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...Skillfully interwoven with the story of Hunter McNatt's search for his son are also the stories of people who run across one or the other along the way, and their speech is wonderfully correct. Vinny and Dom, his Boston cops, are a little too pat ("Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd") but they still sound, well, like Boston cops. Sayles also captures the peculiar accents of Appalachia, especially the banter of men who work hard, as when one tells another, "You're so ugly you have to tie a pork chop around your neck just to git the dawg...
...time, Truffaut was the sternest critic on Cahíers du Cinéma, the trumpet and bible of the New Wave, and he introduced Moreau to the company of serious filmmakers and intellectuals that has been her real world ever since. "I found myself among people I understood better," she recalls, "people I wanted to know, people I admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses...
...self-made, self-assured man born in a rural Luzon slum and schooled in law and economics at Manila's Santo Tomas University, Macapagal (pronounced Mah-cah-pah-gahl) showed himself to be more like Magsaysay than any other candidate in getting through to ordinary Filipino voters. Sweeping 46% of the vote in his upset victory, he emerged as an odds-on favorite for the presidency four years hence...
...Brooklynites say woik for work, but so do a lot of Southerners. Many Southerners say cah for car, and so do Bostonians...
...entering student officers are, in a qualified sense, Harvard men. This entails several responsibilities. No longer will you take the subway or tube over the Charles River to Park Street. As a Harvard man--in a qualified sense--you take the "cah over the Chahles to Pahk." As a pro tem and pseudo Crimson student you may move only in strict channels so far as relations with women are concerned. Those channels are Radcliffe, Pine Manor, and Wellesley. You may date a Radcliffe girl, but the chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will...