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Nevertheless, reviewers say that Guralnick tells Elvis' story "with eloquent sorrow and muted poignance" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to check out the Complete Elvis Presley Database, which has photos, a discography, and links.)
and delighted-to-be-here voice-overs" (John Leonard, New York ). "At times you may feel you've tuned into a commercial for Colonial interiors or an online flower show" (Walter Goodman, the New York Times ). Burns earns muted praise for his evenhanded if inconclusive portrait of Jefferson, particularly for his treatment of the Sally Hemings question and Jefferson's contradiction-riddled approach toward slavery.
Brighter colors often indicate synthetic dyes, whereas traditionally-made items are still made with the muted earthy colors of natural dyes.
Then there's the added insult to untreated ER waiting-room injury of having to watch these Satanic sentimental TV spots for various HMOs, featuring grainy handheld pseudo-documentary sepia-tone footage of some hypothetical multi-ethnic customer base (elderly black grandmothers on rocking chairs with blankets draped over their knees and beaming Asian-American 6-year-olds on swing sets always seem to make an appearance) while muted piano music plays and some studio-musician faux-gospel vocalist breathily intones the company slogan/musical sound bite, informing us all "(Insert Name of HMO here) ...
Again, the medium is toys--heroic cowboys and occasional Indians--bathed this time in muted colors.
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