Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to get people together," he says in a heavy Carribean accent. "Wake up! Let's get together. Do not blame people, let's move...
...acting. E.G. Marshall plays a cranky Jacob Brackish with vigor and sternness. His Brackish is complex enough that you're never quite sure whether he is difficult because he's malicious or just because he has high standards. Maryann Plunkett had the audience laughing at her "wicked cool" Massachusetts accent from the moment she walks onstage. She demonstrates great range as Kathleen Hogan, sometimes crumpled in tears on her bed, other times ironing fanatically or gleefully switching the radio station to rap music when Brackish's hearing aid stops working. Often unintentionally funny ("my husband's a short order cook...
Soon, a human voice greets the caller with a Bostonian "Hah-vahd," or perhaps this year's brand new South African accent, and help...
...roomate is aplying for a Rhodes scholarship. He has affected a British accent and will eat only kippers for breakfast. He addresses everyone as chap or my good fellow. I think he's full of shit and I'm ready to kill him. Is there a particularly British way of killing someone? Damn Yankee...
...happy time to be a Texan. John Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas in November of 1963. I was in college and I assure you, going to school in Massachusetts with a Texas accent was not a lot of fun. One of the first things I learned to do was speak without a Texas accent...