Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look upon him/her as a sex object." Although Superman over the years has generally remained impervious to Lois Lane's wiles, he has succumbed occasionally to other entanglements. In the 1950s there was a handsome brunet named Lori, "mysterious as the sea," whom Clark rescued from her runaway wheelchair. She puzzled him by issuing orders to an octopus that had wrapped its tentacles around her, but he fell in love with her anyway and proposed. "Although I love you," she replied, "I can never marry you." Because, as Superman soon learned, she was a mermaid (Lorelei?), and the reason...
...candidates have been quick to respond. Most have produced either a touching story of an aged parent or, in the case of Michael Dukakis, the real thing. Jesse Jackson, invoking Social Security's creator, tells voters that he "would rather have Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Ronald Reagan on a horse." Virtually all have come out in support of the long-term health- care bill now stalled in Congress, which, if it ever passed, would cost the Government tens of billions of dollars over the next five years. Only Republican Pete du Pont has proposed radically restructuring Social Security...
Across town, ten days later, Alma Lee Washington was sitting in her wheelchair in the doorway of her rundown two-bedroom house in South Central Los Angeles when hoodlums driving by opened fire with a .45-cal. handgun. Washington, 67, was killed by a bullet that struck her in the right eye. Yet her slaying got scant attention. Footage of the grieving family was not the top story on the evening news. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner buried her death in a small note. The Los Angeles Times, which had been splashing the Westwood shoot-out across...
...premature babies lay inside incubators and did not stop to collect a stuffed animal. But most other patients did. One small girl in a wheelchair peeked out over her oxygen mask, pointed her finger and said clearly, "the purple...
Physicist Stephen Hawking is confined to a wheelchair, a prisoner in his own body, but his creative mind freely roams the universe...