Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, he seduces his Jewish constituency by clapping on a Tevye hat and fiddling on the roof of his mouth. Felled by a heartattack, or possibly a stroke, Davis ends the evening singing that potent crowd- pleaser, What Kind of Fool Am I?, the song that probably contributed as much to the initial success of Stop the World as The Impossible Dream did to Man of La Mancha. Fool, Gonna Build a Mountain and Once in a Lifetime are the consolation prizes of an extremely tedious evening. The audience seems almost to come into the theater humming them. T.E.Kalem
DIED. Harold Rosenberg, 72, author (Saul Steinberg, Barnett Newman) and art critic of The New Yorker; of a stroke, in Springs, N.Y. Rosenberg's essays on Pollock, de Kooning, Gorky, Motherwell and Rothko, whom he called action painters, helped legitimize the first New York school of abstract expressionism...
...second set, Wimbledon fans witnessed one of the oddest turning points in the history of Centre Court. Evert lofted a desperate return high over the net, and Navratilova leaped to kill it. But what ought to have been an easy smash wasn't: her high stroke completely missed the ball, which plopped softly behind her for Evert's point. Navratilova covered her face with her hand, utterly embarrassed by the humiliation of fanning in Centre Court. But rather than crumbling, as she had so often in the past, she roared back. As she put it after the match...
...serious illness is a prison from which there are only two exits: recovery or death. Arthur Kopit's new play Wings is a message smuggled out from that terrifying Gulag inhabited by a stroke victim. At the beginning of this excellent production now visiting Manhattan's Public Theater from the Yale Repertory Theater, an elderly woman sits reading in an easy chair, a clock ticking at her side. Suddenly the clock stops, the lamp goes out, and there are loud noises. Mrs. Stilson (Constance Cummings) has had a stroke...
...once a stunt pilot, realizes the truth: her wings have failed her. "As near as I can figure," she says, "I was in my brain and crashed." Slowly, like a child, she learns the words for ev eryday things and slowly recovers until, at the end, she suffers another stroke and escapes for good...