Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protagonist, Peter (Ralph Martin), has been a cook for three years. He is an immigrant, like most of his co-workers, and you could guess Germany produced him even without the accent. His seemingly innate idealism has been reduced to a stump by the kitchen which he has turned into an abstraction: he is content to push people around, with a fleeting, hysterical grin on his face, asking for dreams that he himself cannot deliver. "Games are for imagining new things, new ways to be," he pants while stacking boxes into an arch. "My group, we used to build things...
...supposed to represent. Hans, whom Eugene Buder plays with flaring nostrils and flirtatiously upturned eyes, is associated with Marlene Dietrich and Joel Grey, and although he holds his own well, they have held theirs better. Dimitri (Donald J. Campbell Jr.) resembles a wistful Zorba, but his blustery accent, unlike that of Nicholas (Gustavo B. Armagno) is not Greek and he wraps himself too earnestly in a philosophically tragical nature--especially for a Greek who yearns for a boat and uses the wrong word to say it in his native language...
Lecherous Pleasantries: "Typically. Kissinger began [his first meeting with Syria's President Hafez Assad] by being funny. Through the interpreter he said, 'I should teach you English, Mr. President. You'll be the first Arab leader to speak English with a German accent. Did you meet Mr. Sisco [Under Secretary Joseph J. Sisco, who is about to resign]? I had to bring him with me -if I left him in Washington he might mount a coup d'etat.' Assad laughed. Kissinger assumed that the Syrians, like other Arabs, were intrigued by his success with women...
...Hampshire was past; Massachusetts and Florida were looming ahead in successive weeks. Even as the victory chants in a Manchester hotel broadened his gleaming grin, the boyish-looking candidate took the lectern to talk of the impending challenge by Alabama Governor George Wallace in Florida. Dropping his genteel accent, former Governor Jimmy Carter spoke jokingly in the redneck slang of his rural South, vowing, "And we gon' take 'im!" His traveling Georgia campaign workers whooped with joy. Then Carter, whose Secret Service code name is Dasher, flew off to Boston while most of his exhausted Democratic opponents slept...
Bailey's next expert was Dr. Martin Orne, 48, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in detecting when a subject is trying to deceive his questioners. Speaking with a slight Viennese accent, Orne said that he had actually tried to lead Patty into giving inaccurate answers to please him. Orne's considered opinion: "Miss Hearst simply did not lie." This flat statement evoked a strenuous objection from Bancroft and led Judge Carter to issue his caution to the jurors that they would have to make up their own minds on that basic issue...