Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says University of Southern California Music Department Chairman Raymond Kendall, "to walk into a studio in the afternoon and find two 18-year-olds playing in a string quartet with Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz." At Southern Illinois University, where former Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera, by God, it's an opera. I almost cry when I see these corn-fed kids belting that opera like pros." U.C.L.A. writing students will never forget hearing Novelist Isherwood...
Argentina's long-suffering citizens are getting fed up with it all. Last week a riot erupted at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport when ground crews refused to unload baggage-including the wheelchair of a 14-year-old paraplegic boy. In another part of town, an enraged 65-year-old pension applicant whipped out a pistol and killed a go-slow clerk when she foisted still another form on him and suggested that he return in a few days; it was the fifth time he had been put off, and each refusal meant a 70-mile round trip from...
...bridle paths of Long Island's Piping Rock Club. His horse reared, threw him, fell on him, and smashed his legs so badly that bone protruded through the skin. For the rest of his life he was in pain. He lived much of the time in a wheelchair and on crutches...
Woman of Straw. "Take off that uniform and look like a woman. Rustle, crackle and swish!" bellows Ralph Richardson. Nothing could be easier for Gina Lollobrigida. As the nurse assigned to a crotchety British tycoon who spends his days in a wheelchair, Gina soon rustles the old gent into a marriage proposal. She gets the idea from his sexy nephew, Sean Connery-an actor who occasionally takes leave of his James Bond roles, only to find that crime pays equally well elsewhere. Just as one might expect, Sean and Gina plan to share the inheritance once Richardson kicks off. Just...
...attempts to seduce the mayor's daughter by performing a squalid striptease. Later, posing as a mentally defective prince, he gibbers like a traumatized gorilla and has to be spoon-fed. Then, pretending to be a crippled, self-pitying veteran, he exploits the comic possibilities of a wheelchair. Funny as a crutch. A few more stiffs like this one and Brando fan clubs will be flying their torn and faded T shirts at half-mast...