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...power in ancient Rome by allowing the audience to connect the themes of this 400-year-old play to issues facing our community and country today. Most significantly, Nauzyciel elevates Brutus’ servant Lucius from a small role to the focus of the production, transforming him into a deaf-mute boy who sees the play’s characters, already dead, reenacting their lives in his dreams. Lucius remains onstage for the entirety of the performance, sometimes watching passively and occasionally reacting vigorously to the acts committed before him. In his director’s notes, Nauzyciel states that...
...hard-drinking, philosophy-spouting professor. (And yes, he has an accent, so we know to take him extra seriously.) This is the first of Romero’s zombie films in which the protagonists are upstaged by their flesh-eating co-stars. Only one character, a dynamite-hurling, deaf Amish man, truly pops off the screen. His scene, although too brief, is one of the most memorable in the film. The structure of the movie also strangely lacks the sense of danger and immediacy that a zombie apocalypse usually warrants. It is essentially a road movie, and yet the destination?...
...Obama would never be so tone-deaf, but he is facing a similar ceiling, a similar inability to speak to the working people of the Democratic Party (at least, those who are not African American) or find an issue, a specific issue, that distinguishes him from his opponent. And his opponent, Hillary Clinton, has proved herself tough, specific and reliable - qualities that become increasingly important as the economy teeters and as worries about the future gather in the land...
...self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s like closing an account because of rumors that there will be a run on the bank.This is a shame, because third-party issues are important to America. The two major parties have become so accustomed to framing the debate that they are deaf to viewpoints different from their own. Worse, mainstream America has come to understand issues according to narrow terms set by Democrats and Republicans. Vital issues that began as third-party agendas, such as nominating conventions, anti-slavery, or most recently, global warming, sometimes slip into public discourse. But the process...
...course, if a candidate can actually speak the language, then there's no problem. Senator Chris Dodd is a fluent Spanish speaker from his years in the Peace Corps, and Senator Tom Harkin - who has a deaf brother - was able to address the Democratic National Convention in sign language. But it's a high bar, and more often than not, candidates can't clear...