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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...
...President, the press secretary reports blandly, has suffered "a slight circulatory problem of the head." That's spin doctor -- better yet, parody spin doctor -- for a stroke that has left the Commander in Chief an aspiring kumquat...
...Switching our stroke has made a bit of a difference," Senftleben said. "We've been able to get our stroke rating up and the sway in the boat was a lot better...