Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lanky vice president and director of his father's steel, aluminum and auto empire, who, first stricken by multiple sclerosis in 1944, defied orders to rest ("This to me was like a sentence to a living death"), kept on working even after he was confined to a wheelchair; in Oakland, Calif...
...play, it is dramatically Elizabeth's story. An attractive, mercurial, at once cool and responsive woman, Elizabeth lost the use of her legs after the death of her father and then her sister, walks on crutches and awaits-or, as Freud suggests, looks forward to-a wheelchair. At first she is mockingly certain that he can find no cure where a shoal of specialists have failed. Then she warms to him until-sympathizing, badgering, cajoling, but endlessly probing her mind-he probes too far; for she, meanwhile-talking, laughing, sparring, flirting, recollecting-blurts out too much. She then backs...
...also shoved the cameraman around in a wheelchair and packed him into a post man's mail cart (with peepholes drilled in the sides) to follow the actors as they wandered the streets...
...baby jests around a papa joke, and that drive a rachitic bit of plot literally to the graveyard. David Wayne is a fervent hypochondriac who, listening in on his doctor's phone call about a doomed patient, concludes it is he who is doomed and makes wheelchair preparations for dying, death and burial. When this misunderstanding is cleared up, a new misunderstanding is quickly brewed: now Nancy Olson, Wayne's pretty wife, decides that all the wheelchair stuff was just a gimmick to cover up a love affair...
Skillfully selected and edited, the series' opener traced both Churchill and his country through the years that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand...