Word: wheelchair
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...Jackson underwent rigorous health checks to prove his fitness ahead of the announcement, and AEG, the group that owns the O2 arena, has reportedly obtained insurance to protect against Jackson falling ill and canceling performances. Last year, photographers captured Jackson in a wheelchair wearing pajamas as his children pushed him. Nevertheless, AEG Live chief Randy Phillips says Jackson has a three-year plan worth $400 million with the company that could include concerts and the development of a 3-D movie based on the legendary "Thriller...
...Memorial Church--meant to celebrate the intersection of the arts, humanities, and human rights--featured Toni Morrison reading from her 2008 novel, A Mercy. But Princeton's Nobel Laureate didn't join in the dancing (more on that after the jump.) Morrison, who recently turned 78, read from her wheelchair...
...duplication in Munich of Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark gallery, lasts about 15 minutes and should keep all customers satisfied, as Salinger and the Consultant briefly team up to blast their way out. It makes fine use of Wright's spiraling strip, lacking only a climactic getaway via motorcycle, wheelchair or roller skates...
...that didn’t speak and wouldn’t talk in plain language.” An albino Social Service worker, literally invisible to the rest of society, appears to him in times of desperation. With a voice of many whispering sounds, bearing gifts such as a wheelchair and flowers, the albino serves the role of a not-so-subtle angel. Phillips’ conceit to render a mentally handicapped boy in a Christ-like light plumbs, anemically, into the same well as Faulkner’s Benjy. What separates Benjy from Termite is that Termite?...
Travelocity for the Disabled. Craig Grimes, who has traveled through Spain, Nicaragua and several other destinations in a wheelchair, has created a new website called Accessible Travel, an online info and booking site devoted to helping his fellow handicapped globe-trotters. Launching on Feb. 19, the site will include information on accessible hotels in San Francisco and eight European cities - including London, Paris and Prague - and will expand over the next few months to include New York City, Miami, Chicago, Boston, L.A., Scandinavia and New Zealand...