Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Professor," "the Reverend" and "Mammy" (Jeremy Geidt), who are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura. Made up to look like Dr. Fu Manchu and with an accent to match, Alvin Epstein plays this role with hysterical finesse. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah Lil" (Stephanie Cotsirilos). She falls for Bill, and redeeming social values ensue...
Benevolent Patriarch. The influence of The Bronx goes deeper in Meany than his reading tastes or his accent, which turns work into "woik" and oil into "erl." He is the benevolent patriarch of a large, Irish-Catholic family, much like the ones he knew while growing up and learning the trade of a plumber. Meany and his wife Eugenia ("Gena"), now 78, have three daughters and 13 grandchildren, all clustered in the Washington area. There is a lingering air of life in exile about the family...
With steel gray hair, impeccable tailoring and only the slightest trace of a Texas accent, Bentsen displays none of the back-slapping machismo associated with the stereotyped Texas politician. The more than $1 million in campaign donations he has collected so far places him third in the race for funds-behind Scoop Jackson, who has collected nearly $1.5 million, and Alabama Governor George Wallace, who has pulled in $1.8 million. Most of Bentsen's money has come from fellow Texans (including $365,000 from a single Texas dinner). He made a name for himself on the hustings with party...
After 3½ years at Malvern College in England, he entered Yale in the class of 1941. Says Poet Reed Whittemore, Angleton's college roommate and still a close friend: "He was quite British in his ways, though he had treasured his Middle Western accent. He was a mixture of pixiness and earnestness, very much at home in Italian literature, especially Dante, as well as the fine points of handicapping horses. He was an owl; he stayed up late, talking, reading or playing poker...
Game after game, though, this unlikely lion takes on what former Chicago Black Hawk Goalie Glenn Hall once called "sixty minutes of hell." Says Parent in his clipped French Canadian accent: "I like playing in that place. I always have." He is superbly suited for his work. A hockey goal, 6 ft. wide and 4 ft. high, provides a 24-sq.-ft. opening. Since the average goal tender - Parent included - fills a space of about 8 sq. ft. in his 35 lbs. of padding, his job boils down to protecting the remaining area with stick, glove or body...