Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic expansion; a day on the mountain reminds us that the natural world is a place of limits, of cyclical time, of death. Though it links the world in a "global village," TV erodes the sense of community, both by obliterating regional distinctions (all anchormen have the same accent) and by lampooning the community of shared values portrayed by TV in the '50s. The medium fosters a "weirdly foreshortened" sense of history by endlessly reliving and re-examining the past 40 years (the period, of course, in which television has existed). The effect is to make the past four decades...
Difference is not always a problem. Hung Nguyen was a 16-year-old Vietnamese refugee who spoke no English when he arrived in 1978 with his family in Armidale, a small town in New South Wales. Now his English has only a slight trace of a Vietnamese accent, and he is training to be a surgeon -- one of Australia's first medical specialists of Vietnamese origin -- in Launceston, Tasmania. He has easily moved into the society he has come to call his own. Nguyen's sister married an Australian of Irish descent; one of his friends is a Greek...
Anderson and Merritt choose to keep the play uncomplicated. The direction focuses on the actors, and there is no abstract imagery thrown in to complicate the plot and take precedence over the acting. Instead, Anderson's cleverly designed stage and Robert Burn's wonderful costumes effectively accent the stellar performances of the cast...
...acting is spontaneous and technically excellent. Brad Rouse and Jennifer Giering shine in their roles as Paul and Elsie. Their rich voices complement convincing character portrayals. George Torbay brings boyish enthusiasm and a distinctive British accent to his wonderful portrayal of Rommilly's father, James. And Nancy K. Anderson lends the character Sarah a haunting persona and a soaring voice. Katie Guillory, Michael Stone, Richard Similio and Steve Peterson are equally impressive with their strong stage presences...
Euro Disney is not a French adaptation of the company's parks in California and Florida. The Gallic accent is muted. There is no Moliere's Magic Theater, no Mad Marcel Proust's teacup ride. Euro Disney is the familiar all-American park somehow landed on 5,000 acres of wheat fields and beet fields in Marne- la-Vallee, 20 miles east of Paris. The attractions do not presume to explain Europe to Europe; instead they celebrate America the bland and beautiful, and reinvent it, Disney-style. Hence the transcontinental, cross- cultural ruckus...