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Word: accents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't one to conform, and that was somewhat problematic," he says. "I was new and I was different. I spoke with a different accent and I had a different mentality...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Ashong Trades Harvard's Yard for Spielberg's Set | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Reilly shines as Jack/Don Juan, triumphantly maintaining both a flawless upper-middle class British accent and, more importantly, a breathless vitality that makes us understand what attracts Ann to such a unchivalrous, preachy windbag. In the purely sexual sense of the life force, he goes one better than Flanders. who plays up an engaging slyness as the predatory Ann, but falls a little short of projecting the mysterious feminine fascination that captures Jack against his will...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Man, Woman Create Life Force | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Friday morning, in The Washington Post, I read about his lecture style, his distinctive accent, his continuing involvement with former students and even his favorite meal on trips with students to the North End (veal Bolognese). Lewis, a former student, even wrote that he gave cooking lessons in his "tiny Cambridge kitchen...

Author: By Noelle Eckley, | Title: READER REPRESENTATIVE | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

...completely. But television, like it or not, has become integrated into our society. We turn to the tube primarily for entertainment, but that entertainment becomes a part of our culture as well. Television has become the instrument that unites our country. Some people mourn the slow loss of regional accents due to the bland accent of most television personae...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Not Enough Control | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

More than a thousand calls came into the National Enquirer's Ennis Cosby hot line after the paper posted a $100,000 reward in the case. One came just a few days after the Jan. 16 murder, when an edgy informant with a slight foreign accent got on the phone with a junior reporter in the Enquirer's Los Angeles office. "You guys are the ones who did the O.J. Simpson case," the caller said as he divulged information about a man who had admitted shooting an African American with a .38-cal. gun in the same area where Cosby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WITH A TIP FROM A TAB | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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