Word: accents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stilted boots. And they wear modified hockey outfits complete with shinguards--in a properly Gallic blue, be it said. I suppose all this is to emphasize the enormous odds facing the outnumbered British. When conversing with the British, the French speak English with a French accent. When the French talk among themselves, however, Kahn has provided them with a French translation of Shakespeare's text. While they spout French, a man and woman at the downstage extremities simultaneously speak the English version into microphones--as though broadcasting a United Nations caucus. This is utterly pointless, a good example of Kahn...
...every instance beating the Lindsays and the Wagners. "I didn't make this up, now," George Wallace told TIME Correspondent Kenneth Danforth, shortly after the New York election. "Some Northern writer did. This man wrote that what we're hearing now is 'Wallaceism with a Yankee accent.' That's pretty good, I think...
Some of the other stories are better than Asimov's pitiful offering; some are worse. In "Budget Planet," Robert Sheckley has god speaking with a Yiddish accent. I'm not an especially reverent man, but I was grossed out, K. M. O'Donnell wrote a tedious novella called "Final War" which, he ways, is about "neither war nor death." He goes on to say that it is, in fact, about "the polarization of existences re-enacted on several levels over and again and if that makes no sense, I suppose human life makes no sense either." O'Donnell is, unfortunately...
...Popi, Arkin speaks with an accent that smacks aptly of the Caribbean, but many of his gestures are strictly Baltic. His perception of the role is something else entirely. A slight and soft-spoken man offscreen, he manages to give himself bulk and ferocity as a man driven up the walls of el barrio by the conflict of pride and circumstance. As a comedian, he clambers over the film to reach the top rank of American performers. Barking like a watchdog to frighten off apartment thieves, or purifying English curses into harmless Spanish, Arkin transforms slapstick into exuberant social comment...
...usual lost gold cache -before they get wiped out in the customary massacre. Left over are a Mexican villain (Omar Sharif), leathery Marshal Mackenna (Gregory Peck), one surly, burly Apache and two obligatory ladies. The blonde (Camilla Sparv), supposedly Arizona-born and bred, speaks with a heavy Swedish accent. The Indian maiden (Julie Newmar) is a red-skinned Stupefyin' Jones, left over from the musical Li'I Abner. In the movie's sole sex scene, she is submerged in a tarn, seemingly nudish but actually prudish in a body stocking...