Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rendezvous complete with steam bath, tiny cubicles for man-to-man trysts and a third-rate entertainer, Googie Gomez, a thrush with a condor's appetite for stardom. As the chanteuse, Rita Moreno is a comic earthquake ranking ten on the Richter scale, though her Puerto Rican accent renders some of her lines unintelligible...
...hrlicher Mann (a dangerous man). That may be a reaction not only to his ultraconservatism but also to the authoritarianism he demonstrated in his Cabinet positions. Yet in person, Strauss is a witty intellectual who can readily toss off Latin and Greek epigrams-in an incongruously thick Bavarian accent. His fondness for German Sekt is well known, and before his 1957 marriage to a brewer's daughter, he frequented Bonn's winehouses and Munich's cafes...
...keep his voice down--sometimes he screams to provoke his diffident witnesses, sometimes he just chortles in glee. "There are too many clues in this room" he sings out in a high-pitched warble as he makes his first inspection of the murder room. Throughout, a heavy Anglo-Frog accent blankets his speech, sometimes making him difficult to understand. Most of the other actors manage to sound vaguely foreign without making their speech an impediment, and Finney is to blame for his bizarre patois...
...actresses, you assume they can take care of themselves. Lumet seems to have concentrated on keeping the dialogue sparse, and the characterization quick and neat. The result is like a museum restoration with a very serious curator but subject matter laughably warped out of shape. Is Finney's accent a joke? Why does Wendy Hiller look like a nonagenarian who's aged fifty years since The Lady Vanished...
...idea of organizing clerical workers in universities. Every organizing meeting is different, of course--the secretaries here are older than their Cambridge counterparts, have been working for Harvard longer and are more suspicious about the idea of joining a union. When Schroder says, in her mild German accent, that District 65 is "the first union that has really looked at women's problems," the secretaries just sit passively. At a Faculty of Arts and Sciences organizing meeting, the women might have murmured their approval...