Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes, during sustained applause, an elevator inched Hawking, seated in a wheelchair, to the level of the stage...
Hawking communicates with the aid of a computer and speech synthesizer attached to his wheelchair, which requires that he select words one by one from a list on the computer. According to Hawking, this allows him to speak as fast as fifteen words a minute...
...years, I didn't. It made life a little bit complicated. Those were years when I was a medical student and resident doctor. Not driving meant that I had to live within wheelchair distance of the hospitals where I was training. And that meant going to sleep every night to the sweet sound of sirens pulling up to my friendly neighborhood emergency room...
...drive from the wheelchair...
...lines. They were doubtless too busy helping invent the film's visual effects, which most prominently include the gigantic mechanical tarantula with which Loveless hopes to induce a post-Civil War U.S. to surrender its sovereignty to him. But like men in frocks or the doctor's steam-driven wheelchair, it is just a sight gag--a one-shot deal out of which you cannot build intricately sustained comedy. The movie is loaded with this junk, but it has no authentic momentum or satirical viewpoint--and is finally lost to its own desperate, unavailing search for a laugh...