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...least half mocking her, as Dan Aykroyd did on Saturday Night Live. The first time I saw her, the TV must have been on PBS when my dad left the room. There she was, a 6-ft. 2-in. matronly woman with a warbling New England--inflected accent that Katharine Hepburn would have found snobby. And yet, even to my teenage brain, she was clearly a badass. She explained sides of beef by pointing to her own body. She tore at suckling-pig ribs with her giant bare hands. She never edited out any of her mistakes, showing...
Perhaps it’s nostalgia or, more likely, the product of obliviousness in my younger days, but Red Sox fans weren’t always this way. Sure, they were never cute or cuddly, and their collective accent has always registered as foreign and plebeian to the New York ear, but those differences never seemed to constitute an unbridgeable...
Inside, Scion aims for the sport-tuner look and basically gets it right. The instrument panel is cleanly laid out; chrome finishes accent the door handles and vent dials. A panorama sunroof, treated to reduce UV rays and interior temperature, lends an airy feel to the tight quarters. Scion rounds out the standard package with air conditioning, cruise control, power windows and mirrors, keyless entry and a 160-watt stereo...
With her exotic south African accent, Heinz Kerry addressed the crowd in her five languages, explaining that she has come to cherish her own “right to speak [her] mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called ‘opinionated’...but instead of being labeled opinionated, will be called smart or well-informed, just...
...mischievous late afternoon sun hasn’t camouflaged a light switch, but no luck. The cabin lies on a small man-made lake filled with fish bred by the owner, Booker, a German man who immigrated in the ’60s and has held onto a heavy accent and a smoky cackle. (Do a lot of backpackers come through here? “No, mostly city couples foh dirty veekends. Heh heh heh heh!”) He says the fish don’t bite much in winter but I had come at the luckiest time, early...