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...dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife and her increasing tendency to garble phone messages. For Eleanor Zimmerlein, an Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn't saw a straight line." And for Chicago Office Clerk Eleanor Marzillo...
...gradually lost all ability to care for himself, becoming incontinent, unruly and destructive. "It was like chasing a 6-ft.-tall toddler around," his wife recalls, "except you knew that a toddler would eventually learn the rules of the house." Today both Marzillo and Holmes are institutionalized. Says Eleanor Marzillo of her husband: "He cannot speak, he cannot eat, he cannot ask for water...
...memorial service was held on June 15 in Memorial Church after private funeral services. Lintner is survived by his second wife Eleanor, two children. John H. Lintner and Nancy Chase Molvig, and his stepson, Allan Hodges...
...England, Passion's title was Passion Play. The music of the Dies Irae boomingly punctuates some scenes, and the drama has a neoreligious subtext. James and Eleanor proclaim themselves atheists, but they are wistfully haunted by the death of God. While ranting about his right to "a flash of happiness before the void," James curses Christianity and Jesus Christ for depaganizing mankind: "The Christians took over the language of sexual emotion for their own purposes -passion, love, adoration, ecstasy . . . those words are now more meaningless than the so-called dirty words...
...more rehearsal time than the actors apparently got. Bob Gunton is a shade too stilted as James, hoping perhaps that physical constriction could simulate advanced middle age. Frank Langella moves with grand assurance across Broadway's Longacre stage, ranging from impish mischief to laceration of soul. As Eleanor and her alter ego, Damon and Kerr lend their roles compelling honesty, and Roxanne Hart is a five-alarm sexual conflagration...