Word: lisp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ecumenism is being dealt a further blow, and the warm humanity of the dead Pope John is being eroded by the ascetic Bishop of Rome who now requires toddlers to lisp in the confessional, "Forgive me. Father, for I have...
...when Mason could barely lisp the word detergent, an advertising woman who lived in the same Manhattan apartment building as his parents auditioned him for an Ivory Snow commercial. He got the job. The first week the tape was telecast the manufacturer received 400 letters - for Mason. After three years of amiably declaiming the virtues of Underwood Chicken Spread, Post Raisin Bran and other products in his preternaturally deep, adenoidal voice, Mason has a fan club and a five-figure savings account, and this year won a Clio award at the American TV and Radio Commercials Festival for the best...
...conversations for posterity. But Nixon had no need to. The Secret Service men who, on his instructions, tapped his telephones and bugged his offices, shunned such gimmicks as radios in martini olives and aimed instead for the clearest possible transmission (or "fidelity") of conversation right down to the last lisp. They tapped the Chief Executive's phones by connecting them directly to the banks of tape recorders in the White House basement. Recording began automatically when the President used a phone in any of three rooms: the Oval Office, the President's office in the Executive Office Building...
CHURCHILL HIMSELF was not much to look at or listen to in his early days. When the poet, Wilfred Scawen Blunt met Churchill at age 27, he described him as "a little square-headed fellow of no very striking appearance." He had a severe lisp until his thirties, and, like Demosthenes, his skill in oratory was partly a consequence of his will to overcome it. Indeed, the two most distinctive and forceful presences in British public life in this century, those of Churchill and Bernard Shaw, were both artifices wrought by sheer will power. The expression of bulldog defiance which...
...adopts a bit too much of an accent to be held accountable at all times for their words. In contrast, Ralph Martin contributes an arch bit as a homosexual art collector who multiplies the confusion--and, in these days of gay lib, his ability to get away with a lisp and a swish attests to a great degree of style. Kazarus reappears as an immigrant repairman and Melissa Mueller shows up again as Clea, a second girlfriend whose exact motivation--if you're even inclined to bother about such matters after her most striking entrance--could be slightly troublesome. This...