"Eeyore" noun attr.

[Joel S. Berson]

Fortunately I can go listen to the two current
movies ("Be With Me" and "Prairie Home Companion").

Joel

At 6/24/2006 09:32 AM, you wrote:
>Is that anything like a "Garrison Keillor" voice?
>
>   JL
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>"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>"Chan's story is moving nonetheless, and with her unseeing eyes and
>dark Eeyore voice, she's a presence you don't want to let go of."
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>Boston Globe, Movie Review, "A fragmented look at lives of longing"
>(review of "Be With Me"), June 23, 2006, D12/6.
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>Google hits for "eeyore voice" -"eeyore's voice" -"(voice)" -- are zero.
>
>Joel
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