Word: stutters
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...anything. For six months after my diagnosis of bipolar, I literally could not read, write or talk. When I would attempt to read the words would stumble off the page. I would try to write, my hands would shake violently. I'd try to talk, and I'd stutter. Before that? I was Mr. Happy Go Lucky, a kid who had everything. It was devastating to my family, to my friends. People just saw me fall apart right in front of them...
...reformer too overtly. "No gimmicks!" the Queen has told aides. "I am not an actress!" She wants the monarchy to be a focus for continuity and enduring patriotic values, which make instinctive sense to her. She was never a rebel: she venerated her father, a shy man with a stutter who was thrust into kingship by the abdication but mastered his task through hard work. During her wartime adolescence, the idea of obedience and doing one's duty for the greater good was the norm. She really meant it when she said at age 21 that "my whole life, whether...
...movie of my life," Cavalli reveals as he dumps several international cell phones, an iPod and a few loose Cohiba and Montecristo cigars out of a python tote. The designer's rags-to-riches tale is certainly fit for the big screen: a high school dropout with a serious stutter and an impoverished background makes millions of dollars...
Though Shell does not discuss intersections between art and economics in “Stutter,” which he has addressed in previous works, he does return to other pet subjects. One chapter is titled “Animals that Talk,” a topic he teaches in an English seminar...
...Stutter By Marc Shell Harvard University Press...