Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class has turned into a private conversation between himself and the professor. And what professor minds that this student, a little more learned, with a little more experience than the others, is spraying the lucky professor with compliments and taking every opportunity to show off the perfect, practiced accent, or the memorized lines of Shakespeare, or simply just admiring the professor's choice of a bow tie? None that I have seen...
...role consists of little more than pointing out Nightingale's faults, while her own mysterious past is occasionally hinted at but never revealed. Her inscrutability is interesting, but leaves Chappell with rather little to work with. Her performance is solid and smooth, and at the very least her accent is convincing and lowkey...
...also changed somewhat from previous albums. He sports a breathy, melodic fullness, especially on the single "E-bow the Letter," which is a departure from the stylized, wavery thinness on which his career was built. Certain pronunciations also seem peculiar, even to the point of suggesting a regional accent. It's as if the listener is meant to become confused as to who is singing each successive song...
...said. He looked less like Bill Clinton. I'm not sure I believe the plastic-surgery talk. There are any number of American men who, with some adjustment of hairstyle and accent, could more or less pass for Bill Clinton. The same was true of George Bush. James Carville is another matter...
Others in Atlanta were accused of substandard performance. The police took 10 minutes to alert officers on the scene after they had received the 911 call from a male voice with no discernible accent announcing, "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have 30 minutes." No one wanted to take responsibility for giving guard credentials to Jewell, who has worked for the law and, by some accounts, outside it. The FBI was steamed that Jewell's name had been leaked, perhaps by local officials. That may have stymied the bureau's interview strategy designed to trip up bomb suspects...