Word: deafness
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Most marriage counselors recommend that reunited couples take the same precautions they would with any new relationship: go slowly, and reacquaint yourselves little by little. That advice can fall on deaf ears for some who, feeling so nostalgic about the old connection and safe with the person who shared it, believe they've been there and done that 20 or 30 years ago. "Our hearts are open when we're young, and the person we knew then can make a big impression. It's understandable that people want to go back to that experience," explains Doug Moseley, the co-author...
...Amores Perros and 21 Grams. This time, the canvas is larger, stretching from California and Mexico to Morocco and Japan. The weaving of the three story strands is dextrous; the performances, especially by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a very harried married couple and Rinko Kikuchi as a deaf-mute Tokyo teen, are fierce and acute. Then coincidence keeps piling on improbability, and the viewer's interest sours into exasperation. Yes, bad things can happen to decent people. But compared to the calamities that befall the Pitt character in a single day - the shooting of his wife, the disappearance...
...finally come to Chieko (Rinko Kikuchi), the deaf-mute teenager who is deeply, if photogenically, neurotic...
...homes, and the Boston Sports Club.Because he teaches between 20 and 25 classes a week, Pacelli estimates he’s taught more than 1,000 students over the course of his career.Some of his more unconventional students have included Josie, a 101-year old woman who is legally deaf and blind, a 71-year-old marathon runner, and numerous pregnant women, Pacelli says.Psychology Lecturer Tal D. Ben-Shahar ’96 agrees that yoga can have substantial mental and physical benefits.“Yoga is associated with induced calm...and a more positive disposition and higher self...
...have turned a deaf ear to the ideas [Haddock] campaigned for,” Kwong wrote, noting that the support of the campus for Haddock’s “Fix the UC” platform should have carried more weight with the council...