Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group, specializing in Beatle sounds, provides the music. They sing with an English accent--the same saucy intonation as the four gods they mimic. Their lead singer even talks like Paul. Funny thing--the accent; after three days of the Beatle convention, half the people have developed a pidgin Cockney...
...Zeppelin went aloft in 1968, the British rock has sold more albums than the Rolling Stones, played to bigger audiences than the Beatles in their heyday, and brought Atlantic Records $50 million in business. Much of that success is due to Zeppelin Manager Peter Grant, 39, a burly cockney blend of street smartness and business savvy...
Class Snobbery. In a sentimental attempt at brotherhood-of-beasts, Adams goes so far as to have his hlessil form an alliance with a black-headed gull and a field mouse. Alas, in an unfortunate lapse into rabbit class snobbery, the mouse drops its aitches like a cockney while the gull speaks with a bad Russian accent...
...never to return. In France Whistler began groping toward an impressionistic style that eventually matured in a series of nightscapes he called "Nocturnes." It was just such a painting that got Whistler into trouble with British Critic John Ruskin in 1875. "I have seen, and heard, much of the cockney impudence before now," Ruskin told a gallery director, "but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for slinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a celebrated libel trial, during which the painting (The Falling Rocket) was exhibited upside down, the 44-year...
...nowhere to live; they shove the colored people into the dirty stinking flats that they moved whites out of long ago. We can't get work. I've got a cockney accent so over the phone they say okay. But when I go for an interview, they say fill in this form, and that's the last I hear...