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...doesn't expect Dr. Frankenstein to show up in wool sweater, baggy parka, soft British accent and the face of a bank clerk. But there in all banal benignity he was: Dr. Ian Wilmut, the first man to create fully formed life from adult body parts since Mary Shelley's mad scientist...
...most part, it's just vandalism," said Jay A. Avery, division head for Accent Banner, the owner of the Flag Center on 2267 Mass. Ave. "Some stores had their windows smashed and nothing taken...
...past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny--did not seem to diminish him, partly because he exuded enormous energy and sharp focus...
Only after eating spoonfuls of dog food and reciting Hamlet with a Scottish accent did the Academy Award-winning actor receive the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' annual prize...
...hope the press has finished its spasm of self-flagellation over the possibility that Paula Corbin Jones was not taken seriously because reporters with Ivy League airs disdained her clothes and hairstyle and accent. I was not looking forward to inspecting everything I've written in the past few years for signs of class bias...