Word: drawling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy, Robards turns out to be strictly middleweight. His lean features and nasal drawl are foreign to the squat Neapolitan hustler. Occasionally, someone in the cast does lend an air of authenticity, notably Ralph Meeker as Moran and David Canary as a flat-faced machine gunner who seems to have stepped out of a lineup onto the set. But all too often the period costumes and a fleet of chuffing phaetons, landaus and flivvers look like the only genuine articles on view...
Question (delivered sternly, cum drawl): Do you know who drafted the 13th Amendment to the Yew-nited States Constitution...
...Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
With this understatement, made all the more gentle by his rich Mississippi drawl, Senator John Stennis last week extended a bit of senatorial courtesy to Senator Thomas Dodd: he gave him an advance copy of the Stennis Committee's report on Dodd's conduct...
Whatever his financial arrangements, Actor Eastwood, the sometime star of television's Rawhide, is certainly not paid by the word. In Fistful he hardly talks at all. Doesn't shave, either. Just drawls orders. Sometimes the bad guys drawl back. Just as tersely. Trouble is, after they stop talking, their lips keep moving. That's because the picture is dubbed. Like the villains, it was shot in Spain. Pity it wasn't buried there...