Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson jumped out to about a 33 stroke-per-minute base and maintained its place in the stagger throughout...
After Fahd's 1995 stroke, the King designated Abdullah as regent, then quickly took back his authority. But while the ailing Fahd officially remains monarch and continues to chair Cabinet meetings when his spirits are up, Abdullah is now running the country's day-to-day affairs, and his succession is unchallenged...
...second act takes place in a wooded graveyard where, at the stroke of midnight, the wilis are called up from their graves by Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis. The hapless Hilarion is trapped by the wilis as he comes to mourn at Giselle's grave and is forced to dance to his death. A remorseful and grieving Albrecht sees Giselle's spirit in the graveyard and, after a sorrowful and loving pas de deux,he too becomes trapped by the wilis...
Morrison had attended the first read-through--what she calls "stroke-the-author time"--and visited the set, where she fell in love with the costume people and their meticulous work. "The fabrics they had!" she exclaims. "They had boots from Italy with the buttons up the side. And the underclothes with six inches of lace on the skirts, the likes of which you have not seen. How many people had been blinded making these things...
...bananas. A major study out last week finds that men whose diets are loaded with potassium-rich foods--including bananas, tomatoes and oranges--may be able to cut their risk of stroke by one-third. Resist the temptation to take potassium supplements though: they may be harmful, especially if you have kidney problems...