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Unfortunately, the other comic stars of this production are inadvertantly so. Monica Ferrell as Mina and Chris Cocks as her fiance John are so excrutiatingly bad, they are wonderful. Granted, it would be hard to overcome the handicap of their particular roles, bland characters who speak tritely at best. Yet John's sullen sneer is so completely out of place, and Mina's cooing sweetness rings false. Ferrell. only comes to life when she sheds the veneer of pure innocent for that of vampire seductress...
Harold Baratz, like many offspring of immigrants from Eastern or Southern Europe, wanted desperately to be seen as American. For years he complained that his name was a handicap, often misspelled or mispronounced, a dead giveaway. His brother Samuel had rechristened himself Bill Barzell. That was too exotic for Dad, who did little but grumble about our foreign-sounding name until I started to get bylines on my high school paper. That did it. Not long after my bar mitzvah, he went to court and got a writ requiring the world to call us Barrett. In journalism, he assured...
...health conditions, referred to as a "handicap" in the complaint...
...absence of a multicultural or Black students center really cripples our efforts to improve the students' life in terms of diversity," Ali says. "It's definitely a handicap to our community...
...double handicap" of being a Black woman has not stopped Jones from producing a remarkable body of work. She is notable in that she has seen her own pieces become famous in her lifetime. She has works hanging in the permanent collections of--among other museums--the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MFA and even the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, where she once heard a museum guard say that the work of a Black artist would never hang there...