Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, roly-poly Boris Mihailovich Morros, 62, has been a suave Slav charmer with a St. Petersburg touch to his accent. As he tells it, when he was 16 and already conducting the Russian Imperial Symphony, the charmed Rasputin pressed gifts upon him. At 42, as a Hollywood musical director, he persuaded Leopold Stokowski to make his first motion picture (The Big Broadcast of 1937). Even the U.S. Government capitulated to his charm. During Boris' twelve-year stint as an undercover man keeping tabs on Soviet spies, bemused FBI men referred to him as their "special special agent." Last...
...rays of his black sun. But he was uncertain how far he was entitled to his phantoms, and still more uncertain how far his phantoms were entitled to enter the domain of art. He waited twenty years before giving them, in paint, their tyrannous accent...
...that make up Cyrano's character--braggadocio, courageous soldier, learned wit, testy quarreler, gallant lover, poetic lyricist, resigned indigent, noble altruist and pathetic but proud moribund. He gets a lot of variety out of his famous Nose Speech; and he correctly performs his Moon Travel Scene with a foreign accent. His Cyrano is first-rate acting...
From Torts to Contracts. In reply, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, in his Nebraska-with-patina-by-Yale accent, set his eye toward the future. "Together," he said, "we are committed with the other free peoples to the goal of a worldwide application of principles of justice under law-an inspiration that all men and institutions will be governed by a reasoned law and not by the whim or caprice of any man or group who is not thus restrained." His was a stirring and eloquent call "for men and peoples skilled in the law" to develop...
Sinatra-despite spitcurl bangs and a put-on accent-expectably works hardest, acts best. Captain Grant suavely keeps trying not to remind himself of Horatio Hornblower. So they finally get the gun to the long shadow of Avila's wall, blast their opening at 1.600 yards, and sliding in on their own blood, overwhelm the hated occupiers. Thus Producer Kramer conquers Napoleon's forces. But somehow the whir of the cameras often seems as loud as the thunderous cannonades. It evidently takes more than dedication, cooperative multitudes and $4,000,000 to shoot history in the face...