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...sent home by Pediatrician David Haskin. Hours later, Kelly was rushed back to the hospital, too late. Clotting blood from an artery severed by a skull fracture had put too much pressure on his brain stem. He was permanently paralyzed from the neck down and was also left mute. His IQ of 140 was not seriously affected, and he now communicates by flicking his eyes-left for yes, right for no, up and down for "I don't know." But he will need round-the-clock attendants for the rest of his life. Told of the 13-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Legal Briefs | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

Sontag argued that the film could not be understood in terms of plot. To do so would necessitate strict identification of each scene as real or imaginary, destroying the coherence built up from the disjoint opening images. The film presents an actress whose mental condition has suddenly left her mute. She is accompanied by a young nurse to an empty house on the sea. There they somehow merge or change identities--most people got that far, but that's, not very far at all. The film is not a puzzle but a meditation, Sontag said, and that interpretation is Simon...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Bergman's Best | 1/26/1973 | See Source »

...this be understood to mean? More than likely. It is not an equation of levels of terror, tons of bombs at thousands of civilians killed on German and American battlefields: instead, it is a comparison of the attitudes of mind that kept Germans under Hitler and American under Nixon mute before the crimes of their governments...

Author: By David R. Ignatins, | Title: Life Under an Air War | 1/19/1973 | See Source »

...Speakership. Arbitrary and cantankerous, piercing gray eyes flickering from a ruddy, chin-whiskered face, he might expectably have been hated by his colleagues. He was not. At the end of his first term as Speaker, Republicans and Democrats alike joined to give him a loving cup as a "mute token of our affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Uncle Joe Cannon: Iron Duke of Congress | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...passer before he can get rid of the ball. Thus calls for a good short passer reading quickly and throwing into the flat which means that Crone may finally he relegated to the bench. Restic quarterback during the week but he has been saving You're going to see mute of Jimmy Stockel a little more emphatically this week...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Football Team Favored Over Pennsylvania Today | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

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