Word: accented
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...responses occasionally hindered by a thick Quebecois accent, Hengartner nonetheless proved an important spokesman for the Gore team - unfortunately for the vice president, the forthright Yale professor proved almost as valuable to the Bush effort. Under questioning by Gore attorney Stephen Zack, Hengartner, who qualified as an "expert" witness, painstakingly explicated a pile of placards bearing simplified bar graphs and carefully highlighted statistics, simultaneously charming the courtroom and making a solid case that the newly famous Votomatic voting machines (used in Palm Beach County) are more likely to fail or register incomplete voter choices than other voting methods...
...Yeah, Triumph is a Borscht Belt comic, but he talks like he's from eastern Europe. Very tangled web. When I was 10 years old, that's the voice I gave to dogs. I think because my grandparents talked in that accent...
...enter the world with wide-eyed wonder, they're both just a step behind what's going on - at first anyway. So I just imagine a dog talking "Oh, look at all of this! I can't believe it!" So every dog on this show has an eastern European accent. They are all the same accent, just different voices. Just like real dogs...
William Faulkner wrote 16 novels and innumerable short stories set in the deep South, a body of work which garnered him a Nobel Prize in 1950. Never at a loss for words (reportedly characterized by an occasionally indiscernible southern accent), the Mississippi-born writer offered profuse commentary on the social ways and means of southern culture. Indubitably among the most significant was his desire to make the invidious distinction that "some whiskeys just happen to be better than others...
...moves on, pitching him a story she wants to do for NBC News about Johnson's special assistant. "We want to follow Jack Valenti all over with whatever he does and take pictures," she says, trying to make it sound fun. With her faint Midwestern accent it sounds like she's delivering a line in a musical. "No," Johnson comes back quickly. "You'll have more jealousy here than I can deal with now." She tries again for several more minutes, but Johnson shoots her down...