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PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, on his decision not to meet with Cindy Sheehan, who waited two weeks in a roadside vigil to speak with him about her son's death in Iraq, then left to take care of her mother after learning she had had a stroke...
Rosemary Harris,74, has always possessed the gift of making common sense seem a stroke of genius, a thing of beauty. Her equipoise will be tested as she inhabits a nation wracked by war in Ariel Dorfman's The Other Side (opening Dec. 6 at New York's Manhattan Theatre Club). It's one of three plays by the Chilean author (Death and the Maiden) to premiere this season. Purgatorio opens in Seattle in October, Picasso's Closet in Washington in June...
...Jill the Thrill”—but she does little to transcend the trite. In this film, acting deftness seems to increase with age. Rowlands as Violet Devereaux, the overbearing wife, is convincingly crazy and generally splendid. Hurt may not have many lines as the stroke-burdened husband, Ben Devereaux, but his haunting stare and stark showing of sickness are the scariest parts of the early minutes...
...centers, whose numbers have expanded following the Santa Monica watershed. Florida has been at the forefront, having established five prototype driver-assessment centers in different cities. Each center uses DriveABLE, a system for examining drivers who are cognitively impaired because of dementia or complications of such medical conditions as stroke or diabetes...
...knew that at some point her body would fail her as well as her mind. Still, the news of her stroke, coming so soon after my maternal grandmother’s health scare, left me feeling painfully aware of every one of the thousand miles that separated me from my family...