Word: facially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most who do respond remain somewhat disabled, and about 80% are stuck with serious and humiliating side effects, including dulled emotions, a clumsy gait known as the "Thorazine shuffle," a compulsive foot-tapping restlessness and an irreversible syndrome called tardive dyskinesia, characterized by twitching and jerky movements of the facial muscles and tongue...
...worst, Pacino has let himself degenerate into the mere sum of his quirks -- short stature emphasized by a rolling, shambling gait, gargling intonations, facial tics, a veritable thesaurus of hand gestures. At his best, as he is in a daring pair of roles now on Broadway, he recaptures with easy artlessness the range and power of his debut. One night he is a lisping, languorous biblical potentate, concealing deadly willfullness within a Bette Davis-like camp distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino...
...almost totally paralyzed, speechless and wheelchair-bound, able to move only his facial muscles and two fingers on his left hand. He cannot dress or feed himself, and he needs round-the-clock nursing care. He can communicate only through a voice synthesizer, which he operates by laboriously tapping out words on the computer attached to his motorized chair. Yet at age 50, despite these crushing adversities, Stephen Hawking has become, in the words of science writers Michael White and John Gribbin, "perhaps the greatest physicist of our time." His 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, has sold...
...went so far as to argue that King was not even hit in the head, a claim that he supported with photographs taken of King soon after the beating that showed bruises on his body but not on his head. Though King suffered a broken leg and several broken facial bones, some jurors said later that they accepted the defense argument that he was not badly hurt...
Robert Duvall, hidden behind glasses and large tufts of facial hair as a cartoonishly villainous Joseph Pulitzer, looks understandably uncomfortable in the role. ("There's lot of money down there in those streets, "he tells his thugs." I want to know how I can get more of it--by tonight!") Only slightly better off is Bill Pullman, as the newspaper reporter who helps to champion the newsboys' strike against the Pulitzer and Hearst empires...