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...Objection! How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System (Hyperion). Galley Girl caught up with her by phone in the CNN makeup room, waiting to do her show. Grace is nothing if not precise, answering questions in her twangy Southern accent as though she were on the witness stand...
...latter show, Lowe predicts he will take part in “a gay love affair with Teri Hatcher’s boyfriend. He’ll meet me and decide that he is questioning his sexuality. He’ll fall for my British accent...
...drama pushed her over the bridge to nida straight out of Presbyterian Ladies' College. At acting school, the most useful tool learned was phonetics, she says, "which basically means if I'm on a bus anywhere in the world and I hear someone talking with a fantastic accent, I can write down on a piece of paper how that person is talking, and later be in that accent...
Visitors to new zealand these days might be excused for wondering if it really is English they speak there. The accent is but a minor distraction; it's the words that stop newcomers in their tracks. Newspapers refer casually to tikanga (Maori culture) and kaupapa (philosophy or plan). TV hosts open and close their shows with haere mai (welcome) and ka kite ano (see you later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after...
...West Point, he probably would have been president of a fraternity. He is pathologically social, both liked and looked up to by fellow cadets, especially those who bleed Army green. "Z?" they say. "He's huah," delivering the words with the appropriate Southern drawl--"heezoowah"--as though a Northern accent wouldn't do justice to someone so ... infantry. Upperclassmen give him equal deference. One of his fellow cadets asks him, straight-faced, "Can I still call you Z when you're a general...