Word: lilt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...portrayal of Golda Meir will have on young Israeli women-or old Israeli politicians for that matter. Coaxed out of retirement to play the late Israeli leader in the Operation Prime Time TV movie, A Woman Called Golda, to be aired next May, Bergman managed to fold a Yiddish lilt into her husky Swedish whisper. Though the actress spent hours watching news and documentary footage of Golda, she only saw the grande dame of Israeli politics brighten once-in an old segment of TV's This Is Your Life. "They were all so serious, those films," says Bergman...
Squeers' swinish daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg. By sulking or shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...
...Life. Ireland's Hugh Leonard translates a man's anguishing pain into poetry and the lilt of mocking laughter...
...shoppers, knowing none of this, remain silent and still until the music fades. Chimes signal the start of the business day, and holiday carols lilt over the sound system. Women who have finished their coffee and turned to the turtlnecks and ties dart toward other departments. And the waitress wheels the cart away...