Word: accents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...southern accent...
Some people have tried to console me. "Oh, southern accents are cute," they say, or "they're distinguished." My accent is neither cute nor distinguished. It is more likely to be heard at a tractor pull than echoing through the oaken halls of Tara. It hinders me in almost every new venture...
...like a glass of tea," it comes our as "My horse wants to dance on your hairy daughter's love pumpkins," or something even worse. Perhaps my conversation teacher put it best: "If you were being spy in Soviet Union. Ben, you very quickly be shot." It seems an accent is nothing more or nothing less than a deformity, except that it's a deformity people seem perfectly willing to discuss in front...
Most impressive is Carreras, a stylish singer whose suave voice is often heard to better advantage on recordings than in large opera houses. Suppressing his Hispanic accent gamely, if intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight...
...President's accent on offensive arms was no accident. It was part of a campaign to swivel attention at Geneva away from defensive innovations like the celebrated Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as Star Wars. The Soviets are determined to make SDI the centerpiece of negotiations. The U.S., by contrast, is eager to cut a deal on reducing existing nuclear stockpiles and then worry about still-to-be-perfected space weapons. Said National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane: "It will take time to establish, much less understand, our new strategic-defense concept. That understanding is what we are after...