Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never before, female biology and sexuality are being used as raw material for fiction. The trend did not appear overnight. Among the lonely precursors of the new irate accent in fiction was Christina Stead...
...much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values of traditional heroes are in question, but his actual motives are mundane, and he's apt to be a bit dumb. In addition to story, Kubrick caught the hypocritical impersonality of 50's surfaces--in an airport where Hayden is finally...
...started out at foil, and after a week, coach Marion, a stately Eastern European gentleman whose accent I found unintelligible for weeks, urged me to take a little vacation from fencing, and then forget the game altogether...
...promise had been carried through. The dialogue is just one-step removed from inanity as Peter--played with a certain noncommittal grace by Robert F. Lyons--tells Susan, "I think (smile) we're getting to be pretty heavy dudes," while John's own girlfriend complains in the accent of the Seven Sisters, "I don't want any skag in my house." There's even an occasionally striking image--as when Peter and Susan, tripped-out strangers in Paradise, stand naked amongst the technical paraphernalia of a recording studio. But Williams' sense of self-amusement is simply too erratic...
Justin's saga is, in short, the American dream with an English accent. "I come from a very poor family," he says. "I've had a hard background. But I always knew that I would do something." What else is left to do? At this point, his dream, which is only half in jest, is purely English. Would you believe Dame Twiggy...