Word: lipreader
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...political dinner given in honor of Judge Simon Mannix, a shrewd, large-minded man who has been "mentioned" for the Supreme Court. He is well sketched by the author, and one impudent touch is superb: Mannix has a deaf son, she relates, and thus has learned to lipread. To know what is being whispered at a testimonial dinner is to be an ironist, and Mannix is one. As he leaves the dinner to exchange ruefulnesses with an ancient Virginia jurist, the reader looks forward to a wry tour, perhaps in the Edwin O'Connor manner, of the world...
...that reruns are rerunning, perhaps the most useful show anywhere is one that graces New York's WABC-TV at 6:30 a.m. Saturday and Washington's WETA at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. It is Project Know's "Let's Lipread," and not only is it guaranteed not to awaken the rest of the family or the neighbors, but it is fine preparation for those moments when the Early Bird satellite broadcasts' audio breaks down or for determining what politicians caught by zoom lenses on convention floors are saying to one another...
...Queen to walk on my coat-I love the Queen!" Rarely did the royal nerves give way, but once, in New South Wales, the Queen and Prince Philip seemed to be squabbling as their closed car whisked through a town, and a group of deaf-mute bystanders swore they lipread Philip's retort to Elizabeth: "Come off it, sausage...
...hard of hearing to some degree, doctors estimate. At least 4,000,000 have a disability severe enough to call for medical attention. But 3,000,000 of these do not seek it, prefer to go on cocking their heads, cupping their hands behind their ears and trying to lipread. Even those who go to a doctor are not assured of the best help; across the U.S. there are few speech-and-hearing centers where a patient can be rigorously examined for correctable causes of deafness (e.g., emotional factors or unsuspected infection). Many doctors with limited testing devices in their...
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