Word: stutters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said, grinning wider than a Cheshire cat and clutching my car keys, my passport out. “I was hoping to do this story”—but blank looks stopped me. Six of them didn’t speak English, and just two could stutter translations and awkward inquiries. My name was April—A-pril. I’d try a chicken wing; no beer, thanks...
...responses of the potential donors that my boss has asked me to call and ask to help fund our public awareness campaign have varied from a confused stutter to hanging up, except for the occasional individual who expresses interest in the issue. I can understand the rude and hostile reactions of these people to someone asking for money. But I wonder if I actually got the chance to talk to these people about the need for a public-awareness campaign to alert Americans to modern-day slavery, they still would not support the need for such an initiative...
...know whether Professor Crouch did it as a trick, but he got me to talk. He had a conviction that if you like words, you should be able to say them out loud. Reading my poems out loud helped me to speak and to deal with my stutter...
Still, the stutter was just one thing I had to overcome on my way to becoming an actor. Another was that my family disapproved of the profession. When I started to discuss acting with my grandparents--my mother's folks, who raised me--they didn't want to hear about it. That's because my father had left our family to become a prizefighter in New York and later an actor. I was never part of his family really, and it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I had a relationship with him. He played...
...person, Solondz is stooped and balding with large-framed glasses that magnify his eyes to a bulgingly, distracting level. His slight nervous stutter, nebbish Jewishness, self-mocking, and ingratiating demeanor combine to resemble Woody Allen, an impression mostly confirmed throughout the conversation. Solondz is, in reality, the scion of a middle-class family. He grew up in suburban New Jersey and went to Yale and NYU film school. The only dissonance to the impression of a younger Woody is when an interviewer probes his work and its relationship to his personality; then, he starts resembling an older Woody with...