Word: deafness
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...Supreme Court decided yesterday to hear a case about whether the nation's public schools and colleges must hire interpreters to help deaf students in their classwork...
Edna Mae (Ellen Burstyn) is a faith healer without an orthodox faith. Though the deaf and the halt are cured at her touch, she is no manic Holy Roller, no snake-shaking spellbinder invoking God's immediate intervention for the sake of a fatter collection plate. She is a sensible Kansas widow, retrieved from a brush with death, who restores health "in the name of love." Love is all she wants to give to the two men in her life: her stern pa (Roberts Blossom), who responds to her proffered caress both as a seduction and a slap...
...decade or so ago, much of the public would have turned a deaf ear to these voices of science, eloquent as they are. The subject was unpopular, even in disrepute. Science, or more accurately its offshoot technology, was being blamed for much that was wrong with the world: the growing despoliation of the environment, the chemical devastation of the Vietnamese countryside, the spread of nuclear weaponry. Even the first flush of excitement about landing men on the moon quickly turned into boredom after repeated video exposure of the dusty, lifeless lunar surface. Many people pressed loudly and insistently for more...
...reason for such adulation is clear. Soon after Eirinaios arrived in Kisamos in 1957 to take charge of the diocese, the undeveloped, poor region began to hum with church projects: an internationally regarded religious and scientific convention center, a school for deaf-mutes, a school to preserve traditional handicrafts, technical schools with new dormitories so students from remote villages could attend, an experimental farm to raise improved crops and livestock. In 1966, when a ferryboat to Athens sank in a bad storm, drowning more than 200 people, Eirinaios denounced the neglect of safety on the aging boats. He also rallied...
...pack of Camel cigarettes. She promises to marry an Arab Sheik, provided he builds her a pyramid. The Woodpecker eventually gets out of the clink, meets her in the pyramid and reiterates the dilemma of transitory love. The sheik bombs the pyramid. The princess and the frog go deaf and, maybe, learn to make love stay. They live happily ever after...