Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three hours actors and patients work at making a whole out of their disparate scenes. What emerges is a riveting pastiche in which children are beaten by drunken parents, humiliated by everyone, and, above all, forced to exist in a world of aching loneliness: a child in a wheelchair dreams of riding a bike, another child makes an imaginary phone call to a schoolmate who has rejected him. In the final scene a child is confronted by his tormentors; instead of slinking away, he turns to the audience and utters a defiant...
...whir of wheelchair motors and chants of "We want access" filled the air last week, as some 200 disabled demonstrators from across the U.S. picketed the annual convention of the American Public Transit Association in San Francisco. The protesters blame association members for engineering the repeal of a 1979 federal mandate that required wheelchair lifts on all new buses and rail systems as well as the phased modification of existing systems...
...Special Olympians. (The overall world record is 7 min. 32.01 sec.) He bounces around delightedly, and comes to prideful attention when his picture is taken. Another kind of athletic accomplishment is that of George Kelsey of New Jersey, who cannot push with his arms and so maneuvers his wheelchair by reversing it and shoving it along backward, with his left toe, through the 30-meter slalom course. His face is twisted with effort, but he too is laughing with joy as he finishes...
Some people said "no thanks, I already have one." Others wouldn't even stop when we accosted them on the street, even though we had no intention of asking them to donate to wheelchair basketball or the Endowment For John N. Rosenthal...
...other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs in a remarkable experiment conducted at La Raza Medical Center in Mexico City and reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. The results: one man, previously confined to a wheelchair, can now play soccer with his son and hopes to return to work; the other is no longer incapacitated by incessant trembling and can speak clearly for the first time in years...