Word: tuned
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...TIME: A portion of your audience is pre-sold on your politics, but another portion is undecided. Is your finger-in-the-eye style the best way to change minds, or does it give people a reason to tune...
Dear old songs forgotten too soon, They had their day, and then we threw them away. And without a sigh we would pass them by For some other, newer tune. So off to a happier home they flew, Where they're always loved and they're always new. -P.G. Wodehouse, "The Land Where the Good Songs...
Then there are the messages aimed at kids. What parent today wants to raise an entitled prince or a helpless damsel? Seeing Snow White turn from cream puff into kick-ass fury in Shrek the Third--launching an army of bluebirds and bunnies at the bad guys to the tune of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song--is more than a brilliant sight gag. It's a relief to parents of girls, with Disney's princess legacy in their rearview mirrors and Bratz dolls and Britney up ahead. It goes hand in hand with a vast genre of empowered-princess books...
...battles prostate cancer, expressed concern yesterday that the Faculty might fail to see the review through to completion. “We are running very close to running this whole thing into the sand,” Pilbeam said. “We are not very good at fine-tuning in the committee as a whole,” Pilbeam said, referring to the entire Faculty. He assured his colleagues that minor concerns with the legislation will be addressed by the much smaller committee assigned to implement the final legislation. But just one week before the final vote, some professors...
...people in their 20s and 30s stared anxiously at a large TV screen, the air of expectation recalled the penalty shootout that resolved last summer's World Cup soccer final between France and Italy. But this time, when the French youth of New York broke out in song, the tune was not Allez les Bleus, but La Marseillaise, sang in a passionate spirit not seen in French politics in two generations...