Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Canady, the scion of a multigeneration deaf family in California, signed so exquisitely that he served as a model for an ASL textbook. His eloquence meant ) less than nothing when he ended up in a San Diego hospital with an AIDS- related crisis. Not only did his attendants fail to provide an interpreter, they also tied his hands to a gurney. Trapped for hours in the classic nightmare of I-want-to-scream-but-some one-has-his-hand-over-my-mouth, Canady died shortly after friends found and released...
...runs counter to today's definition of feminism. And neither the acting nor the guiding philosophy behind this production manages to bring it up to date. The female characters of the play, daringly swearing off sex to force their warring husbands to declare a truce, nevertheless fail to present a strong revolutionary image...
Aside from certain small scenes, the production suffers from a distinct lack of coherence. The characters fail to communicate meaningfully or convincingly with one another. Whatever her sexual politics, Isablella Stewart Gardner probably would have wanted a clear interpretation of Aristophanes' classic...
West finds insight in places many traditionalscholars fail to look, students...
White extremists fail to rescue a vestige of apartheid...