Word: lilt
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...Women on the Moon, a parody of the already camp Zsa Zsa Gabor epic Queen of Outer Space. Books: "Irving Sidney's" First Lady of the Evening, in which the President marries a hooker. TV: commercials for a synthetic hors d'oeuvre called Silly Pate and for the laundered lilt of Black Singer Don ("No Soul") Simmons. The whole thing has the offhand lunacy of Phi Beta frat boys on spring break. Don't miss...
...speaks with a Southern lilt, one has a Boston brogue, one a patrician richness, one a Western twang. They represent four different regions of the country, reflect four distinct personal styles and stand for four divergent political traditions. Their total years in the nation's service come to 128, and with their retirement this year, they are each closing a chapter in the history of Congress. Russell Long of Louisiana is the sharp, smooth-talking, back-room Senate insider; Barry Goldwater is the quixotic loner whose conservatism was ahead of its time; Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland...
...gold and come up with a few weakly glinting bits. The Enchanter offers us flaccid auxiliary characters and a descriptive style which--although recognizably Nabokov's in its wit and lilt--becomes self-indulgently poetic and sinks into monotony...
...time -- Was it really just 20, 22 years ago? -- Liverpool seemed about the hippest place on earth. Adoptive kid brothers of Lennon and McCartney made pilgrimages to the Cavern, to Brian Epstein's record store, to the holy homes of the Fab Four. Teenagers from Connecticut assumed the adenoidal lilt of the Mersey accent and recited lines from A Hard Day's Night with the fervor of mimic acolytes. It was not only the Beatles' music that inspired this love for all things Liverpudlian. It was the discovery of an English city -- working class and influenced by Irish and American...
...Cary. Smart people with sin-deep problems walk through a muggerless Central Park. Money worries are for comic relief. Cocktail-party chat is about something wittier than property values in Quogue. % You will find no filthy streets, colicky children or subway Rambos here. Instead, there is the invigorating lilt of spring in the air, and love and the Chrysler Building are just around every corner. No wonder New Yorkers love Woody Allen pictures: he makes retro-romances for the nostalgic urbanite...