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...shake that thing." It?s break from earlier Charles work was evident from the first note -on an electric piano that sounded like a guitar with a mitten muffling the strings. It was blues, all right, but (like so much other Atlantic music of the period) with a Latin accent, thanks to great cymbal, conga and stick work by Milt Turner. It featured his urgent vocal, but not until almost 50 seconds into the song. And where was Fathead?s mandatory solo? Withheld; he played the final choruses, behind the Raelets, on part ". The complex simplicity of the number made...
...Mississippi, to hear Eudora Welty read from her works was as prized as a pair of tickets to the state's Egg Bowl, the annual gridiron classic between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University. That strong Southern accent delivered with her unique inflections drew her audience to a special place. The grande dame of American literature died Monday in a Jackson, Miss., hospital near the family home where she had lived for almost all of her 92 years. She was hospitalized with pneumonia on Saturday...
...family den, we huddled beneath a damp towel and looked out at the Pamela Andersons and David Hasselhoffs of the world. Like vampires, we sucked our Pepsi contentedly from our lair and cautiously applied a second layer of Coppertone. I felt compelled to shout out something in a British accent to the nearby tourists who were ogling us in order to justify my alien behavior...
...bomb attack, Dec. 7. In Japan, the calendar flips to Dec. 8, which was the date of the attack, Tokyo time. Scenes involving Mako, the Japanese-American actor who plays Yamamoto, were rerecorded for Japan. "No one in the States would notice he spoke Japanese with an American accent," says Sano, "but they would here...
...filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch, son of tycoon Rupert, on the excuse that he was born in England and holds an American passport?and, presumably, can speak English better than Kylie Minogue, who also declined to comment. We even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark. She was "in rehearsal." Thank heaven for writers. "If you think of the innumerable regional accents of English-speaking Yanks, Anglos, Aussies and Asians, including the phonetically unimpressive Mr. Mahathir," comments TIME critic Robert Hughes, author of The Fatal Shore, a history of Australia...