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Word: accents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Justin has always vetoed speech lessons, which would alter Twiggy's working-class accent, and has protected her from all the "jiggery-pokery" that might tarnish her image, or what he thinks her image ought to be. When Photographer Bert Stern wanted to use her in a series of pictures illustrating pop fairy tales a few years ago, Justin turned him down flat. "Twiggy has a pure, clean image," he said. "The whole idea of the wolf, the big bad wolf, and Twiggy-it has something erotic about it." He added, quite unnecessarily: "I won't have sexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The English Dream | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Hampered by a simulated French accent, Bloom lacks gravity in certain scenes, but her ravishing beauty is authority enough. With a voice that can raise a welt with a whisper, Atkins is monarch of all she surveys. The rest of the excellent cast helps make the Broadhurst Theater a plot of royal ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Star-Crossed Haters | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...with an accent telephoned the Harvard operator and said a bomb was to go off in Lamont. The operator informed the University Police who in turn contacted us at about 12:50 p.m.," Richard Dardy, administrative assistant for Lamont Library, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accented Voice Makes Bomb Threat; Lamont Closes Despite Exam Period | 1/28/1972 | See Source »

...vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 17, 1972 | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...easy to believe the story that Chevalier returned periodically to the Berlitz School to perfect his French accent in English. Chevalier was marked by America long before he saw the Statue of Liberty. "My first influence was the American music hall," he has explained. "I remember seeing the Tiller girls in Paris sing Yankee Doodle Dandy with that crazy tempo. I went mad. What I did was to mix the American novelty and old French humor so that even to the French I was something new." It was that new-old French humor that came across in his best-loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Reserved for the Stage | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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