Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lynn was a cheerful child from the beginning ("In my childhood I remember only things like sunny days"), though it wasn't always easy to see why. She developed acute anemia and was so weak that she went to the park in a wheelchair until she was six. She remembers Vanessa as "simply smashing," Corin as "incredibly brilliant," and her mother as "the mother of all the mothers...
Prostrate Continent. Despite disappointment, despite the continually worsening arthritis that cruelly contorted his gangling 6-ft. 4½-in. frame and made him dependent on metal crutches or a wheelchair, Christian Herter was not one for retirement. When he died at 71 of a pulmonary embolism in his Washington home, he was still striving for international agreement-this time to lower tariffs-as the President's Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. That effort, too, proved endlessly frustrating...
Last week, back in Panama, Arias was helped into a convertible and driven with his wife through the streets of Panama City, in a sort of triumphal return marked by clusters of waving people along the way. With Dame Margot proudly pushing his wheelchair, he entered the National Assembly as it reconvened for 1967 and claimed the seat he had won more than two years ago. Six times in the course of the session, all 41 members, friend and enemy alike, stood and applauded Tito Arias for a victory far more impressive than any that has ever been...
Swann is a bespectacled cricket on a piano bench. He and his piano both chirp. Flanders, confined to a wheelchair by polio, looks like a maharajah temporarily deprived of his turban, bearers and ceremonial umbrella. He possesses the slightly disdainful aplomb, though not the waspish irascibility of a black-bearded Monty Woolley. When the two sing together in revue style, their words dance-whether it be a mock blues about the unrequited love of a nearsighted armadillo for an abandoned tank or a toast to the second law of thermodynamics in a foaming Einstein of boozy intellectual suds that tweaks...
...Fortune Cookie. Director Billy Wilder has taken the very rash risk in this film of spiking his big gun. In Cookie he keeps Jack Lemmon, a funnyman-in-motion who lacks the instincts of a sit-down comedian, sitting in a wheelchair that makes him seem foolish but never funny. With Lemmon immobilized, only a miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such...