Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the Clinton Administration sought to patch up its differences with the Europeans by putting a stronger accent on negotiating with the militant Serbs. The fresh angle was evidently -- but for the record, not explicitly -- a further sop to the aggressors, if only they would cease further killing. That prospective inducement looked very much like a prize that the U.S., particularly since Clinton became President, has sought expressly to deny the "ethnic cleansers": formation of a Greater Serbia between the rump Yugoslav state and the Serbs in breakaway Bosnia and Croatia. Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary, and French...
...movie of cameos -- and his re-creations of their famously brittle conversations suffer from a desperate case of fallen archness. What's worst is that the development of the film's central character is so uninvolving. Jennifer Jason Leigh's draggy performance as Parker is all studied accent (something vaguely mid- Atlantic but never before heard on Earth) and equally studied self-pity. Her sadness is attributed mainly to her failure to sexually consummate a relationship with her pal Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott). But this is a dithery and inconsequential tragedy, and it cannot sustain our sympathy, or our interest...
...Emperor Titus and his army. Its obvious formal prototype is the Roman battle sarcophagus, with figures arrayed in a frieze; its pictorial roots, expressed in the nobly articulated figures of enslaved Jews and conquering centurions, lie in Raphael. With its structure of color, bound by a repeated accent of red, with its perspective lines, its golden- section ratios, its echoes and reversals of pose and gesture, and the contrast of the milling crowd of figures with the stately columns of the temple, it is an incredibly complicated pictorial machine. The chaos of its violence has a dreamlike clarity...
Fortunately, Martinez's fervent performance, (in spite of a rather uneven Southern accent) carries the scene. As both Lady's dying husband and her ex-lover, Sam Baum does well with the difficult but pivotal role...
...know that's going to play out in terms of physical characteristics, or maybe an accent or last name," Menendez said...