Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whoever the culprit, officials said, he was no mad-genius Unabomber type. Only one of the three pipe bombs in the duct-tape-clad package actually detonated. Match this criminal klutziness with a Southern accent and down-home demeanor, and the composite portrait was enough to inspire a spasm of dark humor. "The Una-doofus," joked Jay Leno. "Unabubba," a federal agent said...
...shuffling harmonica sounds like it could be background music for Hee Haw, and host Martin Kratt is all got up in cowboy boots and a bandanna just like the country show's star, Roy Clark. This episode, Kratt explains in a humorously fake Western accent, will focus on bovines, "the puurtiest darn cows I've ever seen." But he's not talking about barnyard animals, and his brother and co-host Chris waddles onto the scene to set things straight. The show is actually about sea cows. What are sea cows? Ah, that's the fun on Kratts' Creatures--finding...
Bruno the "assembly room coordinator" was our commandante for the week: a short, tubby man with an appropriately overstated "New York" accent. He was clearly in control. He held in his hands the ability to show us clemency or sentence us to the maximum penalty: two full weeks of sitting in that damned room as if we were waiting for an endlessly-delayed flight. Every once in a while, he would look up, bring his mouth to the small microphone on his desk and say, "The following jurors will report to the fourth floor..." I had mixed feelings at these...
Could two roles be farther apart than Ginnie and Emma? Nonetheless, the first part helped her get the second. "I grew up in Texas," McGrath says, "and my friends and I used to just kill ourselves laughing when movie actors did Texas accents. People always sounded like the Clampetts. But Gwyneth did the most impeccable Texas accent in Flesh and Bone. She has an amazing ear. And, of course, everything else is perfect. Her speaking voice is a beautiful instrument, and she photographs like a dream--all the light goes to her on the set, and she seems to absorb...
...Earl and other themers, food, drink and entertainment are just the beginning stages of what they hope will be empires built on a brand name. "I'm no longer a restaurateur," Earl declares in an accent from the Robin Leach school of elocution. "I'm in the business of building trademarks." That's one reason why each restaurant is designed with a merchandise shop to tempt customers to buy such must-have souvenirs as jogging suits, $20 T shirts or baby baseball togs. Or a $399 leather jacket--just add it to the food bill. The logo gear...