Word: deafness
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...volunteers helped to register thousands of new voters. They used special amplifier phones to reach the deaf, sent mailings in extra-large print to senior citizens and put up 8,000 yard signs with slogans that often changed weekly. It was a remarkably well-orchestrated effort. But Peña's biggest challenge begins as he takes control of the city's 14,000 workers and $630 million budget. Though Denver (pop. 490,000) has little debt and a sound bond rating, Peña cautioned: "We're on the verge of becoming great, or decaying...
...play games with students as long as it wishes. Students will continue to march, hold candles, yell, and do strange things to John Harvard's statue as long as there is a University, but unfeeling comments and stances that smack of snideness reveal that Harvard continues to turn a deaf ear. The frequent, unnecessary clashes keep the Crimson front page supplied, but the underlying difficulty remains: If, as administrators agree, the University-student relation should be one of mutual responsibility, it should not be unreasonable to ask Bok and his cronies to show respect for what students have...
...step in the right direction. It is a very modest move; they are still taking a very hard line." French President François Mitterrand reaffirmed his nation's determination to be excluded from the Geneva talks. Said he: "This Soviet demand is very old. I will remain deaf." The Paris daily Le Monde headlined the Andropov announcement with a question: CONCESSION OR PROPAGANDA? The paper's assessment: probably propaganda...
...again the case was referred for investigation. A third trial ensued, this time before the Supreme Court of the Russian Republic. The evidence that the boys were innocent was overwhelming. Among other things, the defense established that the old woman who claimed to have heard Marina cry out was deaf; she had also been at work, not listening at her window, on the day of the murder. Evidence was introduced that witnesses had been suborned. The judge visited the scene of the crime to satisfy himself that the boys could not have committed it. The verdict: not guilty...
...ground in a recognizable reality what could have been merely a well-shot and -edited compilation of irresistible music. But they are never so many that they interfere with the film's soaring flights of song. Say Amen, Somebody is a movie to which even a tone-deaf atheist will say amen. - By Richard Schickel