Word: drawlã
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...opening scenes of the show, Elmo’s mother loses her job and has to explain to Elmo—in a slow, Southern drawl??why she’ll be at home more often. After a series of questions by Elmo—Is it Elmo’s fault? Did Elmo buy too many toys? Will Elmo have to move?—the characters travel around the neighborhood to learn lessons from four real families dealing with similar changes...
...school it is today—a place of legacy, tradition, old money and high class. Later in life, the irascible, excitable president would recall that he had been something of an eccentric during his collegiate days. Never able to master the drawn-out “Harvard drawl?? or careless “Harvard swing” that would characterize upper-class cool at the time, he pursued boxing, rowing and bird-watching with fanaticism and kept a zoo with lobsters, snakes and a tortoise, according to the Harvard Guide. Though it would be decades until...
...that of his favorite character on The Brady Bunch, converting from Hinduism to Christianity as a senior in high school (and later asking his wife to do the same), attending Brown University and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, working as a consultant at McKinsey, and adopting a flat Louisiana drawl??the only part of “Indian-American” he embodies lies after the hyphen...
...slight adjustments to the script overcome any lingering barriers of temporal culture. For example, company veteran Remo Airaldi delivers a new thoughtful and amusing prologue in rhyme. Furthermore the actors forgo the standard drone, which so often hold back productions of older material, in favor of a soothing Virginia drawl??which they generally pull...
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