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...Halley, Jr. should learn how to slur. His excruciatingly enunciated diction gets very tiring play after play, and seems inappropriate for the low comic role of Costard. The same self-indulgence that drove Kilty to play Don Armado marks his performance...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Love's Labor Pains | 5/24/1985 | See Source »

...Silence, Norris comes across as an expressionless blank, conveying nothing but tenacity and absolute cool. His body is impeccable, but the voice is flat and high pitched. He has instructed writers to give him as few lines as possible, yet he rushes the elemental dialogue that remains. Words slur: "didn't" becomes "dint." If he is the first really bankable blond leading man since Robert Redford, he is also the most successful really terrible actor since Audie Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: And Now, a Wham-Bam Superstar: Chuck Norris | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...purchase slaves inexpensively during the early years of the British presence in the Americas. This Black-Arab association has plagued him in several instances, in his failure to praise the Israelis for the airlift of starving Black Ethiopian Jews form their barren homeland, in his now infamous "hymie" slur, and in his notorious alliance with Black Muslim leader and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, Jackson's economic and political ties have led him into strange difficulties...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Take the Moral High Road | 4/23/1985 | See Source »

...lead singer for REM. And, in fact, Oh-Ok and REM do have many common elements: guitar sounds, vague lyrics, and dream-like atmospheres. Fortunately, however. Oh-Ok does not try to match REM for lyrical ambiguity. Although Hopper and Stipe do create deceptive verbal tricks, they do not slur and clip their vocals to the extent that Michael Stipe does. REM presents the listener with an insoluable puzzle; with each new listening one continually hears new words and new meanings. Oh-Ok, however, repays closer listening with a better understanding. So, in "Such 'n' Such," what may at first...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times | 8/7/1984 | See Source »

...allergy to elementary distinctions is not confined to child educators and their admirers. It also turns up on the political front, even among presidential candidates. For example, when Louis Farrakhan publicly threatened the life of the Washington Post reporter who had disclosed Jesse Jackson's "Hymie" slur, Jackson characterized the episode as a "conflict" between "two very able professionals caught in a cycle that could be damaging to their careers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Moral Equivalent of... | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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