Word: deafness
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...only $100 to $150 a month, once had a street fight with his Soviet superior, one Stephan Choundenko, about the low wages. As he testified, Jack Soble was constantly interrupted by defense objections. "I can hear you," he cried to his brother's attorney. "I'm not deaf." He said he had "spent hundreds of sleepless nights when I examined myself and my brother's life, and why did we go this way in America?" And he answered his own question: "I was always in a state of fear of the Russians, as was my brother, even...
...could make deaf stockbrokers read my two pages on music, the alleged joke being that I knew nothing about it. The real joke was that I knew all about...
Sorrowfully, Jackie Gleason heaved himself upright and looked at Gene Kelly. The two are in Paris trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost...
...target is not war, but societal injustice. But since wicked serf-owning aristocrats are now hard to find, the message has little relevance, and what remains is a sometimes amusing, sometimes touching vignette of the Russia of Alexander I. The camera follows a huge, strong, good-natured but deaf and dumb peasant, played by Anatol Kochetkov, who is taken from his plow to serve at his mistress' city house. Her whims and the cowardice of the other servants then proceed to ruin his romances, first with a peasant girl, and then with Mumu...
...Miss Cudahy of Stowes Landing, there is an eccentric, selfish old woman who sees her deaf-mute daughter on the point of finding happiness and refuses to let it come about. But motives and actions are never simple in an Elliott story. Each of the three, girl, man and old lady, could resolve the business in a moment. What stops them from taking the decisive step is a flaw in character, the underlying subject of the story...