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Oates' sharpest focus is on Daughter Enid, 15, a model student, talented pianist and promising gymnast. On page one, the girl locks herself in the bathroom and swallows 47 aspirins. The reason is a recent sexual encounter with an uncle. Felix Stevick is an ex-prizefighter, a local hero with enough low animal cunning to trade in real estate and keep a dirty secret. Incest later turns into a full-blown affair, documented in harsh and steamy detail...
...Louganis, 27, a dancer debuting in Indianapolis in October. Forgetting their parts in the epic beach movie Dirty Laundry, both aspire to be actors. "When the bus pulled up to the village the other day," Louganis said, "and I heard someone mention, 'Five to a room, ten to a bathroom,' I thought: 'Why am I still doing this?' " But the answer came to him even before he became the first three-time Pan Am champion of the three-meter springboard. "I still have goals, tremendous goals." At the diving nationals in April, Louganis tasted second place for the first time...
Some of the Bakkers' excesses have been well documented. Among them: six luxurious homes, complete with gold-plated bathroom fixtures and, famously, Tammy's air-conditioned doghouse. But behind those well-publicized items, a broader pattern of plundering PTL's treasury has emerged. According to the Falwell loyalists who are currently in charge at PTL, in the Bakkers' last 16 months in power, more than $2.4 million was paid out of a single confidential executive checking account handled by the Charlotte office of Laventhol & Horwath, PTL's auditors. Almost $1.4 million in compensation went to the Bakkers and top executives...
Instead of putting up with a bathroom somewhere down the hall and paint peeling off your bedroom wall, how about letting Boston University put you up in a room in the Hyatt, plus maid service...
...energies to the extra stress at the end of the school year. Then he developed more severe symptoms, including blinding headaches and painful sensitivity to light. He found it increasingly difficult to stay awake. Says Kennedy: "It was all I could do to get up to go to the bathroom." He was not alone. In the nearby Lake Tahoe area, about 150 others reported similar complaints. Two years later Kennedy has yet to return to work. Says he: "If you push yourself...