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...illustrate a point, he puts on a ska CD; his nervous energy channeled to a beat: "skaskaska, skavoovie." He draws out the syllable in a luxuriant Jamaican accent. It's one of many voices he slips into during the interview, punctuating his narration with other people's lives and sounds...
...what's a woman to do? For Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the answer has been to use will, charm and provocation to become one of the capital's leading conservative lights. "In the last few months, I started literally waking up with these columns," she purrs in a cadenced Greek accent. Prominent newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, have been happy to publish her. And while Senate majority leader Bob Dole, whom she's pronounced unelectable as President, might wish she had rolled over and gone back to sleep or back home to Santa Barbara, California, Republican Washington is agog...
From his drab suburban birthplace in South London, Amis did well enough at his schooling to win a place at Oxford in 1941. From that point on, the old story should have followed without a hitch: lower-middle-class lad knuckles his forehead in gratitude and takes on the accent, manners and tastes of his social betters. Amis, however, whose education was interrupted by four years of service in the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, returned to Oxford with no intention of kowtowing to the prevailing dogmas. He and his friend Philip Larkin, another scholarship...
...print. It also established the author's basic comic strategy: a beleaguered hero tries to behave inoffensively among people whose self-centered behavior drives him privately mad. This formula still sparkled in The Russian Girl (1994), in which a husband meditates on his wife's odd and affected accent: "After a time he had stopped noticing it at all more than a couple of times a day, and for years had given up speculating what speech-sounds she might make if, for example, he were to creep up behind her and fire a loaded revolver past...
DIED. MARY WICKES, 79, character actress; in Burbank, California. Hard to name but easy to recognize, Wickes was the tart-tongued accent to 50 years of pop culture: stage work like The Man Who Came to Dinner and Oklahoma, TV turns from I Love Lucy to M*A*S*H and more than 50 films, including classics like Now Voyager and recent hits like Little Women and Sister...