Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home alone in Ohio. The online group kept him alert while someone called 911. A few months later, Firman and some other members of the chat group paid a visit to Skyhook. After they saw his mobile home, they contacted Ohio social services, which helped make the dwelling more wheelchair accessible and updated his computer...
...spent more than $50,000 for personal use, including rent, utility bills, a computer, babysitters for her children and payments to friends and family. Authorities contend that only about $1,400 has gone to Girl X or her family. The girl, who is blind, cannot speak and uses a wheelchair, lives in a state-run residence; Medicaid covers most of the cost of her care. Reed, who denies any illegal conduct, told TIME that payments to the girl were limited so as not to jeopardize her eligibility for public aid. "I may not have done everything properly," she said...
...spent more than $50,000 for personal use, including rent, utility bills, a computer, babysitters for her children and payments to friends and family. Authorities contend that only about $1,400 has gone to Girl X or her family. The girl, who is blind, cannot speak and uses a wheelchair, lives in a state-run residence; Medicaid covers most of the cost of her care...
...reputation as a stick-to-it, intensely focused, all-round-good-guy of the American art world has been gathering strength for years; and since 1989, when he was paralyzed from the neck down by a catastrophic stroke and had to learn to paint all over again from a wheelchair, he has become something of a legend. None of this bears on the quality of his art, of course. But you can't help reflecting, as you look at his infinitely laborious portraits in which one vastly enlarged face after another is elaborated into a moonscape of pores, wrinkles, blackheads...
...same thing: "I want a table near a waiter"--and every day I'd say I'm not gonna laugh, but I did. He was called the King of the One-Liners, and he had a million of them. Recently he appeared at the Friars Club in a wheelchair, and he reeled off 40 one-liners before even saying hello. Everything was a non sequitur; there was no continuity, but there was a rhythm. He once said that after he did 20 jokes, he could just mumble and the audience would laugh, because it was his perfect rhythm that made...