Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underneath the tough-skinned Breslin, behind the wall of bullshit, in back of the Queens accent, the slovenliness, the vainglorious earthiness, is another Breslin. A Breslin who is frustrated and angered by a society that programs people to failure and ignores compelling social problems...
...Bank Dick, starring W. C. Fields as Egbert Souse (accent grave over the e), the bank guard. A classic, especially the chase scene at the end. 4:30 p.m. on channel 38. Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, with Omar Sharif and Walter Pidgeon to back her up. Won lots of Oscars, accolades, etc. 7:30 p.m. on channel...
This summer Cambridge did exist and it kept on going. Even some atmosphere of the year-round Harvard continued. Directory assistance was still there (along with that wonderful lady with the acerbic British accent). Many professors stayed around till late August's heat and humidity drove them to the mountains and to the Cape. When we walked by the Union this summer, strange and stultifying smells still emanated from the back kitchen...
...better not make any travel plans for the next month or so. I'll need you close by." But none of this had altogether prepared Henry Kissinger for the news that he, an immigrant, a Jew, a professor who still spoke English with a marked German accent, was about to become the nation's 56th Secretary of State. He told the President -what else could he say?-that he certainly had no objection to his name being submitted to the Senate for confirmation. Then, still in the pool, the two men talked about problems ahead...
...some ways, Kissinger has changed little since President Nixon -ignoring the fact that Kissinger had opposed him in the 1968 election -named him national security adviser in 1969. He still retains his thick German accent, lives alone in a six-room town house in Washington's Rock Creek Park, and spends so little time there that friends say only the library looks used. He has retained his taste for rich foods, his interest in chess and his tendency to neglect his appearance. He still puts in 18-hour days and expects his aides to do the same...