Word: deaf
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Desperately poor and also disabled (she is deaf and cannot speak), Jenny (Rudi Davies) is the only character in the film who is actually worthy of this exquisitely enigmatic art. For as she finally puts it in a note, it speaks to her, and despite her limitations, she can hear what it is saying. To complete the film's moral balance, she has a brother who is the only figure totally insensate to the value, financial or spiritual, of the sculpture. To him it's just something to try to fence for a few pounds sterling and toss...
...still earn only 65 cents for every dollar earned by men. Minorities by any other name, such as "people of color," will still bear a hugely disproportionate burden of poverty and discrimination. Disabilities are not just "different abilities" when there are not enough ramps for wheelchairs, signers for the deaf or special classes for the "specially" endowed. With all due respect for the new politesse, actions still speak louder than fashionable phrases...
...MACGUFFIN by Stanley Elkin (Simon & Schuster; 283 pages; $19.95). Bobbo Druff, 58, is a washed-up pol serving time as city commissioner of streets in a minor-league U.S. metropolis. His wife of 36 years is going deaf; his son Mikey, 30, still lives at home; and his health -- after a heart bypass, four instances of a collapsed lung and extensive circulatory problems in his legs -- is not robust. Understandably he concludes that the "world is getting away from me, I think...
Others suggest that perhaps Salvucci has poured so much time into the project that proposals for alternative methods of crossing the Charles River now fall on deaf ears...
...University was at first deaf toward the demands of the organization, with some faculty members questioning the "Societal worth" and the legitimacy of a concentration born out of political activism. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 brought the first positive response from the administration, with the formation of a nine-member Faculty committee, chaired by Henry Rosovsky, who was then only a member of the economics department...