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...would hurt. Not only would exercise help restore his strength, but Berde had found that it seemed also to help reprogram and quiet the misfiring nerves. Alex spent two months in the hospital. By March, six months after he first became ill, he had begun to walk with a cane. He recovered steadily, though he still needed physical therapy and took several years to regain his strength...
...cast itself is chock-full of dynamic players. Amblad and O'Toole, as Petruchio/the Lord-ette and Hortensio/the first Hunter-ette, respectively, show great versatility as actors in their shift from effeminate pranksters to clever, sophisticated noblemen. Jesse Hawkes's cane-waving, unexpectedly spry Gremio stands out as one of the show's best comic touches, as do the hilarious antics of Grumio (Doug Miller) and Biondello (Andrew Mandel '00, a Crimson editor). Even Tranio, played by Adam Green '99, though not as facially expressive as the rest of the cast, has good comic timing and blends in well with...
...fateful night in Florida last March. Yet his unlucky stumble on golfer Greg Norman's stairs has served at least one purpose. Let the record show that it has landed him in the upright, three-legged company of Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Ah, but does the cane make...
When Colmer, a Democrat, in 1972 announced his retirement from the House, Lott declared his candidacy--as a Republican--and eventually won his mentor's endorsement. Lott proved an energetic and persuasive campaigner. As he later explained to his son, "If a little old lady with a cane and a mustache asks you to kiss her, you better do it and enjoy it, or she's gonna know it." Lott lost 15 lbs. that he didn't have to lose. He sometimes lost his voice. But he won the election...
...Graham joked that her working title was A Better Life, to distinguish it from Bradlee's A Good Life). As Graham soldiered through a media blitz that would tax someone half her age with two original hips (she had one of hers replaced recently and was still using a cane at her New York City book party last Thursday), her oldest son, Washington Post publisher Donald Graham, fretted that "she would soon be booking herself onto the Home Shopping Network...