Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performances by Albertson and Sheen are transferred from Broadway with every nuance intact. As the mother, Patricia Neal makes her first appearance in films since her paralytic stroke in 1965. It would be worth waiting a decade for. She retains her vast resources of energy and intelligence. Yet she has altered in appearance and style. Her face is still lovely, but it has assumed a melancholy dignity, no longer fresh, but not quite old, like a fine linen tablecloth preserved for special occasions. Her acting is neither shrewd underplaying nor is it larger than life; it is exactly life-sized...
...there are too many drawings of too many different styles, periods, and uses of the media to come together as a whole. One gets accustomed to the romantic, flourishing stroke of the Italian Renaissance only to be led on to the fleshy, finished modeling of a Prud'hon study for an oil, then to a gnarled rapid Daumier sketch, and from there to the modern works...
...Radcliffe Gym pool, where the kayakists were practicing, a girl named Jennifer was learning "to roll"--the technique by which a kayakist rights himself after tipping over. Jennifer, under the direction of a red-headed boy named Tom, tipped over at will, but had not yet mastered the difficult stroke for completing the roll. The clock above the pool showed 8 p.m., and Jennifer and Tom reluctantly pulled their kayak out of the water...
Even as the new Premier was sworn in, Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
...ruled longer than any other European political leader in this century. Early this month, after injuring his head in a fall from a deck chair, Salazar, 79, underwent surgery for removal of a blood clot on his brain. Last week he lay near death after a massive stroke that left him in a coma and partly paralyzed. After decades of his monolithic rule, the Portuguese seemed in paralysis as well...