Word: wheelchairs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...process of her rehabilitation which makes up most of this movie, eventually allowed her very limited movement and mobility in a wheelchair. Although Kinmont was retained as a technical adviser for this film, Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus, Ash Wednesday) has directed it with great doses of moral uplift and sentiment. The Other Side of the Mountain is photographed in the blindingly bright colors of a souvenir postcard, but is even less useful. It is too heavy for mailing and far too light to take seriously...
...noticed a swelling and felt a slight rise in temperature. After taking X rays, Hutchinson theorized that his patient broke the shinbone while riding his electric exercise bicycle or during one of his therapy sessions on the parallel bars. At any rate, Wallace now faces not only his normal wheelchair confinement, but also six weeks in a cast. No one, presumably, will be allowed to autograph...
...pending case on the death penalty, for example, Douglas made a special effort to attend the oral arguments in his wheelchair, but he missed conferences at which the case was discussed. In 1972 he had been part of the 5-to-4 majority that had declared the differing and "arbitrary" applications of capital punishment to be unconstitutional; the current case was to test a new scheme for mandatory imposition of the death sentence. Last week the Justices decided to postpone any decision and hold the case over for reargument next fall. As usual, no reason was given. But sources state...
...have serious kidney disease. The vitamin D compound has already had dramatic effect on Canadian Arthur Olson, 24, whose bones had deteriorated so badly that they could no longer support his body. Within a month of being treated with the compound, he was able to give up his wheelchair. After four months, he abandoned his crutches...
...gruff-voiced English musical comedian best known for his long partnership with Schoolmate Donald Swann in their wacky At the Drop of a Hat revues; of an apparent heart attack; while vacationing in North Wales. Crippled by polio during World War II, the bulky, bearded Flanders performed from a wheelchair, while the spindly, cricketlike Swann hunched over his piano diffidently, squeaking multilingual ballads. Their routines were a confection of bluff nonsense ("If God had meant us to fly, he'd never have given us the railway"). Flanders and Swann entertained cabaret and theater audiences in Britain and elsewhere...