Word: normans
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...machine that vacuums out the fat. The procedure can take 30 minutes to three hours, depending on how many problem areas are worked on. Removal of saddlebag thighs runs about $2,000; love handles, $1,500; saggy jowls, $1,300; and baggy knees, $1,200. Observes Dr. Jack D. Norman, a Miami plastic surgeon: "Twenty years ago, it was the nose job. In the 1970s, it was silicone implants. Now the rage is lipectomy...
...execution, Jane Francioni's family gathered at their trim lakeside home in Slidell, 30 miles northeast of the city, to console themselves and pray. "We are totally spent," sighed Jane's anguished mother Mary Catherine. "It was we who got the life sentence." Her son Norman expressed the grief of all who were connected to the two deaths: "We're victims, they're victims, everyone's a victim in this...
...merchandising that will divert attention from A Capote Reader, a generous collection of traditional fiction and imaginative journalism that invites renewed appreciation of one of the most gifted writers of his generation. "He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm," wrote Norman Mailer nearly 30 years ago. The early Southern stories have the delicate tinkle of glasses of iced tea; a touch sweet, perhaps, but clean and cool. "The Headless Hawk" (1946) is set in Manhattan and offers a sketch of the author as he may have seen himself: "He was not so handsome as he supposed...
...feds out to get Norman Mailer? The Pulitzer-prizewinning author (The Executioner's Song) charged last week that two friends convicted on drug- smuggling charges were given heavier sentences to pressure them into implicating him. Mailer was a character witness in the 1983 trial of Writer Richard Stratton and the 1984 trial of Literary Agent Bernard ("Buzz") Farbar, but denies having been an accomplice. "I made no Fifth Amendment claim then, and I didn't need to," he says. Mailer spoke up after nine prominent writers, including William Styron and Nora Ephron, published a letter in the New York Review...
...frustrating manhunt for the Green River Killer drags on in Seattle. -- Are the Feds out to get Author Norman Mailer...