Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinks nor smokes, and his command presence is unmistakable. A fervent nationalist who would impose Gaelic on Ireland as its sole language if he had his way, MacStiofáin is ferociously anti-British. "I have always accepted the inevitability of force," he says in his incongruously flat London accent. "I could never see any way to achieve Ireland's freedom otherwise...
...Born in Trinidad into a wealthy, land-owning Chinese family, Chen is an atypical apologist for the People's Republic. He studied at University College in London and did his legal apprenticeship at the Middle Temple, one of London's prestigious Inns of Court. Even today, his accent is impeccably British, and he speaks very little Chinese...
...love not awe; a legend in his own time-for half a century he was the best-known French entertainer on either side of the Atlantic. For Americans, Chevalier was synonymous with Gay Paree-joie de vivre; I'amour, toujours I'amour; English with a charming French accent. For the French he conjured up a different image. Maurice personified the "Titi Parisien" (Parisian Urchin). Born in the old working-class quarter of Menilmontant, he was a kind of French cockney, with the innate wit, mocking manner, insouciance and unconcern for tomorrow of the poor Parisian from the faubourgs...
...everywhere--stomping when a referee's decision goes against him, storming onto the court to protest a call, diving on his belly on the sidelines to get closer to the action, roaming up and down the boundary of the court, screaming, cheering, bellowing in his downhome Norfolk, Virginia accent, cajoling his players, lambasting officials--and the fans devour all of it greedily. It's all in the contract. All part of the package that you pay for when you hire Driesell...
...sure it was another hoax. Someone on the other end who said he was Henry Kissinger told him that his son Richard would be released from a Chinese prison the next day. Philip hung up without giving the call much thought. Still, the man had a German accent. Was it possible? It was indeed. The following day the Chinese freed Richard Fecteau after 19 years in prison; they also released a girl from Palo Alto, Calif., named Mary Ann Harbert, who was thought to have drowned off the coast of China almost four years...