Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next show goes on in 15 minutes. A fellow with riding breeches and a blonde-streaked pageboy is peering under a trunk marked "Five Dollar Shoes;" "Where's my yellow bracelet? I had two yellow bracelets." "You look exquisite without it dear," says the lady with the English accent. She is Jobriath's hairdresser. "Dahling, would you fix me a drink; I don't want any of this horse piss." Husky men in tight pants and T-shirts, reading "Queen," hustle about the room moving microphones and wires...
...water that goes rushing illegally out of the city reservoir every night. He finds it, gets soaked when it comes charging down a dry canal. Walks out. Shot of his feet. Curses his leaky Florsheims. And then up walks director Polanski as a short little tough with a foreign accent, who puts a knife in the detective's nostril and makes a little slice to remind him not to be nosey...
...French accent that you report me as saying [June 10] something that doesn't make sense at all. I said that the book President Kissinger was to be seen as a vibrant homage to Kissinger's intuitions-not institutions...
...seem misguided. "The French phrase rien de grave is idiomatic for. . . 'It's nothing serious.' Associate 'Ran the grave' to 'It's nothing' in some ridiculous way and you've memorized it." Yes, you have, and in a flawless Kankakee accent...
...weeks into the term because I couldn't manage and within two days, I was in San Francisco. The day before I left I went to University Health Services to hash it out with a psychiatrist. But I was slightly disappointed in the tiny man with a heavy German accent who sat me down and began to ignore me. He wrote notes continually during the session, using a thick, phallic Mont-Blanc pen that was twice the size of his hand. After I told him everything that was happening, he turned to me and said, "It seems...