Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glared incongruously like colorful Rorshach inkblots from the walls of the Faculty Club dining room. Singer seemed at home in the sober stateliness of the wood-pancled room with its immense chandclier. He might have been an old alumnus returning to recapture an earlier cra, but his marvelous Yiddish accent spoke of a childhood spent elsewhere. Delicately rolled r' s and full-bodied gultural consonants played hide-and-seck among the alien diphthougs of American English. Singer spoke slowly and clearly, sometimes hesitating over a word, rejecting it, and choosing another...
...admitted or not, much of the sound of that language is derived from the timbre of the African voice and the listening habits of the African ear. So there is a de'z and do'z of slave speech sounding beneath our most polished Harvard accents, and if there is such a thing as a Yale accent, there is a Negro wail in it-doubtlessly introduced there by Old Yalie John C. Calhoun, who probably got it from his mammy...
...mister driving has an Oklahoma accent and a square jaw like one Merilee once knew. As they near the Greyhound Station in San Bernadino, she asks if she can kiss him goodbye. Doubtfully he says don't mind if you do. They are at a stoplight. Merilee leans over Girl and her sweet mouth covers the man's, drawing strength and breath and everlasting resolution from him. He is startled and the cars behind him are tooting their horns. "What was that all about, hon?" he asks...
...shoe. Masochists, lovers of camp and chroniclers of the collapse of Hollywood will sift for years The Adventurers' riches of embarrassment. There is the waste of Charles Aznavour as a kinky sadist and Anna Moffo doing her mini-Maria Callas. There is Ernest Borgnine, trapped in a Spanish accent several sizes too large. There is Candice Bergen, grimacing as she loses her virginity to the offscreen sound of firecrackers banging. There is windy dialogue ("Yesterday never happens again"). There is the rhythmic up-and-down movement of a camera lens during yet another harsh, graphic seduction scene...
...American College Dictionary (since the accent is on youth) defines obscene as: "offensive to modesty and decency," which is how Mr. James Aubrey characterizes the love scenes between Burt Lancaster and myself [Feb. 9], in an obvious reference to The Gypsy Moths, an MGM film that predates his assumption of supreme power in Culver City...