Word: mutes
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...that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit is his resourceful mutt, who becomes a mute Watson to Wallace’s Sherlock Holmes whenever a mystery arises...
...Sallis) as a vague, cheerful bachelor, whose obsession for dreaming up elaborate contraptions almost equals his fondness for cheese. (Wallace's bookshelf, as seen in Were-Rabbit, contains such volumes as East of Edam, Brie Encounter and Fromage to Eternity.) Gromit, his master's fretful servant and savior, is mute. He conveys his always justified anxiety via minute twitches of the most eloquent movie eyebrows since Groucho's. At the climax of each film, Wallace's handyman hubris has put the duo in an awful dilemma that can be resolved only with a thrilling chase. Domesticity restored...
...Albright, who hugged her and said in Russian: "Natalya, I'm proud of you. You're a smart one." Dmitruk says that made her feel "warm and deeply moved," though she says she does not "feel like a hero at all." Dmitruk learned her signing skills from her deaf-mute parents, former industrial workers who are now retired. Though not deaf-mute herself, she sees it as her mission to provide deaf people with a vital link to the world. And despite President Yushchenko's dismissal of his government amid allegations of corruption, she still believes the orange revolution will...
...three years ago, helps to address Urton’s earlier frustrations with the lack of available sources on Inca culture. Before the decoding of khipu, there were only two sources of information about the Inca Empire, both of which were unsatisfactory, Urton said. Inca artifacts provided only a mute testimony and Spanish documents recorded Inca life as their conquerors...
...IDENTIFIED. ANDREAS GRASSL, 20, former volunteer worker with the disabled and the son of a German farmer, as the Piano Man, the mute, suit-clad pianist whose silence stumped health authorities and the British media for months after he was discovered wandering a beach in April; in Kent, England. Grassl spoke for the first time on Aug. 19, telling doctors he had lost his job in Paris and was attempting to commit suicide on the beach when police found him. Recent reports have suggested his piano skills were exaggerated and his muteness faked, but Grassl's lawyer maintains...