Word: wheelchairs
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...problem was that the crucial and defining fact that Roosevelt conducted his presidency from a wheelchair became a forgotten footnote to the White House proceedings and, indeed, to the whole memorial idea. In the warm glow of the White House it was easy to ignore the growing clamor at the gates about a memorial that is taking $42 million in tax money and has no depiction of Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair. (Or, for that matter, of Eleanor's fur stole, now considered too controversial...
...teach an acting class, the once fast-living co-star of the Superman movies inexplicably turned up in the backyard of a suburban L.A. home, bedraggled and hysterical. Police took her to a psychiatric hospital. For a time in the early '90s, the thrice-divorced Kidder had been wheelchair-bound after a car crash. Her career faded. Recently she's been holed up in Montana, writing her autobiography: Calamities. THE TRIAL OF GEORGE CLOONEY...
...written off Pippig when she fell behind Kenya's Tegla Loroupe," says Allis, "But right near Fenway Park, she came through with a breathtaking comeback and left Loroupe in her dust." On wheels, Switzerland's Heinz Frei was first to cross the finish line in the men's wheelchair division with a time of 1:30:14 and American Jean Driscoll won an unprecedented seventh consecutive race on the women's side. Joining the winners were 38,706 official entrants and thousands of unofficial "bandits" who slipped in along the route. Response to the celebration race overwhelmed organizers...
While XL projects continue to be Koolhaas' specialty, one of the commissions he's most excited about at the moment is another house in France, this one for a client who uses a wheelchair. An orgy of open-endedness, the house is designed around a huge hydraulic platform that interlocks with and completes the different floors as the client moves up and down the house. "And of course," says Koolhaas, salivating at the thought, "the movement changes the architecture." At last, the machine is a house for living...
...arguments set forth in court yesterday relate to Harvard's application last year to the Massachusetts Architectural Access Board for variances to permit Harvard to keep four doors in the Union that are not wheelchair accessible...