Word: accented
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment. It has lots of fighting, but with a posh accent; this may be the first culturally acceptable version of WrestleMania...
...descriptions have none of those elongated pronunciations he's prone to; he serves up none of the verbal jambalaya he's known for on the stump. His accent has no thickener the way it might if he were trying to give the Disney version of the tour. And he doesn't go the other way either, trotting out 10[cent]words like sylvan or making wide detours to talk about Teddy Roosevelt. His voice is easy. Meanwhile, the recount continues...
...question about pardoning Clinton, instead telling a story. "When Laura and I were at the Cardinal O'Connor funeral, and it came time for the handshakes of peace...I see this huge hand reaching across five bodies, and it's Clinton, and he roars, 'Peace, Governor!'" Bush's Clinton accent is thick like pudding. He, like the rest of America, loves to do the Clinton voice. His cell phone rings. He fishes into the cavity below the radio and finds it. After a minute or so he says, "That's great news. Terrific." The Supreme Court has just halted...
Fred Hood '01 is simply outstanding as Wilde. No accent slips endangered this Brit, and his stage presence, one of self-righteous arrogance, convincingly meets the delivery demands of Wilde's clever epigrams. Yet Hood is just as equally successful as a lovesick Wilde, willing to do anything for Lord Alfred Douglas, or Bosie (Shawn Snyder '03), whose father, the Marquis of Queensbury (Paul Monteleoni '01) begins the mess with his charges of "posing sodomite...
Though Queensbury's polemics are occasionally melodramatic, his voice rising in pitch too quickly to sustain the rest of the speech, he successfully develops the attention-starved, almost crazed qualities the part requires. Stephen Fritsch '03, whose Irish accent is nearly impeccable, overcomes the fact that he looks nothing at all like Shaw and becomes the endearing rotund, white-haired, and belligerent playwright...