Word: paraplegia
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...Dickens' best-documented accounts of disease occur in Bleak House, in which he describes the paraplegia of Grandfather Smallweed, who is "in a helpless condition as to his lower, and nearly so as to his upper limbs," and the senile dementia of his wife, who suffers from "such infantine graces as a total want of observation, memory, understanding and interest, and an eternal disposition to fall asleep over the fire and into...
...leaders how to follow a trail, how to build a fire, how to treat blisters, burns and snakebites. Most of them have learned to identify trees and to tell directions in the woods. Although many of the physically handicapped are confined to wheelchairs with cerebral palsy, polio, arthritis or paraplegia, they have proved remarkably adept at mastering certain basic normal skills, e.g., tying knots, which some of the boys can do only by using their teeth. The mentally retarded boys have learned the simpler stages of first aid, how to build a fire in the open, and hobbies such...
...places him in the first rank of screen directors. The film is full of fine performances, especially by Actors Sloane and Webb and Actress Wright. Broadway's Marlon Brando, in his first movie appearance, does a magnificent job. His halting, mumbled delivery, glowering silences and expert simulation of paraplegia do not suggest acting at all; they look chillingly like the real thing...
...Crossfire, Pinky, Home of the Brave) showed that grim truths and touchy subjects pay off, too. By last week the moviemakers had begun peddling a new cycle that some fans might find even grimmer and touchier. Already on the schedule were films about cancer (No Sad Songs for Me), paraplegia (The Men), poliomyelitis (The Young Lovers), smallpox (The Frightened City) and leprosy (Who Walk Alone...