Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Accent on Newlyweds. Above all else, business opportunities in the 1970s will be affected by startling changes in the age mix of the U.S. population. Because of the low birth rate, population rose only 1.1% last year, to 206 million. Census experts envisage an increase of only 1.3% a year until 1975 and 1.4%-a-year growth until 1980 (to about 230 million). Fully one-third of that increase will come among 25-to 34-year-olds; they were born during the postwar "baby boom," and are now becoming newlyweds themselves...
...Mexico City. Starting as a portrait painter in Paris, Varda had already switched to collage when he came to the U.S. in 1939. Much of his work was based on the idea that each picture should be remembered for one major color and contain just enough of another to accent the dominant shade...
...other editors at McCall's thought that his commentary on woman's liberation "was the greatest thing they had seen in years," when he said to me, "You should eat more." Before I could protest he served me up a triple portion of squash and in his customary French accent added, "When I was a boy we ate whatever was put before us." Then, as I looked skeptically at the yellow mound on my plate, Mayer brought one hand to his rounding stomach and concluded, smiling, "That's why my generation is too heavy today...
Some mothers today remember Dr. Mayer as the man who went on TV to say that monosodium glutamate (trade name Accent) in baby foods might be harming their children. He says today that consumers no longer know what they eat. "In 1949 ninety per cent of the food sold was for the housewife. Now only fifty per cent is, and at least half of that is highly-processed with all sorts of additives-vegetable protein substitutes for meat and excessive salt to mask the taste of excessive sugar and on and on." Mayer wants calories, proteins, and minerals to appear...
...puppets unique. Explaining his preference for hand-operated puppets over those using strings ("marionettes"), Peschka says, "How on earth can you make emotion travel down a string!" The mannerisms of voice and style and the personalities of the five Standwells are all clearly delineated. Their individual quirks of voice, accent and mannerism permeate whatever characters they portray. Whether portraying a cocotte in a worldly Molnar one-act or chanting a lovelorn ballad in a piece by Jane and Paul Bowles, nobody can flounce quite like Mile. Garonce. Isabelle's gentility never wavers-not even when Sicnarf tries to teach...