15.23, Media: Mercury News: Accents Add Heft or Yuks

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Subject: 15.23, Media: Mercury News: Accents Add Heft or Yuks

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Date:  Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:44:35 GMT
From:  nancyf at acm.org
Subject:  Accents add heft or yuks

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Date:  Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:44:35 GMT
From:  nancyf at acm.org
Subject:  Accents add heft or yuks


Accents add heft or yuks for movie stars, doing accents always has
been a kind of parlor trick, a feat of conjuration that can have about
as much to do with breathing life into a character as pulling a rabbit
out of a hat.  The full article will be available on the Web for a
limited time:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/7672793.htm


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