Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite her middle-class manner and accent, Thatcher in fact is a grocer's daughter from a market town in Lincolnshire. Her campaign strategy was designed in part to impress working-class voters, especially women, that she shared their concern about prices and other gut economic issues. At a shopping mall in Halifax, she brandished in her right hand a shopping bag crammed full of groceries, while in her left hand she held a half-empty one. "The right hand," she trilled, "was what a pound would buy under the Tory government in 1974; the other is what...
...once because of his vows could touch neither women nor money now insists upon introducing his wife to the interviewer. A man who spent five years in silence except for occasional conversation with his guru has taught at several universities and speaks ten languages eloquently with a rich Indian accent. Chitrabhanu does not care what religion a person believes in; he cares about his soul...
Voight's performance is a disappointment after his realistic portrayal of a Viet Nam vet in Coming Home. The champ should be a sweet, dumb lug, but Voight comes off as an actor playing a sweet, dumb lug. He affects a Sylvester Stallone accent, clouds his face with introspective pain and is not for a second convincing...
...into "Holiday in the Sun," contains the chilling refrain "Be a man, kill a man" and Rotten's patented looney-bin hysterics. Roland Biggs, the fat old geezer who took over fronting the band after Rotten left, performs his own version of the song, complete with bogus German accent. He also marches on Martin Bormann in his "No One's Innocent...
...complete grasp of his part. He is neither smooth nor debonnaire enough to be convincing as the sophisticated yet shallow ladies' man who serves as a foil for Tchaik's awkward naivete. Selden does have good stage presence, but his adrenalin falters too often, as does his sporadic British accent...