Word: accents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...miles away from home, was very attractive.But he said Harvard was unlike any place he had been before.“I felt, stepping onto the campus, like I was 3,000 miles away,” Fitzsimmons said. “For one thing, everyone else had an accent.”Fitzsimmons, who had been recruited by other schools, including Brown and Boston University, as an ice hockey goalie, said he ultimately chose Harvard because of its academic reputation and renowned faculty and student body. He also said he thought it would be a good fit even...
...Hell no. They threw me out. Here I am, a southern country girl, so I was easy to write off as a stupid kid. I still had my accent - I have it when I go home, but I hadn't learned how to disguise it. I raised the issue of class differences between women and racial differences. At this point this was really quite an important band of women in America, but not necessarily representative of all women's concerns. Then, of course, I raised the issue of gay women. That was all it took. [Betty Friedan...
Another Shi'ite guerrilla fighter interviewed by TIME offered a similar account, though he considered his group nationalist rather than sectarian. Says Abu Mohammed of his trainers in Iran: "They all speak perfect Arabic with a Lebanese accent. But we found out when we asked that they are either Quds Force or Iranian intelligence." Mohammed and his group, however, later lost interest in attacking coalition troops and eventually parted ways with their Iranian handlers...
...consuming wife who is oblivious to her husband’s sudden change in character. Brosnan is equally nuanced as the worst best friend who tries to take away the girl. 007 is a convincing Casanova at whatever age, even though he has to pull it off without the accent. Harry’s emotional crisis sets off subsequent emotional conflicts that affect each of the four two-faced leading characters. Writer and director Ira Sachs suggests that married life is a web of emotions that makes people deceive their loved ones. The movie itself is a deception, however; marriage...
...accompanied by traditional Indian instruments. The show was also punctuated by a number of short sketches about South Asian stereotypes, including a protracted bit about stereotypically protective Indian parents and their kids. In a particularly memorable and amusing monologue, Shankar Ramaswamy ’11 adopted a stereotypical Indian accent only to defend it by impersonating varying American accents and impugning the audience for laughing at him. When we laugh at him, Shankar says, he laughs back. In another skit, two of the many non-South-Asian performers discussed the glamorous, festive image of India. Stepping off the plane...