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...week, and the thought that his life might be hanging in the balance seemed to weigh heavily upon him. His words came out in such a stuttered staccato that one of the five presiding judges in the tiny courtroom grew impatient and interrupted him. "Were you born with the stammer?" the judge asked harshly. "No," Chmielewski replied. "It started after the Popieluszko case...
UItimately, the campaign turned not on ideas but on images. An unusually private politician, Turner seemed nervous and creaky-voiced when delivering speeches or working crowds. He would sometimes stammer or gesture wildly, then laugh nervously to cover his embarrassment. His oral flubs became legion. "It's a great country where a man can come up, whatever his religion, whatever his sex," he told one group. His manual gaffes caused Turner even more trouble: he was shown on television patting Party President lona Campagnolo and another female Liberal on their posteriors, afterward explaining weakly that he was a "tactile...
...represents O'Neill himself--is undoubtedly the play's most powerful performance. He despairs for his parents and brother, but his tenderness for them is plain. His occasional flares of morbid poetry, betraying his artistic sensitivity, grip and startle us. He delivers his lines naturally, with an occasional stammer or peevish whine. Hunching his shoulders, dragging his feet, he even looks like a weary consumptive. His multifaceted portrayal is believable and compelling throughout...
John was a scrawny smalltown boy troubled by asthma, psoriasis and a stammer, a trace of which persists to this day. He knew before his tenth birthday that he wanted to be a writer. He left his rural home for four years at Harvard, one at Oxford and two as a reporter for The New Yorker. Although he gave up his staff job, Updike and the magazine have remained best of friends. Fees paid for his fiction and other contributions over the years allowed Updike to keep on writing, freeing him from the need to look for teaching jobs...
...death of hope" four times, to be written on the blackboard of the moviegoer's mind. No Woody Allen comedy should mosey for arid stretches without a well-turned gag. And no director should insist that actresses like Farrow and Steenburgen affect the wild ringlets and neurotic stammer of previous Allen girleens...