Word: accents
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...about it. Daniels had the sense not to meddle too much with the play or its conventional performance style, to let it stretch out to its own onerous length of three hours and shoulder its own inexplicable burden of a housemaid's scattered cameos and her inevitably painful Irish accent. The play stands by itself, an unblinking testament to all-American dysfunction at the very site, the vacation home, where family togetherness is supposed to be at its best. Fortunately for us, this timeworn standard serves as a steady summit from which innovative actors like Camp, and occasionally Stuhlbarg...
...Shachar '96 is a self-described slave to his passions. His internal masters are many, ranging from the athletic to the intellectual to the interpersonal. He speaks about them in measured words, in an accent that ever so slightly reveals his Israeli origins and years spent in South Africa...
Clete D. Johnson '96 delivered the Harvard oration and said that his experience at the College had taught him to be proud rather than ashamed of his background and accent from Royston...
...books, two of the books, none of the books--makes no difference," Elliott recalled the professor responding in a heavy Italian accent...
...some form of regular exercise, if only calisthenics. As a group of us waited outside the I.A.B. to sign up for one of the courses that would satisfy this requirement, one member of the group--a young man of obvious refinement and sophistication-- delivered, in a charming middle-European accent, an extended jeremiad on the barbarous nature of a requirement so blatantly out of keeping with academic values and with civilized behavior in general...