Word: deafness
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...dozen theater lovers--who happen to be deaf--had eagerly plunked down $10 each for a live reading of Lolita at 40 by film star JEREMY IRONS in New York City. It was to be delivered with the help of a sign-language interpreter. But the group walked out en masse before a word was spoken. As the New York Daily News reported, Irons insisted that the interpreter move to one side so as not to distract the 300 hearing audience members. Then he lost his cool. "Why would deaf people attend a reading?" he snapped. "It's like...
...branches of government to tip your hat to, plus the city administration, the various military services and their cemeteries and memorials, Presidents living and dead and the Vice President, who is said to be alive. Then there is a black college, a white college and a college for the deaf. And who would want to snub the Children's or the Holocaust museum? The carriers will cross the narrow bridges over the Potomac not once but three times in two days. On Thursday the group moves through the red-hot center of the city at 4:09 p.m., the start...
Miller, a public policy major with a 3.293 grade-point average, holds the deaf world record in the 100-meter butterfly and was Harvard's top point-earner at the Eastern Championships...
...other communist regimes, had embarrassed itself quite a number of times in China. For instance, when the Soviet Communist Party, in 1949, told the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to stop fighting and to negotiate with the Nationalists on how to divide China into two parts, the CCP turned a deaf ear and continued the civil war until it drove its rival totally out of the mainland. Therefore, in the Korean situation, due to the fact that it obviously involves the most unpredictable leadership of the contemporary age, it is really hard to say whether, in a severe crisis, North Korea...
...loud noises made by the Chinese war games have been superseded by the noise of the Taiwan election results. If the Chinese leadership didn't hear it, they must be totally deaf. TONY KETTLE Corner Brook, Newfoundland Via E-mail...