Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professionals like Briefer and Jellis spend the money and work out the details of the party, but the reunions' "profits" are made by alumni themselves, who volunteer to hold dinners, make phone calls and stroke egos to raise big bucks for the College...
...formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...
Then in late 1990, Les, at 79, suffered an "incident" that involved a small stroke. He returned to Clawson after 10 days in the hospital, but more and more often there would be tearful phone calls for aid: Les had dropped Sue and couldn't lift her again. She became incontinent and needed a catheter. Nurses had to be hired to bathe her, and still she developed cellulitis, which attacked her skin. Joanne would smell Sue before she saw her. "It's like Sue was trapped inside this rotting body," she remembers. "All I could think...
...Heather Has Two Mommies. An alliance of the Christian Coalition and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York then proceeded to help opponents of the curriculum win seats on local school boards. Finally, President Clinton found that he could not open the military to open gays with the stroke...
Neil Simon's adaptation of his Pulitzer prizewinning play is, as one might expect, entirely respectful of the original (his boldest creative stroke is working his own name into the movie's title). Director Coolidge, who did a fine job with another eccentric family in Rambling Rose, moves quite gracefully within the confines of a piece only minimally "opened up" for the screen. Ruehl has two poignant arias announcing her realization of what her mother has done to her. Dreyfuss spritzes high-spirited resentment, and Worth's steely old woman, determined not to show softness to anyone, is a powerful...