cerebral-palsied

“Don’t throw away your Christmas cards,” he [Karl K. Van Meter] said. “We need bushels of them to pass on to treatment centers and private homes where cerebral-palsied children are learning to use recalcitrant muscles.[…]”

1950 December 30, “A Use for Yule Cards: They Can Help Some Cerebral Palsied Child Train Muscles”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

Director Mandoki, who was equally lucid about the sexuality of his cerebral-palsied heroine in “Gaby—a True Story,” stages this cataclysmic encounter with a touching coda the next morning: Nora, muzzily half-asleep on the sofa bed, certainly real and also exquisitely beautiful in cinematographer Lajos Koltai’s painterly lenses.

1990 October 19, Sheila Benson, “Movie Review: Prime Sarandon on ‘White Palace’ Menu”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2021

The ballyhooed sex scene comes in the 26-minute curtain-raiser, “Fiction,” in which ’70s coed Vi (Selma Blair) dumps her cerebral-palsied boyfriend Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick) and enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with their black, Pulitzer Prize-winning lit prof, Gary (Robert Wisdom).

2002 January 25, Lou Lumenick, “Not Much New Outside the Box”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2026