Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed to be having a lot of fun," he recalls, "while I was dreading getting ready for school every day. It's just that simple." After his sophomore year he abandoned football and debating and got a job at a local radio station. He never studied voice or diction, and during a stint at Southeast Missouri State University he flunked Speech 101, because he did not outline his speeches. And for the next decade, his career sounded more like crr-rash! He was fired from four Pennsylvania and Missouri radio stations and, after a five-year stint, from the marketing...
...other hand, Mark Fish, playing Algernon Moncrieff, seemed completely at home. Although he could have tried for a little more eye contact with whomever he was talking to, and although his diction seemed a little muffled, these points did not disturb the audience's credulity...
Smith's lines are humorous and witty; her acting is pure entertainment. She skillfully recreates conversational tone and diction, complete with all the repetitions, stutters and facial expressions. She also has a precise sense of timing...
...Perot's followers into the Democratic fold. Late in the afternoon, when some aides complained that the speech was too long, the candidate defended it by claiming that it had fewer words than Michael Dukakis' 1988 oration. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor's text was shorter, and his lightning-fast diction made his delivery time shorter still. In his own laid-back drawl, Clinton took about 55 minutes to deliver his address. Recalling the fiasco of Clinton's interminable 1988 speech, his verbosity last week seemed on the verge of losing his audience, but a powerful delivery and some surefire applause...
...brought to the Metropolitan amounts to a portrait of a company embarking on a cultural shift. Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov are first-rate productions that offer what opera lovers want to hear: Russian classics performed with great depth of detail -- in orchestration, diction and idiomatic style. The Kirov embodies the Russian tradition of opera, which is very different from the Western one. As the maestro says, "The chorus and the orchestra are the hero. The chorus is < stronger than any star, and it must be a single personality divided into a hundred parts...