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When the nurse removed the bandages from her stomach, Virginia O'Hare, 42, could scarcely believe her eyes. "The stitches weren't even closed. Blood was oozing, and I saw this hole on the left side of my stomach." As she told a Manhattan court, her belly button had been displaced half an inch to the left, and a thick scar wound across her abdomen from thigh to thigh. Her doctor's promise to give her "a nice flat, sexy belly" with a routine operation called a lipectomy, or tummy tuck, had turned into a nightmare...
Literally coming apart at the seams, as her lawyer put it, O'Hare brought a $1.5 million suit against her surgeon, Howard Bellin. On the stand, O'Hare testified that the 1974 operation had reduced her from a self-confident, aggressive owner of her own employment agency, earning $45,000 a year, to a selfconscious, emotional cripple, barely able to make $18,000. (She has since had corrective surgery by another doctor.) Bellin, whose flamboyant personal style (a contessa wife, visits to Manhattan's Studio 54 disco, a personal p.r. man) irritates some of his colleagues, admitted...
...Angeles about 11 years ago, the Aquarius theatre's exterior wall faced the parking lot muraled in a spiralling Beardsley-style medley of psychedelic colors and stereotyped figures on their way to Woodstock. That was when we were in the midst of Vietnam, Chicago 7, Timothy Leary and Hare Krishna. The play poked fun at everyone, including its own heroes to some degree, but some earnest zeal and anger permeated, betraying a sympathy with the movement. Fortunately, the movie is handled with humor and a light easygoing attitude which circumvents the cringing prospect of being subjected to cliched pseudo-ideologies...
...only medical degrees are "hare won." A Ph.D. in clinical psychology requires four years of graduate training and a year of internship. I doubt that many of us clinical psychologists simply "chat sympathetically and tell a patient 'You're much too hard on yourself...
...annual meeting of the Hyatt Corp. is generally an accommodating affair. Last week, however, the company's gathering in Chicago became the target of protesters who are up in arms over a conference scheduled later this month in the O'Hare International Trade and Exhibition Center and the Hyatt Hotel near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport...