Word: accents
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...brothers, Lucille Ball and, standing in for his dad, Desi Arnaz Jr.). But theirs is a ^ story of wanting, not necessarily getting. In Cynthia Cidre's witty, synoptic screenplay, The Mambo Kings becomes a parable about the intoxication of dreaming of success; it's The Commitments with a Cuban accent...
Loyalty has paid off for Green, who will move into his new offices in Massachusetts Hall on July 1. Those who encounter the new provost there can expect to meet with a short. Mild-mannered, partly bald Jewish man whose voice still carries remnants of a New York accent...
...conversation was awkward at first, but we soon fell into the old routine of friendship. Neither of us has changed much in two years, although she says my accent is more East Coast than before...
...lecture, Spiegelman playedone of the tapes he made of his father. In astrong Eastern European accent, Vladek recalledthe words he said to his wife during...
...pronounced "All-aaay" because of the accent marks. Most American tourists would probably pronounce it as my mother did--"All-eeee," the last two vowels falling flat and eliciting a smirk from any self-respecting French speaker. Most Americans save themselves the embarrassment--they never make it past the walls of the old city...