[Ads-l] Vox Article: Why Marianne Williamson=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=99s_?=most famous passage keeps getting cited as a Nelson Mandela quote

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jul 31, 2019, at 2:48 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:30 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I notice that Vox describes Williamson's accent as "Katherine
>> Hepburn-esque."
>> 
>> Surely not. They must mean her cheekbones.
>> 
> 
> A lot of commentators on the first debate (on MSNBC) thought Williamson's
> accent sounded "mid-Atlantic," so Hepburn is the easiest reference point.
> Oddly, she didn't sound so mid-Atlantic in the second debate (on CNN).
> 

The New Yorker today:

"Speaking in the throaty tones of a nineteen-forties film-noir heroine and wearing a well-cut, sea-foam-green suit and an Armani shirt, Williamson...”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/at-the-democratic-debate-marianne-williamson-battles-the-dark-psychic-force

I don’t think of Hepburn as being particular film-noiresque.  Lana Turner? Barbara Stanwyck?
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