Word: wheelchairs
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Although the language is often colorful, it symbolizes the working-class ethos that sustains the interweaving narratives of this dense story. Crowley deepens the glimpse of the working class by opening an eye to the often overlooked quirky and ridiculous things of daily routine. Any movie that involves a wheelchair race in a pub, female ronnies (Irish slang for moustaches), brown sauce in tea, golden oldies discos and rabbit racing is sure to be a good show and Intermission is no exception...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, Palestinian terrorist leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, during which American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer was shot and pushed overboard in his wheelchair; while in U.S. custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize...
...talking really quietly. He’s still a little weak and that was his first time being out, but he looked good and he’s walking. Ninety percent of the people who have his injury end up in a wheelchair, so he’s doing something right...
...fine. With nearly 50% of all auto fatalities alcohol related, previously lenient courts now appear ready to punish cavalier French attitudes toward drinking and driving. Ironically, both Angélique and Jean-Sébastien have themselves been victims of drunk drivers - Angélique is wheelchair-bound for life as a result...
...Larry Flynt interview: He’s a Hustler, Baby, Just Don’t Mind the Wheelchair...