Word: drawl
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Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...
With his gray Resistol hat and black ostrich-skin boots, the folksy gubernatorial candidate working the food line in a Tyler cafeteria last week looked every bit the old-time Texas cowboy that he is. And the campaign pledges that he rattled off in a gravelly West Texas drawl were just what plenty of voters in the Lone Star State want to hear...
...wasn't very successful. The game was on the line. This blond guy with the drawl turned the ball over three times. I shook my head in disgust and prepared to leave, two months of research down the drain...
What I saw was an aw-shucks style, enhanced by Babbit's drawl and the way he would summarize a complicated point by explaining exuberantly...
...show at the Louvre. The French buzzed and clucked at the outrageousness of the new upstart. After all, who but Kelly could boast that only eight years ago he was peddling his clothes on the sidewalk of the Boulevard St.-Germain, calling out to passersby in a Mississippi drawl, "Tres chic! Pas cher!"? Now he's selling on four continents. "Patrick is refreshing because he isn't trying to be divine," says Mary Ann Wheaton, who runs Kelly's worldwide operations...