Word: accents
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...point, she imitated Yeats’s reading with an Irish accent...
Basically no one has a problem with a Southern accent around Harvard. Many people even fake it just to be sexier. Furthermore, there are a ton of Texans at Harvard; they fill up the Southern demographic. I just don’t see how Texans are discriminated against as dumber, or what Texas has to do with making Harvard students more cosmopolitan...
...multimillionaire businesswoman, he wasn't exactly everyone's picture of the Aussie working-class man, though he lost few opportunities to remind people he'd grown up on a Queensland farm. "If he grew up in poverty in rural Queensland," sneered former Labor leader Latham, "where did the posh accent come from?" Advising Rudd to "take the piss" out of himself, his brother Greg reportedly said: "You're just not that sort of personality where people want to spend time with you outside a work issue." But he was a hard worker, and he worked as hard at popularity...
...play?EB: I am Countess Popova. She basically is the tenant who lives downstairs from the main character, and she’s having an affair with him. Actually, she’s having multiple affairs. And so I come on for a couple scenes, talk in a Russian accent, or at least I attempt one, and then kind of leave again.RR: You don’t have any experience with the Russian accent?EB: No, no experience... I mean, besides just messing around, but it’s written into the script, a lot of it. And I think...
...allows them to remain together eternally, through life and death.Although “Love in the Time of Cholera” is much too long and relies on the cliché (imagine “I have bigger fish to fry” being said in a cheap Colombian accent), the inherent splendor and appeal of the story make this a good film, even if it pales in comparison to García Marquez’s novel...