Word: hughed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slabs pointing out that he could not walk unaided after his 1921 polio attack. "Not sufficient," says Michael Deland, a board member of the National Organization on Disability, who is confined to a wheelchair. "F.D.R.'s disability was simply too central to his very being." Hugh Gallagher, author of F.D.R.'s Splendid Deception, a book detailing how Roosevelt veiled his disability (only two pictures of him in a wheelchair are among the 125,000 in the Roosevelt library), calls the plans "historically inaccurate." Alan Reich, president of the N.O.D., which claims to reflect the feelings of almost 50 million disabled...
...movie chronicles the experiences of 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) who, at the death of her mother, has come to live with her grandparents Hugh (Mick Lally) and Tess (Eileen Colgan). Between her grandparents and her cousins, Fiona is imbued with a heavy dosage of family myths. She is told about the disappearance of her brother, Jamie, when his cradle floated out to sea. She learns about her great-grandmother, a Selkie, who was half-human, half-seal. All this takes place on the lost family island, Roan Inish...
...Hugh's own son Owen (Rufus Sewell) is the soldiers translator, returning to Ballybeg after six years in Dublin. He says to the villagers, "My job is to interpret your quaint, archaic tongue into the King's English...
...this reverie, George falls in love with Maire, who returns his affection even though she is engaged to Hugh's older son, Manus (Rob Campbell). These complications propel the characters towards the play's ambiguous conclusion...
Dennehy is also unconvincing as Hugh, a brooding Lear figure who mourns the destruction of his community. Partly because of Friel's flimsy dialogue, Hugh's appeals lack the weight of his pivotal role in the play as the last stand against the encroaching English language...