, with the accompanying visuals stylized to match the tone and form of the writer, including animation, still photographs, and slow motion video. “We were really just trying to create an aesthetic for each piece that felt like a companion to the way the soldiers would write,” Robbins says.For example, the graphic novel style...