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...managing “lunacy” toward the end of the Middle Ages, creating asylums for those whose behavior was deemed abnormal. With little scientific understanding of mental illness, “lunatic” was a broadly defined label that too frequently included the deaf, the mute, and the intellectually slow. “Treatment” meant squalid living conditions and physical abuse. Beginning in the 18th century, some steps were taken to make treatment of the mentally ill more “humane,” but well into the 20th century these people were still...
...kids. The Moroccan boys who fired on the bus during a deadly game of sibling one-upmanship can’t justify their actions to their parents or the provincial police who hunt them. Iñárritu also introduces us to Chieko, the deaf-mute Japanese teenager whose absurdly tangential connection to the events in Morocco inexplicably serves as the movie’s narrative climax. Luckily, Iñárritu’s characters don’t have to talk much. Blanchett, as the wounded tourist, doesn’t get much dialogue to show...
...case you?re wondering, Jane is not the Hollywood actress who married and divorced Ronald Reagan and won an Oscar for playing a deaf-mute. That was Jane Wyman. Our Jane was married to the same man, businessman Edgar Ward, until his death in 2000, one day short of their 65th wedding anniversary. Her career spanned just about that length, from Broadway in the early '30s to a last TV movie role in 1996. The year before our first dinner, she had played Mr. Spock?s human mother in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; and she had a recurring...
...Morocco a little peasant boyaims a rifle, newly acquired by his father, at a tourist bus and grievously wounds a woman dozing by one of its windows. In Tokyo an adolescent girl, puzzled and angry over her mother's suicide (and a deaf-mute as well), bedevils her father and at the same time blatantly asserts her confused but flaming sexual needs. In San Diego a Mexican woman tends two Anglo children she deeply loves while their parents are on holiday, but when her own son needs her, she puts her charges in jeopardy. Unable to find someone...
...October—decidedly a month of neutrality in the collegiate rowing world, when distance is measured in miles and productivity is measured in months, not meters. Any talk of potential springtime achievements is quickly silenced by the impending winter, one that promises to mute all IRA speculation until the warmer days of early March begin to thaw the Charles. So it is that in October, the past often does the talking. But the Harvard varsity lightweights, left without IRA gold medals for three consecutive years, have found little solace in recollection.In Newell Boathouse, the current Crimson varsity lightweights with...