Word: deafness
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...FRANK SINATRA'S valet. And they were very good years. But they're over, and now he's spilling his guts in a new book, Mr. S. The highlights? Sinatra's affair with then underage Natalie Wood; third wife Mia Farrow's annoying him by talking to her deaf cat Malcolm in sign language; J.F.K.'s snorting coke with Peter Lawford; and the Chairman's donning special underwear--"a cross between a panty girdle and a jock strap"--to restrain his massive, uh, endowment. Guess there's such a thing as being too Frank...
...Tony Blair has always portrayed his Conservative opponents as hopeless Little Englanders who not only oppose the euro but hanker to pull out of the E.U. altogether, deaf not only to British interests but also to the popular will. But now the Tories are starting to hit back with charges that it's Blair who is out of touch and undemocratic. Their weapon: the constitution now emerging from the European Convention. It's still being negotiated, but it's highly likely to boost Brussels' powers at the expense of member countries - a deeply unpopular proposition in the U.K. Unlike...
...members aren’t the only ones fed up with GESO’s tactics. Many of its own members removed themselves from the membership list, stating that the GESO leadership is deaf to feedback from the general membership. Is this the group Yale graduate students want to represent them? Clearly...
...world, cops, criminals and civilians alike are incompetent, brutal or both. There are no bullet ballets, no climactic face-offs in dove-filled churches or exploding fireworks factories. Even if To's comedic ear occasionally goes tone-deaf (I have a hard time laughing at a cop stomping a teenage triad to the brink of death, which To plays for slapstick), PTU is a refreshing subversion of an entire Hong Kong genre of films that seek easy heroism in rogue cops out for justice and sharply dressed gangsters who live by the code. In PTU there is no code...
...cello so he can lie forever in the arms of a young woman who only has music in her heart. The affair does not end happily. Indeed, few of Rhodes' tales have conventionally happy endings. For example, in one of Timoleon Vieta's romantic detours, we read of the deaf and diligent daughter Aurora, who falls hard for a local hoodlum, to the horror of her whole family. All, that is, except for the canny grandmother, who tells Aurora she is doomed to act out one of the oldest stories in the book; the one where the bad boy makes...