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...catch the rest of the mob, and Jimmy can go back to daddying. The trouble is that while Jimmy is away, that old gang of his is taken over by Little Junior, played by the peerlessly creepy Nicolas Cage. Even though he doesn't get to push a wheelchair-bound woman down a flight of stairs, as giggly Richard Widmark did memorably in the original, hypnotic psychopathy is never in short supply when Cage is aslither...
...institutional shareholders that hold sizable chunks of Grace stock became worried that his departure would mean that the company's 22-member board would balk at reforming itself. Among other things, investors wanted a smaller board with fewer members over the age of 70. Grace arrived in a wheelchair last week to address his last board meeting as chairman. Weakened by radiation treatments, he was unable to read aloud the full text in which he condemned "the scheme" used to oust him from power. But when the meeting was over, Grace and eight other company directors, most of them over...
...over the memorial's depiction of F.D.R.'s disability [Monuments, March 6] was inaccurate and unbalanced, and although you characterized my position on the monument, Time made no attempt to interview me. While it is true that none of the sculptures relating directly to F.D.R. depict him in his wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R. realized that a physical disability was often misperceived as a sign of weakness. Thus he recognized the need to veil his own disability...
This time disabled Americans are incensed by the fact that the three F.D.R. sculptures have no sign of a wheelchair, leg braces, cane or crutches, all part of F.D.R.'s support system. There is, however, a sentence on one of the slabs pointing out that he could not walk unaided after his 1921 polio attack. "Not sufficient," says Michael Deland, a board member of the National Organization on Disability, who is confined to a wheelchair. "F.D.R.'s disability was simply too central to his very being." Hugh Gallagher, author of F.D.R.'s Splendid Deception, a book detailing how Roosevelt veiled...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole, disabled from war wounds to his right shoulder and arm, has protested. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II) says putting F.D.R. in a wheelchair "would be one of the most powerful parts of the memorial...