Word: accent
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...title against the skyscrapers, and later a panorama of a shadowed indoor pool that silhouettes Brian and Happy against a stark white wall. The music, which ranges from instrumental flittings to Masta Killa’s “Brooklyn King,” is wisely used to accent moods rather than to set them.The real intrigue of the movie, however, comes in its veiled imagery and unanswered questions. The movie begins, for example, with a shot of two white rats struggling to keep from drowning. As they bat their tiny pink paws against the glass sides...
...that changed in face of an increasingly global world?DD: One of the most interesting things that’s happened in my academic lifetime is that world literature used to be just, to be comparativist meant you had to have a really good accent in two or three western European languages that were French, German, English, maybe Italian, maybe Russian—but that’s about it. Now it’s become this completely globalized thing. So for me, a lot of this eccentric stuff I just happened to have fallen in love with, they didn?...
British-born, Ganley retains a London accent despite having lived in Ireland for 27 years. He talks fondly of his 97-year-old Irish grandmother who moved to Scotland to pick potatoes. Ganley created Libertas to campaign against the E.U.'s Lisbon Treaty - a so-far failed attempt to get countries to sign up to a re-write of a European Constitution - in Ireland's referendum last June. He is credited - or blamed - for the 'no' vote, and the subsequent institutional turmoil that continues to haunt...
...international athlete who arrives at Harvard knows that there are a lot of changes to deal with. There’s the distance from home, new foods, a new academic environment, and for some, fellow classmates who say, “O.M.G. I love your accent!”But for freshman tennis star and proud Aussie Holly Cao, the No. 4 singles player on the Crimson women’s tennis team, the biggest challenge came in the form of white fluff.“I mean I’ve never seen snow before I came [to Harvard...
...literature concentrator in Damrosch’s class this semester, praised the professor’s teaching style. “He acts out every part of the plays he teaches,” she says. “When we read British texts, he speaks with a British accent, and with Russian texts, a Russian accent.” Kivrak, a native of Turkey, said that she hopes that more classes in world literatures will be offered to undergraduates...