Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Telltale blunders, however, gave the caller away. Though the accent sounded Southern, the voice was too gravelly with whisky, and the speech too ungrammatical, for Martha. The impostor went on to confess: "I am half drunk-I do drink a little bit. Why shouldn't I drink a little bit?" Anyone who has received a call from Martha Mitchell knows that she consistently denies having downed a drop of alcohol before getting on the phone. The impersonator said she had attended the state dinner for Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev the night before (actually, Martha was at her Manhattan apartment...
...toll in cholestorol build up, much less a good dose of bad vibes in hostility content?--you can get them and find the type that eats them at Barney's (22 Boylston St.) and Buddy's Sirloin Pit (across from the Brattle Theater). The Wursthaus affects a slight German accent, fine for families who aren't liable to notice the pretensions because they're busy, if they're normal Wasps, fighting. The headwaiter doesn't like students much anyway. For Mexican food that can sear your insides go to Casa Mexico (75 Winthrop St.): it's good but far from...
...liaison with law enforcement agencies. The note suggested three times at which McCord could go to a pay phone "on Route 355 near the Blue Fountain Inn" and expect a call from Caulfield. McCord went to the booth, got a call from a man with a "New York accent" who said: "Jack will want to talk with you shortly. He will be in touch with you soon." McCord returned home and later got a call from the intermediary telling him to return to the phone booth. Caulfield called McCord there, said that he was going overseas but if McCord...
...Magyars, stomped and whirled through a rousing czardas that looked as if it might have been borrowed from Russia's bouncy, folkish Moiseyev dancers. Hayden, naturally, was given a brace of queenly solo turns and a pas de deux with Favorite Partner Jacques d'Amboise calculated to accent her un obtrusively cool, legato manner...
...were a badly adjusted carburetor. He also remains deeply attached to his ex-wife Dolly. When she runs into difficulties with her play about Sir Walter Raleigh, Smackenfelt enriches her script with research and a model characterization of Raleigh that almost leaves the actor with a permanent Devonshire accent...