Word: accents
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...fire and eloquence but sometimes turned them off with tactless blunders and goofs, like when he famously snapped at a voter before a C-SPAN camera and noted that in Delaware "you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." In January 2007, on the day he launched his own presidential campaign, he was quoted in a newspaper describing Obama as "the first mainstream African-American [presidential candidate] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking...
...Gwyneth Paltrow? I think that perhaps you're thinking of Gwyneth as a macrobiotic vegan who is too thin for her own good. Gwyneth is a delightful person to hang around with. She also spent time in high school in Spain and speaks with a much more beautiful accent than...
...highest-paying literary awards. But Dovey, who spent her college years immersed in film and farms rather than fiction, is certainly not the stereotypical writer-prodigy. The budding author took some time to chat with FM about her past exploits and present pursuits.1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): With that accent of yours, you can’t be a Boston native. Where are you from? Ceridwen Dovey (CD): That’s a long, messy story. I grew up in Australia and South Africa. My family moved back and forth between the years of 1982 and 1987 about three times. After...
...These days, she lives in Paris and shuttles often to Hong Kong, producing work that typically melds classical European influences with a minimalist aesthetic. But despite the impression given by her Italian accent - and works like a series of animated shorts inspired by the chapters of Dante's Divine Comedy - she considers herself "completely a Chinese artist...
...takes questions in Loughborough or chats to trainees learning to strip down truck engines at an apprenticeship scheme in the neighboring constituency, that's exactly how Cameron comes across. It's cleverly pitched. He doesn't conceal his heritage (or flatten his upper-class accent); he finesses it. His interlocutors don't feel patronized - they sense that he understands them and cares about what they care about...