Word: tuned
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...even so dogged a digger as Cannon cannot totally excavate all the paradoxes. How a politician so adept at the techniques of public leadership and so closely in tune with Everyman's dreams could habitually divorce himself from the realities of governance remains elusive. Cannon concedes frustration and ambivalence. In one passage he reports his best sources' belief that "Reagan usually operated on the basis of sound instincts and common sense." Later, the same inner circle sees its task as "protecting the Reagan presidency from the clear and present danger of Ronald Reagan...
...bear to perform it. Cochrane provides one of the most moving moments of the evening when he unexpectedly performs the work in Holiday's place, further undoing distinctions between performance and production, drama and musical concert. Cochrane's solemn sound, raspy and bellowing, is ideally suited to the mournful tune...
Three years ago, depressed first-year students who were randomized into Lowell House sang a song called "Lowell's Bells"--to the tune of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells"--to voice their displeasure at their new home. Those were the days of the Phi Beta Kappa quads and a house library open so many hours that it gave Store 24 a run for its money. In those days at Lowell House, every night was a Tuesday night...
...berating the four victims as "not fit to be alive" and then repeatedly punching them, despite their denials of homosexual conduct. "She asked me why do I make friends with white people?" said Kgase. At one point, he said, she struck him with a whip, "humming a tune and dancing to the rhythm." Kgase testified that some of the worst beatings were reserved for James Moeketsi ("Stompie") Seipei, 14, whom Mrs. Mandela accused of being a police informant. The youth was later found dead. Jerry Richardson, head of Mrs. Mandela's bodyguards, has been convicted of the murder...
...literati. In short, Kilmer is not Jim, and his casting denies The Doors the chance to be a meditation on the lure of sexual power. What else can the movie be? Morrison and his band were not political pathfinders, and musically they were close to negligible, with one compelling tune (Light My Fire) and an ambitious, pretentious attitude. The Doors had a good world when they died -- their albums sell almost as well now as they did in the group's brief eminence -- but not enough to base a movie...