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

[Nancy Friedman]

The Cut offered some amusing speculation about Williamson's accent:
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/marianne-williamsons-strange-accent-at-democratic-debate.html

But the answer may lie in the fact that she (claims she) has a hearing
deficit that affects her speech.


ln Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 12:22 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> > 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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