Word: accents
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...were to create a model for Globalization Man, he'd look a lot like Francois Woo. Woo's surname and taste for Cantonese food reflect his family's origins, three generations ago, in Guangdong province in southern China. His first name and French accent reflect the European culture of his adopted home on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. His children are at college in Perth, Boston and, soon, London. And his $200 million-per-year business is a microcosm of globalization in action. It buys raw cotton from Asia and Africa, ships it to Mauritius, spins it into yarn...
...There weren't too many notes for Steinmeier to miss, however. Supported by Muhabbet and seven background singers, Steinmeier and Kouchner merely had to repeat the word Deutschland (Germany) over and over again, with a slight variation at the end where the word for Kouchner's sake - whose French accent added some extra exotic charm to the song - was substituted with Frankreich (France...
There is only one possible complaint about this scene. Clark’s execution of Big Daddy is flawless—he is every inch the crude-mouthed monarch of his family—but he has not quite acquired the Southern accent. Especially when he lectures from an arm chair, Big Daddy comes off more as The Godfather than a Mississippi aristocrat...
...everyone told me it was easy.RR: If you’ve had no experience acting, how did you get cast?BC: That is a very good question. They were looking for a giant bigot and couldn’t find anyone else. And I have a terrible southern accent. I’m from North Jersey. But in South Jersey people actually do have accents, those Pineys. That was all the research I needed to do.David J. Smolinsky ’11 RR: Tell me about your character.DS: Well, Brick is a drunken ex-football player/announcer. He?...
...fluorescent-lit cubicles of a Mumbai call center, the young Indians in this documentary sell Americans cell phones and novelty pancake molds, and in turn they are sold a dream: lose your accent, gain prosperity. A fascinating snapshot of globalization in which East meets West a few seconds at a time, half a globe and a few numbers away...