Word: dictional
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...CABLE GUY (June 14). Then again, the $20 million that Columbia paid Jim Carrey to appear in this comedy of obsession looks like the summer's canniest investment. With loose-dentured diction and bodice-ripping devotion, he leeches onto mild-mannered Matthew Broderick. Only a genius of goonery, an Ace Caricatura like Carrey, could play an egregious pest and make him appealing--at least for the 2 min. 25 sec. of the trailer...
...prime example is a minor strategy debate between the characters who represent Al From, the head of the Democratic Leadership Council, and Frank Greer, Clinton's first media adviser. I have known Greer for 20 years, and I can testify that Primary Colors captures his Southern good ole boy diction with preternatural precision. Who but a campaign staff member could have known that Greer's influence began to wane the second Clinton saw him as too much the orthodox liberal Democrat...
...breaking through the clutter. The ad is designed to feature him as the easy-listening alternative to his shriller, more dour rivals. He's banking on his likability, trusting that voters have forgotten that he was the first Republican to go negative months ago. Another problem: his schoolteacherish diction seems designed to appeal to fifth-graders, and they can't vote in primaries...
...Cantabrigian String Quartet, composed of Harvard students Akiko Tarumoto '98, Rebecca Baumann '98, Philip Kim '98, and Ellis Verosub '98, gave a clear, intelligent rendition of Harbison's quartet. In the Chorale Cantata, which concluded the evening, soprano Awet Andemicael '96 displayed her usual lovely tone and crisp diction. She was accompanied by an ensemble composed of Salley Koo '97 and Stephanie Misono '98, violins; Peter Kim '96, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan '98, cello; and Andrew Cowan '96, bass. Oboist Daniel P. Kim '97 handled his several solos with penetrating clarity and a strong tone...
Wayne Vargas, the prosecutor, could take the Dershowitz part in the upcoming O.J. rock opera, but he and nearly everyone else on stage must bow to the diction and dash of Douglas Miller's judge. Miller, as Harvard's G&S fans know, could make a career breathing life into these archaic operettas. He presides over the court-room chaos with the imperturbility of Victoria on her throne and is equally game to hop from his bench for "Trial by Jury's" spirited polka climax...