Word: optometrist
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...killer didn't stick to the plan. When the shooting was over, both Stahl and Oppy were dead. Then the killer left--no witnesses, no clues, not even an empty shell casing on the ground. Just a middle-aged doctor and his optometrist wife lying in their car for more than an hour before a local security guard found them in their big sleep...
...night of the murders, Carolyn Oppy was looking forward to dinner with her husband to celebrate her 44th birthday. "She called that day and told us Ken had a big surprise for her. She sounded hopeful," says Dubay. Oppy loved her work as an optometrist, was popular with the patients, even getting the cranky ones to loosen up and laugh with her. The one person she couldn't get through to was her husband, whose affairs saddened and angered her at the same time. She had considered divorce, but in the end, she held on, hoping Stahl would change...
COLOR ME BAD A new teen trend first emerged last Halloween in the guise of red demonic eyes, but orange and yellow eyes have become commonplace in some areas. To achieve these colors not found in either nature or the optometrist's office, kids are dyeing their soft contacts with ordinary food coloring. But food coloring is not sterile, and the American Optometric Association warns that the risk of infection, irritation and permanent eye damage is high...
...excellent job in presenting both sides of laser eye surgery. As an optometrist, I am not recommending this procedure. History will teach us that the cornea is not a structure we can mess around with. The risks (e.g., current surgical mishaps and potentially devastating long-term complications) are simply not worth it. CLAYTON Y. GUSHIKEN, O.D. Honolulu...
This writing-class hero grew up in Paterson, N.J., the adopted son of an optometrist and a stagestruck housewife who performed in charity shows. Says Vilanch: "She'd sing, do sketches--she's naturally very funny--and I'd imitate her and her friends." At Ohio State he wrote reviews and appeared in plays. "I was going to be Neil Simon, batting out one Broadway show after another." Then he joined the Chicago Tribune as a reviewer-columnist. One night he met the young Midler and said, "You're very funny. You should talk more onstage." He began honing Midler...