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...feel your pain.... C'mon children. Stop it or I'll take your Pell grants away," Buchanan yelled in a mocking Southern accent as the protesters interrupted his speech, shouting "Go away! Racist, bigot, anti...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buchanan Stumps for Massachusetts Primary | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

Sliding with smooth facility from jealous to tender, maternal to monstrous, Silje Normand cradles her sleeping lover in one of the play's most emotive and best-written segments. Her manner is stylishly minimalist and her accent, which vanishes and reappears at random, is delightful. Normand skillfully handles what is probably the most overtly melodramatic line in the play, screaming, with a sudden viciousness, "I want to strangle your dreams inside...

Author: By Nina Kang, | Title: Ignoble 'Savage' Flails and Fails | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...really hard for me!" he says, laughing. "So what's available? I got myself a nicer home, and that's about it. And I went out and bought my parents a house too. I felt like one of those sports guys, you know"--he puts on a dumb-jock accent--"'Duh, I bought a house for my parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH STAKES WINNERS | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...would take Tomas' class even if he were teaching contemporary mathematics just to hear his accent and his comments about the Irish people," Hook says. "He always works them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Irish Mythology Thrills Lit. and Arts Students | 2/4/1996 | See Source »

...sometimes, and it...keeps you on your toes...It's like you're straining for something you can't force, so you never know when it's going to happen. It can be really tough sometimes, when you're like"--and for the first time in the interview, the accent that Natchez adopts is forceful, but his own--"'Dammit, this is the same shit I've been playing for two years. Why can't I learn something new? Why can't I get better? I think I could...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: SKAVOOVIE! | 2/3/1996 | See Source »

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