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...translator and signer to the deaf for the Ukrainian state-run television station ut-1, included a reference to her parents as "deaf mute." Deaf people are just that: deaf. The erroneous and condescending term deaf mute went out in the 1950s. Please don't revive it. Robbin Battison Stockholm...
Counter had been at the Nobel Institute in Stockholm when images of Katrina’s devastation began appearing in Sweden’s newspapers...
...generation unused to her and the conventions that then bound Hollywood. Her gestures may seem extravagant to eyes tutored in naturalism, her characters too ready to renounce passion for the sake of propriety. Yet in her day she was a revolutionary. Born Greta Gustafsson to a poor Stockholm family on Sept. 18, 1905, she was only 19 when she arrived at MGM (her only American movie home). Yet with her long, thin face and magnetic gravitas, she was already eerily mature. From the beginning in movies she was the older woman, setting the rules of romance. She would initiate...
...have been praised more than Philip Roth and sold only slightly more records. These three discs are the perfect way to discover a band that swings wildly between exuberant lo-fi noisemaking (The Story of Jazz, Shaker) and some of the best adult love songs of the past decade (Stockholm Syndrome, Tears Are in Your Eyes). They're proof that maturity and fun are not mutually exclusive...
...these other societies. There were these large Mayan states that were basically in the Yucatan...Soon after that, [the explorers] went to Peru, and there was the Inca Empire, which stretched across a distance that if you put it on the map of Europe, would go from Stockholm to Cairo. It really was an enormous enterprise, possibly the world's biggest state at that time...