Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...beside the scorched earth where the church once stood, 18 of the coffins were pasted with strips of white tape on which was written UN ELD - for Unknown, Eldoret - and a number to distinguish them from each other. Trinkets, scraps of clothes and, in one case, a wheelchair had identified the other 20 victims...
...this woman - 93, 97, I don't know how old she is, but she's over 90 - and she is just as engaged substantively in the work of changing the lives of people as she was when she worked in the civil rights movement. She is in her wheelchair, scooted up to the table, coherently, clearly, concisely articulating the values of today in the same way she did 40, 50 years ago. I hope that I'm that cogent at her age and able to travel around the country and around the city sitting and chairing board meetings and being...
...break in the meeting, retired doctor Fernando Castro said he feared that without Uribe, the guerrillas would return to terrorize the countryside. Eighteen years ago, Castro was injured when rebels tried to kidnap him at his farm near Pereira. The attack left him partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair. "What happened to me happened to many Colombians," Castro said. "But Uribe has taken on the narcos and the bandits, and we've been able to return to our land. If you ask me who I'm voting for, I will tell you: Uribe, of course...
...Fest opened with the three-chord garage rock of Thick Shakes, which quickly gave way to the long, intricate, feedback-heavy compositions of Life Partners. Exusamwa combined manic punk with a performance art aesthetic—Sawyer spent the entire set in a wheelchair, her face bandaged and her voice howling, while her bandmates all wore red-stained OR scrubs—and Quits played experimental noise music. Daniel Striped Tiger played a cleaner, jazz-infused brand of post-hardcore, while L’Antietam’s heavier, more distorted songs featured complex tempo changes and polyrhythms. The audience...
...Every day. But you know what? What was the choice? To end up where doctors thought I would be three years ago - a wheelchair? Not happening...