Word: accents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Different Voice suggested that their are two ways of thinking about questions of morality, called by Gilligan the "care voice" and the "justice voice." While the justice voice tends to accent abstract principles and laws as reasons for moral behavior, the care voice deals more with emotions and relationships between people...
...name tag is as inviting as he is. "How are you today?" asks the man whose tag curiously reads, 'Wernher P.' And for about the thousandth time, his thick, French/Creole accent betraying his Haitian heritage, he inquires, "What would you like...
...however, urges David to accept his good fortune as the result of hard work. Caplow's superb performance is clouded only by his struggling effort at an foreign accent...
Little Man Tate isn't all French. It speaks with a distinctly American accent; it saunters where a French film might slouch. Foster has worked for some superfine American directors -- among them Martin Scorsese (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Taxi Driver), Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused), Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) -- and this movie indicates that she paid attention. A pool-hall montage, all slow-mo and Saturn-ringed balls and electric-blue vectors, plays like a fast tribute to Scorsese's The Color of Money...
Nash, an actor and Adams resident who is Irish by birth, embarked with gusto on his reading, modulating his accent according to which character he was reading...