Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When this frail old man finally succumbed to the Parkinson's disease and lung ailments that had sparked rumors of his demise for years, most Chinese registered barely a sigh. Black-clad television announcers proclaimed his death just a few hours after it occurred, while traffic continued to thread through Tiananmen Square. The casual manner in which Beijing residents went about their daily routines offered eloquent proof that the Chinese have accepted their leader's mortality and long since discounted his loss. "We are at ease with the thought that things will be all right without Deng," said Beijing writer...
...supporting cast. But two other characters hover above When We Were Kings like the Ghosts of Kinshasa Future: the Foreman and Ali of today. One became a preacher and found a rich comic voice that has finally made him an endearing figure in sports. The other is afflicted with Parkinson's syndrome, his grace palsied, his old raffish rhetoric muted. The King is a physical pauper now, and at his sight we age and ache. His mind, however, is not so impaired, nor is his taste for raillery. Ali recently saw the film and phoned Gast to express his appreciation...
Hammond's death was related to Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, which he had carried since birth...
Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros is expected to resign any day now. The White House is also trying to get Attorney General Janet Reno to resign. Administration officials are planting leaks about her battle with Parkinson's disease to try to force her out. Not even Bob Dole was treated so harshly...
...spiritual longing, expressed with a great deal of hopefulness and uplift, gives Kinnell's poetry something of the affect of 19th-century religious verse, in which Heaven and angels are never far away. The difference is that Kinnell's paradises are earthbound, and sometimes found in odd places; in "Parkinson's Disease," for example, he describes a paralyzed old man, living in his daughter's care, as about "to pass from this paradise into the next." Here, being loved and cared for reveals paradise; elsewhere, it's found in sexual union. The book has three rather explicit poems, including...