Word: deafness
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...Gabriella, 32, profoundly deaf and several months pregnant, refuses to try to understand Carrie, a 28-year-old with dwarfism, telling her that her mouth is simply too small to lip-read. "People speak of the disabled community, but we're the most diverse community," says Kiruna Stamell, the Australian actress who plays Carrie. "Even with short-statured people, we come from different backgrounds, different cultures. The shared experience we have is social discrimination." (Read "Disabled Models: A U.K. Reality...
...many people on Wall Street are acting in an arrogant, clueless and tone-deaf way, huffily treating any criticism of their pay and practices and perks as an attack on the free-enterprise system. Wall Streeters like to say (and may even believe) that they're helping humanity - which occasionally happens, but only by accident - rather than being out to make the most money they...
...word bonus is a remnant from the days when Wall Street was made up of partnerships. Now that Wall Street's largely owned by public shareholders, it should have long since dropped bonus for contingent compensation or something similar. But hey, the Street, as I said, is tone-deaf.)(See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Turns out that New Directions is in an easy-sounding bracket for sectionals – the team only has to beat the Dayton School for the Deaf and Jane Adams Academy, a “halfway house for girls just getting out of juvie,” to make it to regionals. (This is the show’s second unkind potshot at deaf teens, although if this is the same fictional school that humiliated McKinley High’s football team, then maybe our heroes shouldn’t celebrate just yet.) Emma and Will decide to hold...
...it’s a message that is falling on deaf ears. As Ferguson recalls, while aboard a ferry with his family on holiday, he was cornered by the ill-placed attentions of an enthusiastic male fan. That groupie was part his disproportionately gay male fanbase in the UK who became enamored with him after seeing...