Word: lilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenes in each. So a mere adjustment in her accent would seem a snap for her first stage role, in The Palace of Amateurs, which opens in two weeks in Dallas. At first, though, the Idaho-born actress may have pressed a bit too hard for a convincing Dixie lilt. She listened to tapes of deep-fried drawls and had long conversations with Southerners in her neighborhood. Says Hemingway: "For a week I made a total fool of myself trying to speak Southern...
...these new designers, speaks intensely about "getting down to the essence of shapelessness, formlessness and colorlessness." At first glance, her men's and women's clothes for Comme des Garçons (the name means "like the boys" and was chosen by Kawakubo for both its lilt and its casual defiance of traditional gender stereotypes) resemble items from a thrift shop at the far corner of Macbeth's blasted heath. Nonetheless, they have an ease that confounds traditional expectations of elegance...
...figure in an American basketball tournament is not farfetched enough, Akeem became the first man of any nationality to mention education at the Final Four. When he called home Sunday, none of the conversation was wasted on trivialities. "My parents don't know about basketball," said Olajuwon, whose lilt brings back the beautiful Nigerian prizefighter Dick Tiger. "They ask about education. Some day I plan to go into commodities, but you need money to make money." The N.B.A., then? "Ah," he said...
...director with a sometime taste for the reckless moment. Polanski, who will direct the play, which stars Francois Périer, 62, as Mozart's nemesis Antonio Salieri, and Actress Sonia Vollereaux, 22, as Mozart's wife, has been taking crash diction courses to smooth the Polish lilt from his French. "I have no problem directing myself because I am a very obedient actor," observes Polanski. "It's much easier to direct while acting than to act while directing. Directing is extremely difficult because you have to pay attention to everything and everyone at once. But acting...
...structural scheme. It wanders through a series of tony boîtes, boutiques and hotel lobbies in the vagrant hope of witnessing a privileged moment. Those are likely to occur only when Hepburn is onscreen. At 52, the eternal gamine has become a figure of icy chic; the lilt in her voice now has the gravity of years; she has barely a line to speak in the film's first hour, and too many silly words in the second. But she is still a radiant presence, and she blesses the end of They All Laughed with a display...