Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to think Gwyneth Paltrow was a nice blond girl (okay, so a nice, unnaturally blond girl). After all, she always played the victim, always had pretty hair and could carp in a British accent with the best of them. But Gwyneth started to wear on me. I couldn't quite figure out why. And then it all started coming together last month--after she lampooned Sharon Stone's husband on SNL. Stone, unable to contain her boiling rage, burst out with what everyone has been thinking for months: "She lives in a rarefied air that's very thin...
...slightly weird--particularly Minnie Driver's voice-over as Lady Eboshi. Driver's Eboshi is commanding, complex, and fascinating. She delivers her lines with such complete conviction it is hard to believe that the celluloid Eboshi has no voice of her own. But strangely, Driver's voice is obviously British, and Lady Eboshi is clearly not. Using British actors to play "upper classes" is fairly common in American film but is incredibly distracting when the characters are not supposed to be American or British. Coincidental or not, Driver's accent is a somewhat jarring reminder that Princess Mononoke has been...
...than to saving them from physical assaults. A typical sampling of Falwell's rhetoric is the July edition of his National Liberty Journal, in which he wrote that we cannot "blame" genetics for "adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws." Most famously, Falwell urged parents to avoid the British children's program "Teletubbies" because one character, Tinky-Winky, is purple and has an inverted triangle on his head which made him a subversive "gay role model...
DIED. JULIUS NYERERE, 77, statesman and Tanzania's first President; of leukemia; in London. Nyerere led his country to independence from British rule in 1961, united 120 ethnic groups into one country, and was its leader for 23 years. He continued until his death to try to unite Africa--most recently by mediating in a civil war in Burundi...
REVENGE OF THE MUGGLES Harry Potter may sit atop the best seller lists, but parents in South Carolina have asked state school officials to ban the popular children's book series, claiming it promotes witchcraft and sorcery. According to one of the concerned parents, the volumes by British author J.K. Rowling, about an orphaned child who attends the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, contain a "tone of death, hate, lack of respect and sheer evil." State officials have said they will review the books and the recommendation. BUCKLE UP The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week notified automakers...