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...number of unemployed disabled has grown. Whereas in 1992, 33% of disabled American men were either employed or actively seeking employment, for example, only 30% were in 1993. The number of employed disabled women also fell slightly. Says David Gibson, president of the firm that conducted the analysis: "ADA is not an affirmative action plan for the disabled. It is a law that defines how employers must accommodate disabled people once they are hired. Unfortunately, it is possible that ADA is now discouraging companies from hiring the disabled...
...nicht, as the musical foundation of the opera to illustrate the eponymous victim's visual agnosia: unable to synthesize visual images, the man relied on Schumann's music to help him apprehend the world. In The Piano, Scottish folk tunes suffused the keyboard reveries that gave the mute heroine Ada her soaringly distinctive if wildly anachronistic voice: the result was a blend of rigorous Minimalism, frank Romanticism and the listener-friendly ecstasies of New Age music...
...bombardment? Mostly they are dazzled. "We used to only watch television a couple of hours a day," says Dawn Marcellus, 29, a housewife and mother of two. "Now the TV is never off unless we're out of the house." "We kind of jumped on it," says Ada Fancher, 47, whose husband owns a land-excavating service. "People have done everything up here to get good reception. They bought antennas, channel boosters, and you could still get only two channels. Now at least we know about current events...
...forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority of the colonists attempt to barricade against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms of the English motherland. Only Baines and Ada meet the challenges posed by their surroundings. There is a passion in their in their characters which rises up to meet the passion of the nature around them...
...these things would be useless if the film did not contain performances to match. Campion's direction is perhaps her greatest achievement in "The Piano." A nearly unrecognizable Holly Hunter is simply amazing as Ada. Despite the fact that she does not utter a word during the movie, Hunter manages to provide a full-bodied portrait of Ada, so that the audience knows what she is thinking and feeling without her having to articulate it. Ada marks Hunter's best work on screen thus far. Keeping up with Hunter is Anna Paquin as Ada's daughter Flora. Paquin brings...