Word: drawled
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...cast meeting, Cohen gave an impromptu preview of her role in VM as a sixty-something lady who has resisted becoming close to a man after her first orgasm at age 20 and now has reluctantly submitted to an interview on her sexuality. In a convincing if inconsistent Brooklyn drawl, Cohen delivered her monologue with a stage confidence that revealed her expansive experience as a Spoken Word performance poet. Comparing her vagina to a “cellar” (a part of the house that “no one talks about”), Cohen’s character...
While Cosby did not attend the afternoon proceedings, he did perform a forty-minute comedy routine at the evening dinner party. Speaking in his famously slow and contemplative drawl, Cosby played to the crowd, riffing on the medical profession, his fear of vaccinations, and the hilarious perils...
...While unique, Jenkins' experience mirrored the bleak existence that North Koreans have lived through. Ordinary citizens are similarly terrorized and watched over by "leaders" directed by the ruling Workers' Party. Hunger and deprivation are the norm. Speaking in his barely intelligible rural Carolina drawl, Jenkins says North Korean society is "backwards." He seems, even now, like a man on the verge of collapse, his voice cracking as he recalls painful memories. He frequently breaks down in tears...
...That raspy drawl, the salt-and-pepper hair, a doughnut-stuffed belly hanging over his belt. Others in Primary Colors tried to steer clear of real-life inspiration; John Travolta became a Bill Clinton clone. It took weeks to master the familiar vocal cadence and body language, but the feel-your-pain sincerity came easier. 'The scary thing about this part is, take away the Southern accent and gray hair, and I don't respond that differently to people,' he says ... 'I'm good at schmoozing and being very caring and tolerant, which is just what Clinton does...
Arden Anlian, a GW sophomore from New Mexico, stood next to Dierker. “Our campus is pretty dang liberal,” she sang in a southwestern drawl. A red, white and blue streamer dangled from her hand. “We’re not a very big athletic school, but when it comes to politics we are hardcore...