Word: toning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this is true than you would believe." The story may be all-true, yet as scripted by Peter Straughan and directed by Grant Heslov (co-screenwriter on the Clooney-directed Good Night, and Good Luck), it's hard to believe. The movie strains to find a coherent comic tone; it smashes into the wall of plausibility it's trying to run through. (See pictures of George Clooney at play...
...paternity. The family vibe here is as tense as in earlier films by Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) and Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) but with a stalwart, creative dad who will somehow make things right. There's a similarly fruitful tension between the movie's hip, careless tone and the painstakingly retro stop-motion technique. The result is not a collision but a concerto and, for audiences, harmonic bliss. (Read "George Clooney: The Last Movie Star...
...Battle Studies,” Mayer no longer sports the sheepish grin and earnest tone that brought humor to otherwise disheartening songs like the 2001 hit “Why Georgia.” On “War of My Life,” he mourns, “I’m in the war of my life / I’m at the core of my life / Got no choice but to fight till it’s done.” With his new set, Mayer digs deeper into his own soul to expose...
...Studies” proves that Mayer has left behind the heartthrob crooning of “Your Body is a Wonderland.” His new album tackles far more serious, personal issues, and as aresult, he has produced some of the best tracks of his career. Ultimately, the tone behind Mayer’s songwriting can be summed up by a lyric on the first single, “Who Says,” on which he sings, “I can’t remember / You looking any better / But then again I don?...
...origin as a racial slur. He merges African American music with Chinese opera and uses Duke Ellington-style swing in musicals and operas featuring female vampires, mythical monkeys, and now, green earth monsters. His music is arresting, indefinable, and unquestionably dramatic, aggressive in its motifs but always expansive in tone...