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Blind and deaf after a sudden illness at the age of 19 months, she later became, with the help of her childhood teacher and longtime companion Anne Sullivan, the first person with these handicaps to acquire normal living and language skills...
White sat out World War II in an Irish farmhouse, and later settled on Alderney in the Channel Islands. He learned how to sail, and he learned the deaf-blind language so that, year after year, he could entertain members of a deaf-blind society whom he invited to Alderney. In 1957 he revised The Once and Future King, softening a nasty lampoon of his nasty mother (Queen Morgause, the witch...
Spanish Director Luis Bufiuel is 68, deaf and an acknowledged alcoholic; he has claimed that this-his 27th picture-will be his last. True or not, Belle de Jour is a fitting capstone to the curious career of an unpopular but near-legendary film maker whose favorite themes have been anticlericalism, madness, fetishist fantasies and the wilder frontiers of sex. The Belle of this story is the masochistic wife of a successful young Parisian doctor who finds relief from her marital frigidity by working part-time in a whorehouse-not for conventional kicks but for the delicious indignities involved. Since...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Theater of the Deaf." Arthur Penn, Joe Layton and Gene Lasko direct handicapped actors in scenes from South Pacific, Hamlet and Kismet. Nanette Fabray narrates...
...doubt your picture of the execution of a Viet Cong officer by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan will bring much satisfaction to the hairy 2% of our populace who revile the atrocities, some real and some imagined, committed by the U.S. and its allies while turning a deaf ear to murder and assassination by the Viet Cong. I only hope that alongside of it in the history books is placed the picture of the South Vietnamese officer carrying the body of his child murdered by these same Viet Cong...