Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much greater sense of what Shaw is about. Cynthia Cardon is just right as Prossy, Morell's secretary and admirer, snapping out her consonants, as Shaw once suggested she should, with a "ten pound gun hammer spring." Thomas Champion, as Burgess, Candida's father, has a laudable Cockney accent, and Mariani himself oozes idolatrous servility as the cleric Lexy. One of the most successful scenes in the production is the comic encounter between Prossy, Burgess and Marchbanks; in this run-in with characters who have the outlines of caricature, Marchbanks' own exaggerated mannerisms find their proper context...
Dapper's mentality is like that of any good Roxbury Memorial High football lineman: he sees himself pitted against the world, fighting hard. "When I get someone by the fuckin' throat, I never let go." But to whites with a Boston accent and preferably a blue-collar background, he can be crudely pleasant, almost charismatic. Extremely friendly and accessible. O'Neil is as close to a Ralph Cramden as he is to an Archie Bunker...
...Penny, and Cronin's. Apparently not a man of habit, he alternates his drinks--along with drinking partners and locale--mostly between beer and scotch. And then, "for those occasions when I feel scholarly," Dave says, tipping his head back, raising his eyebrows, and adopting the airs and accent of the ever-so-refined gentleman, "I drink sherry...
...Head Researcher Margaret Boeth, whose family has lived in Mississippi for seven generations, left the South for New York 19 years ago. "When I first arrived and people asked me where I was from, I'd say New York," she laughs. "It was ludicrous, in view of my accent. Now I proudly say I'm from Mississippi...
...developing the region's natural resources: land, textiles, lumber, oil. They formed a closed clique that exercised great financial and political power. Today all that is changing. New business opportunities are cropping up as fast as, well, peanuts. There is a high demand for enterprise with a Southern accent, and to fill it, a brash new breed of entrepreneurs. Profiles of four...