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Small wonder that U.S.-China exchanges, as Lilley puts it, are a "dialogue of the deaf." Weakened initially by the end of cold-war pressure to cooperate against the former Soviet Union, the relationship is in its worst shape since the Tiananmen massacre...
...time to come back to something I feel a real kinship for." He adds, "There are only so many catastrophes you can do before they start to look the same." In case you can't guess, he wants to try acting. In Copland, he'll play a partly deaf cop who's caught in a moral dilemma. "It's a role that makes me nervous, and the fear makes me excited," says Stallone. No explosions in Copland, although guns will be fired. (You were expecting Swan Lake...
These words did not fall upon deaf ears, with students having classes in or near the yard complaining to Adams throughout the protest...
ACCORDING TO EMERGE, THE BLACK NEWS MONTHLY, MINISTER LOUIS Farrakhan recently boasted, "When I speak, blind people see, deaf people hear, dumb people speak, the sick get healed and mentally dead people come to life." Those are not the Nation of Islam leader's only miraculous powers. He also has a knack for making bloodthirsty tyrants feel all warm and cuddly inside, if the price is right...
Give Dreyfuss points for schlepping this load. Making effective use of his trademark dimple, braying giggle and comic exasperation with a world of slow learners, he takes teacher Glenn Holland through three decades of Americana, from Vietnam to 1995. Holland has a wife (Glenne Headly), a deaf son and, it turns out, a vocation for helping the young understand themselves through music. He becomes their drill sergeant, father confessor, patron saint. As the years pass, his students follow their stars while he, a frustrated composer, pours his ambition into them. It's the ambitious teacher's tragedy: your kids move...