Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They charge not one thin dime for the most gloriously twisted show in New York City, which stars a muttering reputed Mafia don in a wheelchair, his loyal brother the Catholic priest and ex-jailbird, and a pack of rats who talk about whacking nicknamed brethren like it's some kind of citywide croquet tournament. But it's O.K. if you can't get into the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, which sold out when Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano came out of hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman...
MATTEL Washington is reluctant to put F.D.R. in a wheelchair, but the toymaker plunks a Barbie look-alike in one--and hot pink to boot...
High Sidey's commentary urging that the memorial statues of Franklin D. Roosevelt [AMERICAN SCENE, April 28] show him in a wheelchair made me want to scream. Are we building a memorial to a great President or to a distinguished polio victim? If I were famous enough to have a memorial statue, would the hearing impaired of America demand it show me with a hearing aid in each ear? We are fortunate that the protesters don't demand the memorial represent F.D.R. by an empty wheelchair. GEORGE ZINNEMANN Annapolis...
...enlightenment, though, is never easy--and most employers need some clear road markers along the way. Although the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 specifically prohibits any employer with 15 or more workers from discriminating against employees with mental or physical impairments, many managers have been quicker to install wheelchair ramps than to offer the kind of flexibility Wozny's boss did. That is why in March the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued guidelines to help employers navigate the fuzzy, sometimes unquantifiable arena of mental illness in the workplace. The guidelines, addressing recent case law, explain how employers should attempt...
...Roosevelt we mean Roosevelt today, i.e., a Roosevelt who had absorbed all the self-revelatory cultural conventions of our time, well then, of course he would bare everything. He would go on Oprah, indeed not just in a wheelchair but hand in hand with Lucy Mercer...