Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could enter a different race altogether ... The favorite of conservative handicappers, who view him as a dream No. 2 entry on a '76 ticket. Others see such a ticket as potentially dangerous, certain to push some liberal Republicans onto a Democratic track ... Age a handicap...
...left the concert feeling completely invigorated. For that, I shall ask you to extend to him my congratulations and thanks. It appeared at the time that Yo-Yo Ma's performance was doubly impressive, first for this excellent solo and, second, because of his abilities in rising above the handicap of Mr. Neal Stulberg's horrid performance as conductor...
However, in those last years of the School of Paris, when French cultural chauvinism was quite as bloated as its American counterpart later became, Kupka labored under a distinct handicap: his obvious foreignness as an artist. His work looked, and in deed was, Northern rather than Mediterranean, full of theoretical obsessions, flights of mysticism, involuted decor, heavy symbolism and transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French...
...year, the distinction of being the first anchorwoman on TV (Barbara Walters is not, technically, an anchorwoman because she doesn't read the news), and the prospect of national fame finally persuaded her to take the job. She had never been on television before, but inexperience had proved no handicap at the Post. "It never occurred to me," she says now, "that I would be anything but terrific...
Robin Starling is living in a contradiction. As the disabled victim of technology he is society's greatest shame. But as the person who overcomes his handicap with the help of technology, he is society's pride. On one hand, he has the right to be among society's most bitter critics. But on the other, he must be among its most cheerful proponents, to be sure that he--the painful reminder of society's failing--is not locked away...