Word: toning
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...such comers as Gore Vidal, Reginald Rose and Horton Foote, he learned a reverence for the word and for the midcentury liberalism it embodied and ratified. Solid, non-Communist, arguably paternalistic, this was a liberalism more social than political. A better word would be humanism. That was the tone and worldview that Mulligan's best films would radiate...
...winter break with a restored sense of confidence.“I think this was huge for our team. We’ve been having kind of a rough start here,” Buesser said. “I think this is really going to set a tone for the new year.”The Crimson will look to carry over its momentum into 2009 when it meets Princeton at home on Jan. 2. “Every win is a big one,” Stone said. We had a pretty tough schedule from the beginning...
...Director Peyton Reed's early features, Bring It On and Down with Love, were in-your-face comedies with a Pop art design scheme; they aimed to get to endearing by going through aggressive. Reed found a subtler tone in his Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston hit The Break-Up, in which both the humor and the despair rose from domestic behavior that, if exaggerated for dramatic effect, was still recognizable. Yes Man straddles those two styles. It ambles along, Judd Apatow-style (and includes a fellatio gag that should have earned the movie an R rating) while affording Carrey...
...Portugal is getting no promises of American assistance for its offer, and there are lingering questions over Portuguese public opinion on accepting detainees. But Anthony Dworkin, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, says it sets the tone for what the E.U. hopes will be a fresh start once Obama takes office. "It is a symbol of Europe's eagerness to clean the slate and forge a different relationship," he says. But the price of European cooperation will be the expectation that from now on the U.S. fight terrorism on the basis of international rules and norms...
Perhaps the most striking thing about Monday's meeting is simply the change in political tone as a new U.S. Administration prepares to take charge. George W. Bush, throughout his presidency, has been roundly criticized for ignoring, often hindering, science - particularly on climate change, as the President was seen as failing to act against greenhouse-gas emissions long after most U.S. scientists had concluded that global warming was indeed man-made. Many scientists were also dismayed by Bush's ban on funding for most embryonic stem cell research and his endorsement of intelligent design being taught in schools alongside evolution...