Word: deafness
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...sorrow and the pity of how people behaved during the German Occupation. But we are probably not yet ready for something that too often verges on the bouncy in dealing with an inescapably tragic era. There are good performances and affecting moments in this movie, but it is deaf to the basic tone of its historic moment...
...earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall. "I did my job; I'm surprised it caused such a stir," said Hillis after earning a standing ovation. How did she feel afterward? "I was blind, deaf and my feet hurt. I felt a great relief...
...temperament. By "storming the main gate of experience," Bate writes in a typically vigorous formulation, Johnson managed to resist his own failings and acquire mastery over "the dark, bewildered prison house of the isolated subjective self." His life was a series of afflictions: childhood illnesses that left him half deaf and half blind, recurrent episodes of near insanity, a career at Oxford that ended after a year because he could no longer afford the tuition, marriage to a woman 20 years his senior who died a bedridden alcoholic, years of inconceivably strenuous labor on his famous Dictionary...
Reflecting her feverishly Catholic upbringing, Theresa feels a strong humanist obligation that is met by her line of work, teaching deaf children in a New York elementary school. She singles out a black girl in the class named Amy to concentrate her care and affection on, a trying task that is compounded by the stand-offish attitude of Amy's hate-filled older brother. The scenes showing Theresa striving to win over Amy's trust number among the more poignant encounters in the film, giving the viewer a taste of Dunn's better side. But the effect is quickly...
...Russell should try fishing around for a solid script next time. Rudolf Nureyev is the subject for Russell's current experiment, and the results are no cause for pride. Admittedly, Nureyev took on a task more daunting then Daltrey's. While the rock star merely had to portray a deaf, dumb and blind parody of himself in a rock opera that his group had created. Nureyev was asked to bring to life one of the all-time classic leading men in cinema history, a giant of an era that the ballet virtuoso never knew. The role demands a certain presence...