Word: deafness
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...song reaches its climax, González’s repetitive vocals grow increasingly urgent against the guitars’ violent strumming. “Don’t let the darkness eat you up,” he pleads, once, twice, eight times. But the pig-man, deaf to the music, can’t help but succumb to his rage. The final scene shows him angrily setting a vehicle on fire, then staring into the destruction. Some music videos are made purely to entertain, while others are made to instruct. By using the extended allegorical image...
...Michael Reagan. Yet in the 1950s, the unpretentious Jane Wyman was one of Hollywood's most respected stars. She broke out of B movies in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and went on to vibrant performances in such films as 1948's Johnny Belinda (her portrayal of a deaf and mute rape victim won her an Oscar) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright. She broke her long silence on Reagan after his death, calling him a "great President and ... gentle man." Wyman...
...unfortunate that Allston’s requests for a deep and meaningful partnership between Harvard and our community fall on deaf ears. But Bill Gates must have had something different in mind when he told the Harvard family, “When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given—in talent, privilege, and opportunity—there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from...
...Administration, who see him as a moderate alternative to Hamas, his crackdown on Gaza is unpopular within Abbas's own Fatah movement. A powerful faction within Fatah is urging Abbas to patch up with Hamas, which was freely elected as the Palestinian government in January 2006. "He is becoming deaf and blind," says one senior Fatah official. "He's cutting himself off from the Palestinians to get closer to the Israelis and the Americans...
...country's east, the new Prime Minister's talk of national unity fell on deaf ears. At Metanaro, hundreds of refugees erected huge Fretilin banners across the main highway, then blockaded it with rocks and logs. The road quickly became a no-go zone for the UN, with a policeman posted to stop UN vehicles from approaching after several were badly damaged by rocks. In Baucau seven buildings were torched and in Viqueque seven more were destroyed. At Quelecai, south-east of Baucau, fighting was continuing between pro-Fretilin youths and supporters of other political parties when TIME visited...