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...James L. Walker. An ineffective "ivory-snatcher" (Phil Clandon's doubtful euphemism for a dentist) but a practiced man of the world, Walker radiates dashing vigor. It is a pity that he allows his cultivated accent to slip for a moment, in the third act, into an abominable twang...
...resonant Texas twang, Bradshaw drawls out the conditions that cause anguish in thousands of people. "Isolation. Aloneness. Abandonment. Skin hunger." Each, he says, is a feeling of deprivation derived from our childhood that was never resolved and sets us up to become addicts -- just as he was. And though we are grownups, we are still walking around with that wounded little kid hiding inside, wailing its needs. But wait, he adds, there's hope. By focusing personal consciousness on the frightened inner child -- as infant, toddler and adolescent -- we can all begin the process of recovery. "The goal of this...
William Graham, 47, still speaks with a slight Southern twang, a remnant of his years in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he grew up and attended college. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1965 with a degree in history and literature...
...before the wrath of Master Arnolphe, Burrell had them perform more acrobatic stumbling than the Lowell JCR stage should have to endure. The most abominable aspect of their performances was the pseudodialect of the male servant, Alain (Bliss Dake). One could never be sure whether he derived his verbal twang from the deep South, southern California or the center of London. The accent quickly became so distracting that the servant follies never attained their potential hilarity...
...tone of these scenes is windily self-important, the intellectual content embarrassingly slight. Even worse is the inherent contradiction between deploring the folk mythification of assassins and sustaining that very process by having a singer-narrator twang knowing ditties about the killers...