Word: wilson
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Just ask Tony Wilson, a staff member for the Technical Aid Assistance for the Disabled in Chicago. Wilson, who has been using a wheelchair since an injury seven years ago, will attend Chicago's Malcolm X. College this fall and says he hopes to work in data processing in the future...
...Wilson says he recognizes the importance of this new technology for himself and the roughly 36 million people with disabilities in the U.S. He says he hopes the aid of the new technology will increase his marketability in the workplace...
Glass has always been an enthusiastic collaborator, working with Theater Artist Robert Wilson in Einstein on the Beach, fellow Composer Robert Moran in The Juniper Tree and Choreographer Twyla Tharp in In the Upper Room. But 1000 Airplanes may be his most daring ensemble effort yet, involving Chinese- American Playwright David Henry Hwang and Scenic Designer Jerome Sirlin. The trio has produced a science-fiction music drama that is part Freud, part Kafka and part Steven Spielberg...
...literature that communicates rather than confronts, that reaches for universality and yet portrays people individually. Enriching the American dramatic vocabulary with Latin techniques and traditions, these new playwrights also emulate their U.S. forebears: as in the heritage stretching from O'Neill and Tennessee Williams to Sam Shepard and August Wilson, the overwhelming concern is the family, and the perpetual battleground is the hearth. The nominal topic of debate may be a fighting cock rather than a football game, but the passions of these playwrights are genuine Americana...
...shows he will direct, produce or appear in. Coming to America is the first in a lucrative five-film deal with Paramount Pictures. Murphy also hopes to direct The Butterscotch Kid (a comedy starring Arsenio Hall) and co-star with James Earl Jones in a film version of August Wilson's drama Fences. Says Jerry Bruckheimer, who co-produced both Cop movies: "He's such a wanna-see guy -- you wanna see what he'll do next. If he was available, there'd be a wild melee of people trying to get to his trailer, their pockets full of money...