Word: deafness
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...well as the jerky forward thrust of Abbie Hoffman. All of it was admissible on the principle that it represented a heartfelt rejection of the mainstream. The mainstream was understood to be all-powerful and wrong about everything: politics, art, religion, sex, drugs and music. It was deaf to the beat, blind to the truth and dressed by Penney...
Even if Dana is able to hold Ted at bay, the damage he has inflicted on her both physically and psychologically will never go away. Doctors have told her that her hearing will never be restored and that she is likely to become totally deaf within the decade. She is now brushing up the sign-language skills she learned years ago while working with deaf youngsters. At the moment, she is making do with a single set of hearing aids. Ted stole her other pair...
Still, in that world without sex, drugsor alcohol, there was fun to be had, whetherorganized (as at Choral or rehearsals for "DonaRosita") or disorganized (as in late night debateson questions like "Would you rather bereincarnated as a blind, deaf, quadriplegic dwarfor as a fully functioning clam...
...mini-series mutates into a more tepid apocalyptic soap opera. The narrative coalesces around a few disparate survivors (who have an unexplained immunity to the flu), among them an easygoing Texan (Gary Sinise), a pregnant young woman from Maine (Molly Ringwald), a rock singer (Adam Storke) and an angelic deaf-mute (Rob Lowe). The few people left are mystically drawn into two camps: one led by a messiah- like black woman (Ruby Dee), the other by a satanic "dark man" (a leonine Jamey Sheridan...
...issue is not just poor AIDS education for the deaf but also the failure of the U.S. to educate deaf people in general. Since American Sign Language is the most accessible method of communication for the deaf, it is their "native" language. We must adopt the bilingual education model and teach the deaf in their own language, help them master it and use it as a comparative model for their second language, English. If this were accomplished, maybe the deaf would not only understand the facts about AIDS but would also be educated in all the subjects necessary for survival...