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...comic-book artist, he is a college dropout, a self-taught physicist and mechanical engineer with a handful of honorary doctorates, a multimillionaire who wears the same outfit for every occasion: blue jeans, a blue work shirt and a pair of Timberland boots. With the accent of his native Long Island, he speaks slowly, passionately--and endlessly. "If you ask Dean the time," Doerr chides, "he'll first explain the theory of general relativity, then how to build an atomic clock, and then, maybe, he'll tell you what time...
...classical performer. (Previous arts fellows include avant-garde jazzman Ornette Coleman, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, indie filmmaker John Sayles and The Lion King's Julie Taymor.) "It was a complete surprise and a total shock," he says, with happy amazement warming up his well-bred English accent...
...delivery of the language. Jason T. Fitzgerald ’04, playing doomed victim Jonathan Harker lends a cadence and lucidity to the nonsense he spews. And David N. Huyssen ’02, playing Dracula sans black cape (it’s white!) but with a dynamite Transylvanian accent, releases sentences into the air with such surety and depth that they linger like smoke rings...
...We’ve taken dates to New York, Montreal, wherever the moment is taking us,” he chimed in, in his thick Polish accent...
Menino, speaking with his strong Boston accent, did not at first reach the people in the back of the room. He then virtually shouted the rest of his speech into the microphone, however, enabling the core of his message to be heard...