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...range of emotions from unhappiness at her three-person marriage to ecstasy in scenes involving her lover, Earl Grey. Ralph Fiennes, her philandering husband, gives a skilled performance as the selfish and inattentive Lord of Devonshire. He and Knightley make a convincingly unhappy couple onscreen. Even the aristocratic British accent??often hard to do well–is right on par. Half the fun of watching the movie is seeing the lavishly overdone costumes. The sets ooze 18th century opulence. The dinner party scene—shown in the movie’s trailer—encapsulates...
When my mother first arrived at Harvard in 1972, she brought with her a thick Boston accent??a product of her upbringing in working class Framingham. Only a few weeks into school, she drummed up the courage to ask a question in a packed lecture hall. The professor responded by mockingly mimicking her accent. Humiliated by this degrading experience, she self-consciously introduced the letter “r” into her vernacular...
Clearly, it takes little more than a differing manner of elocution to be marginalized as an outsider in Boston. It is no surprise then that the comparatively raffish culture at Harvard—epitomized by its rejection of the Boston accent??would serve to alienate the University from the community in which it has resided in since 1636. Why else would Police Captain and son of South Boston William B. Evans be able to develop a convivial rapport with Boston College officials, who extend him a warm invitation yearly to lecture students on the hazards of alcohol, while...
...Iconic film directors like Philippe Garrel and Bernardo Bertolucci have returned to the period on their sets, shooting Les Amants réguliers (2005) and The Dreamers (2004) respectively. Quite ironically, for last winter’s season, the ubiquitous LeClerc retail store—think Gap with French accent??chose ’68 as the theme for their ad campaign. And further south, in Spain, songwriter Ismael Serrano became a star not so long ago with a song begging his father to retell the “beautiful story?...
MacFarlane—as Peter, who speaks with a thick Rhode Island accent??said that there may be a future U.S. president in the class...