Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the Ranks. Although now thoroughly Americanized, down to his accent, Porter was born in England and came to the U.S. with his widowed mother at an early age. He attended Thibodeau Business College in Fall River, Mass. He clerked for a time in a Fall River haberdashery, where he met a customer who was then U.S. minister to Budapest. They fell into conversation, and after several more chats, the diplomat launched Porter's career by hiring him as his private secretary...
...retreating before creeping sideburns and widening ties. Despite a touch of residual acne, Stuart Miller saw himself as Stuart the Magnificent. A New Yorker, he had buried his middle-class Jewish background beneath dashing consumer goods. His degrees included a Ph.D. from Yale. He had acquired a vaguely British accent and was, fittingly, the author of The Picaresque Novel, a study of rogues in literature...
...Renee Estópinal) in period attire: he in black frock coat and breeches, she in a white bell-shaped dress. Their movements together are as much mime as dance: a conversation of courtly gestures, expressed more by arm and hand than by the deceptively easy steps that subtly accent Bach's limpid line...
...more correct than moving-a special kind of theater. And what is that exotic yet all too familiar sound in a reader's ear? Somewhere in the mythic South, where white pillars are carved with graffiti by Tennessee Williams, Margaret Leighton is warming up her Old Vic-Southern accent. Stand by, Hester...
...them Cubans) an average of $2.30 per hour v. the $2.80 averaged by shoe workers in Massachusetts. Suave also benefits from its highly motivated salesmen, many of them also Cuban. "We look for young, hungry men who want to make money," says President Egozi, who insists that a heavy accent can be a selling advantage. "If a salesman has one eye or one arm or can't talk good English, you remember him," he says...