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...Novelist Norman Mailer. Not a cough sounded as Abbott, 37, gave some grisly details of the aftermath of the 5 a.m. stabbing outside the Bini-Bon restaurant where Adan had worked. Adan, Abbott related, "said, 'You didn't have to kill me.' He started going backward. From his face he looked like he was dead ... he kept walking backward on Fifth [Street]. I've never seen anyone dead walk that far." Then, said Abbott, Adan fell to the sidewalk and spilled "a river of blood...
...entitles credence, yet in the next hour nobody on the program even mentioned, let alone discussed his denial. Perhaps it was Gaddafi's appearance that was so scary, as he huddled, dressed in collarless brown shirt and engulfed in a blue cape. As his head bobbed upward and backward, his eyes rolling up to the heavens, he looked like a Monty Python imitation of an Arab weirdo...
...since 1948. Lazarus began with a kiddy furniture store in Washington, D.C., that he called National Baby Shop. He changed the name to Children's Super-mart in 1954, and reversed the three Rs on the sign and company stationery to attract attention. Says he: "We used the backward R because it made the name distinctive. Everybody remembered it." Customers used to come into the store regularly and tell the manager that letters on the sign out front were backward...
DIED. Daniel Lang, 68, author of eight critically acclaimed books concerned with social and scientific dilemmas; of leukemia; in New York City. Lang's best-known works were Casualties of War (1969), about the rape-killing of a young Vietnamese woman by American soldiers, and A Backward Look: Germans Remember (1978), on modern...
Duplicating the chronologically backward structure of the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 1934 play of the same title, Merrily begins with the commencement address to the Class of '80 at Lake Forest Academy. The school's most famous graduate, a hugely successful composer and film producer, Franklin Shepard (Jim Walton) prates of the need to compromise in order to get ahead. But when the musical ends, and Franklin is the valedictorian of 1955, he gives a ringing, idealistic peroration. In tracking back over the quarter-century, we watch this singularly unappealing hero being cruelly false...