Word: accents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer," Burton says. "He pretended he was a machine reading a tape of several voices and rejecting one after another until the right voice registered." Over the course of the interviews, Sellers managed to imitate human voices as well, ranging from Lord Snowdon's uncle (who inspired the accent for Fu Manchu, his next role) to Movie Mogul Walter Mirisch, a favorite target in Sellers' sniping at Hollywood. While Burton was spared the savage imitations Sellers sometimes does of his interviewers, she admits, "I detected a sprinkling of my sloppy American filler phrases ('sort...
Martin Davies, as Edgar, often manages to escape Sellars' designs. His sweet British accent gives Shakespeare's poetry its proper melody. And his transformation from Eton dupe to London punk adds a clever twist to Sellars' dismal view of modern civilization...
...kids have been sitting still for a couple of hours. When Kennedy tells them they ought to have a "chahnce" to enter the political arena, his Boston Brahmin accent draws more than a few murmurs. Kennedy raises his voice when he talks about the programs that he really cares about. Like national health care. The voice booms, "Every member of the United States Congress goes to the Senate dispensary and gets their little health care needs taken care of in full, and we don't pay a cent for it." The crowd quiets down. "One out of seven...
About the time that Soudan was opening his shipping firm, a man calling himself Bert Stem-fortyish, with gray hair and a vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to be delivered in Genoa to an independent Italian oil company, Pontoil. On Nov. 30, the ship-Soudan's Salem-sailed for Kuwait and picked up the crude. After four days at sea, however, the cargo was sold to Shell in a normal spot-market transaction. Shell kept Genoa...
...able to defeat the Shah, who had one of the most powerful and best-equipped armies in that area, practically without weapons The people fought with tremendous courage, losing thousands and thousands of lives. I think the revolution is going to cling to its strong religious and nationalistic accent...