Word: wheelchairs
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...characters in the play are in wheelchairs. "One of the principle reasons I took the role was because I thought it would be a great acting challenge," said T.J. Mitchell '91, who plays the quadripleigic, electric wheelchair-bound male lead. "I have only three ways of expressing myself: vocally, facially and with movements of the wheelchair. I had to cut my hair because I couldn't brush it back from my face during the play...
...such money is going to be raised, wouldn't it be better spent on more financial aid or the creation of a University-sponsored study-abroad program, than on xerox machines or drug stores? How about making sure that all houses, and not just a select few, are wheelchair-accessible...
...David Young was left paralyzed when he ran his 1965 Chevy Impala into a tree and broke his neck. In the hospital he learned to drive an electric wheelchair and to type using a mouth stick. But he was 27 and a graduate student at the University of Colorado before he got his IBM PC. "It had become painfully obvious that I could no longer match my peers simply by being bright," he recalls. "The computer opened all sorts of doors for me." Now Young is earning a Ph.D. in biology, working as a laboratory consultant and writing more than...
Reza is now at home, lying on an adjustable hospital bed or sitting in the wheelchair his parents have bought him. He has had surgery three more times since April to separate bone pieces that closed the gap and joined prematurely. So far, his right shin is stretched by 5 in. and his left thigh by 3 in. His skin and muscles are drawn painfully taut. He survives on codeine, Demerol, other pain-killers and huge doses of mind control and courage. He has to undergo at least three more sets of operations -- on the upper arms, the right thigh...
...early exposition, he takes energized control of the subject (his script is based on Michael Stewart's novel) and gets a tough-minded turn from Beghe, his soap opera-handsome young star. Beghe must show all Allan's suicidal anxieties, homicidal anger and heroic resourcefulness while strapped in a wheelchair. His finger can hardly move, but his performance does, splendidly...