Word: drawl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talks about her remarkable career in Washington, perhaps because she rarely does. Any mention of three decades serving three Presidents and thawing Lean Cuisine for husband Senator Bob Dole at their Watergate apartment is drowned out by her frequent recital of local credentials in aresurgent drawl: her 1994 North Carolinian of the Year award, her degree from Duke and, of course, her mother, whose house she recently bought, making Dole the best kind of North Carolinian, a landowner. "My roots are deep. I've been here constantly," she says constantly, as if being graded on attendance...
...instead of the thousand he once earned, he was man enough to show up. He had some country hits in the '60s, and in 1968 played Iago in the L.A. production of an "Othello" musical called "Catch My Soul"; he spoke the lines word-perfect, in his deep bayou drawl, and stole the show. "This Shakespeare was really somethin," he told the L.A. Times. "I wonder what he woulda thought of my records...
Billings also keeps busy singing bass in his local choir and lending his reassuring drawl to voice-overs for documentaries. And he hasn’t forgotten his early pursuits—he now acts in and directs shows at the Alameda Repertory Theater, which he founded, and writes editorials for his local newspaper...
...Throughout my career, public and private, there have been two things I have had an unwavering commitment to,” the Mississippi native began in flawless Southern drawl, giving a Clinton-esque thumbs...
...worked very hard to get where I am," she says in her intimate drawl. And she has arrived there at an age (she will be 44 this month) when so many actresses are wistfully thinking of where they have been, because where they are is on the unemployment line...