Word: nussbaumer
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...examples abound. When a doctor was brutally murdered by a half- deranged derelict at New York City's Bellevue Hospital last year, the press promptly pointed out that she was not just any doctor. She was "full of life" and blessed with a "brilliant mind." The nightmare of Hedda Nussbaum and her murdered Lisa was the saga of not just another battered wife but a once lovely, once successful, patiently suffering woman who had been possessed by a diabolical...
ANYWAY, I've now been at Harvard nearly four years, and I can't tell you how often this desire has gone through my head. There I'll be, sitting at lunch, minding my own business, discussing the Hedda Nussbaum mess or plans for next year or pass the salt, and suddenly some person will come join...
...Joel Steinberg case, decided two weeks ago, dwarfs them all. The Manhattan lawyer was accused of brutalizing his lover Hedda Nussbaum and was convicted of manslaughter in the death of their illegally adopted daughter Lisa. Here was every ingredient of the true-crime blockbuster: cocaine, an S-M relationship, a beautiful six-year-old and a battered woman, all set against the background of Greenwich Village. Most important, in a city afflicted with racial malaise, it starred what Tom Wolfe identified in The Bonfire of the Vanities as the Great White Defendant...
Winner of the race to print is Susan Brownmiller, whose novel Waverly Place (Grove; $18.95), published this week, was completed long before the verdict came in. In this fictive version of events leading to Lisa's death, Nussbaum (thinly masked as Judith Winograd) is programmed for catastrophe. Her childhood begins with abuse: "Whack. Where were you? Whack. Ma, I got lost. Whack. I told you . . . always to come straight home. Whack...
Joel Steinberg is convicted of manslaughter, but to some a shadow of complicity touches his companion Hedda Nussbaum -- and the child-welfare system itself...