Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roll down an entire flight of stairs) are Penny Goslin as his fiancee, Sylvia Kingsbury as a neighboring old lady and Tim Clark as the prospective father. All three manage to match Brock in calisthenics, but each, in his or her way, adopts a bit too much of an accent to be held accountable at all times for their words. In contrast, Ralph Martin contributes an arch bit as a homosexual art collector who multiplies the confusion--and, in these days of gay lib, his ability to get away with a lisp and a swish attests to a great degree...
...Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad meet on the stalemated Suez Canal issue. Such a confrontation is not likely, but the offer gave Eban a chance to criticize and praise the U.N. in its 26th year. Eban lamented that "in the work of the U.N. there is a strong accent on public controversy and a relative neglect of private conciliation." But he also noted that "this organization, for all its imperfection, is the only organized expression of the planetary spirit...
...overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard in 1930 movies...
...hallmark of the American political system that people think it makes no difference what politician is elected: most people think nothing can be changed by the political process," he drawled in an Oklahoman accent...
...assassin, the son of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone and a cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with the Oxbridge accent migrated West in 1927. In Hollywood, Romanoff was accepted as an off-camera actor in an actor's town; he opened his first restaurant there in 1939. "No one," he once said, "has ever discovered the truth about me-not even myself...