Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World inflation has reached crisis proportions, only we do not realize it," says Deak, his Bela Lugosi accent echoing his native Transylvania. The demands for federal spending on welfare and defense are so intense that "various measures taken by Government can affect inflation and the dollar, but only very little. I'm afraid that inflation will increase, and eventually our monetary system will collapse and our social structure will change. I went through all this before-in Hungary, Austria and Germany hi the 1920s-and the trend is inevitable...
...Marian Mercer), and with the quickest of strides reaches the top as a national and international business tycoon. Along the way he accumulates a bevy of English, Russian and German mistresses, all played with great comic zest by the selfsame Mercer. There is less sin than smirk in these accent-prone escapades...
...Diane Venora's wonderful portrayal of Mafgery, the country wife. She literally saves the second and third acts as she camps and mugs her way out of her husband's jealous clutches and into Horner's lecherous arms. Venora puts on a very funny rural English accent and manages to be consistent about it, and her stage presence is excellent. She steals just about every scene she's in, especially when she dresses up as a man to see the town and ends up with a dozen oranges stuffed down her shirt...
...hard to say what makes Clouseau so funny. He is supposed to be French, of course. Why, therefore, does he speak English with the strong Gallic accent of a man raised in Stuttgart? His colleagues and adversaries are French too, but they cannot figure out why Clouseau talks that way or, mostly, what he is talking about. "Leu and order," he says, meaning what he has sworn to uphold; every sentence contains a verbal banana peel...
Sullivan took the candidate on a tour of most of the city offices. "How you doing, Paul Tsongas, running for United States Senate," Tsongas repeated to every tax collector, auditor, clerk and secretary he met, always placing the accent on his name. The reactions he received ranged from disinterested nods to an embrace and kiss from one secretary; that seemed to ensure him one vote at least, but the stop could not be considered a complete success. Several city councilors who were supposed to meet with Tsongas were not around...