Word: wheelchairs
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...occupational therapist in a rehabilitation center and frequently work with quadriplegics. I have taught those who are paralyzed to feed themselves, dress, shave, put on makeup, write, type, paint, cook, and do push ups in a wheelchair (to prevent bedsores...
...organized with all the boldness, secrecy and speed of an Israeli commando raid-and it had the same kind of impact. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, still recovering from a three-week-old hip fracture, suddenly emerged from his hospital bed early last week to appear in a wheelchair in the Knesset. There he brusquely announced that his government would make into law what Israel has long accomplished in fact: the takeover of the strategic Golan Heights, 444 sq. mi. of rocky terrain captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Said Begin: "We are talking about...
...context Director Badham has created for him in the movie. Onstage the sculptor never moved from his bed, and his confinement powerfully reinforced the pathos of his condition. In an obvious attempt to make his movie move, Badham insists on getting Ken up and stirring in a wheelchair at every logical opportunity. But this continual scooting about in hospital corridors undercuts Ken's arguments for being allowed to die, for it illustrates how much he could participate in life with a little help from his friends. One can never entirely reject his arguments, but at the same time...
...virtually tongue-tied as to passion and skimpily plotted. Hepburn plays Margaret Mary Elderdice, a widow of about 70, who is fiercely independent of mind but whose body is weakening. In the course of the play, physical declivity takes her from a cane to a walker to a wheelchair. Her lifeline is no longer in the palm of her hand...
...waste disposal dump. SCTV President Guy Caballero, a sleazebag in a modified Panama and a white three-piece blend, appears frequently on-camera to bilk, berate or fawn before his audience. Un like one former President of the U.S., who did not like to be photo graphed in his wheelchair, President Caballero will not show up in public without his. He has no physical need for it, understand; he merely finds it useful for inviting viewer pity and respect and boosting the totals on one of his periodic - and thoroughly fraudulent - telethons...