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...almost stopped noticing her theatrical gestures and her peculiar style of speech: "Never having cared to ask her about it, Richard had had fantasies of an Andorran nanny, a childhood in a posh Albanian household that had left no other mark, before concluding that Cordelia just spoke Cordelian, a pronunciational idiolect." When friends mock the way she says her name ("Nggornndeenlia"), Richard tries not to be amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Love Beats Bad Poetry | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...flock on stage, to sly soft-voiced asides to the audience explaining his true despicable motives. In the role of Chume, Akin Adewole '66 was as athletic and skilled at fighting with his wife as he was playing line-man for the Crimson soccer team this fall. And Cordelian Mbawuike was completely convincing as his ferocious spouse--especially in the scene in which she cried to bystanders, "He is going to kill me!" while she gave him a beating...

Author: By Jonathan Schell, | Title: Hard Fact | 4/20/1965 | See Source »

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