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...letter, along with those of more than forty national medical organizations, stresses that this process can provide valuable new treatments to diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's Disease...
...knew how to speak with his body. Now the long, bounding stride of his early pontificate has been reduced to a slow and agonized shuffle in which he barely lifts his feet from the ground. He takes care to hide the shaking left hand that signals the onset of Parkinson's disease, but he cannot disguise the frozen features and slurred words that at times betray the illness. Rumors of cancer and of the Pope's imminent demise swirl about...
...Richard John Neuhaus, an American priest and author recently in Rome. "He's not hesitating to exhibit his physical frailties," says Neuhaus, "which I think is intended both as a pastoral help to people with similar frailties and also as a sharing in the suffering of Christ." If the Parkinson's gets worse, he adds, "people could get used to a Pope in a wheelchair...
...Aidan Parkinson's charismatic, spellbinding Johnny who walks away with the play. True, Johnny is given most of the better bits in the play--the zingy one-liners, the outrageous insults, the outlandish questions--but he serves them up with relish. He embarrasses his sisters, he mocks Tom to his face, he mistakes his father's ashes for cocaine, yet underneath he is surprisingly compassionate and level-headed. The family grudgingly, silently loves him best, and Parkinson's charm makes it easy to understand...
...Parkinson radiates a rare degree of stage presence--during one of Moya's frequent reveries about her late husband, he quite unintentionally steals the scene just by flopping into a snug position in his chair. The durable bond between the siblings owes much to his magnetism...