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...latest round of litigation in the Baby Jane Doe case was initiated by A. Lawrence Washburn Jr., 48, an attorney whom Baby Jane's parents have come to see as their tormentor. In mid-October, Washburn, a longtime antiabortion activist, first sued to force doctors to ignore the parents' decision and correct by surgery some of the birth defects that now limit the infant's life expectancy to two years. The state's highest court ruled that, as an outsider, Washburn had no standing to sue and that there was no need to take decisions about...
...story writer, she achieved the violent grace of a folk ballad. Something atavistic, something frontier-Texan came out in her. The sentences cut, like the wife's knife stabbing her husband's lover in "Maria Concepcion," like the farmer's ax splitting the head of his tormentor in "Noon Wine...
...have insulted him. Graduating from Saturday-night rental sex, he has a dizzy love affair with Althea Perry, a Vassar-educated poppet from Mount Ivy, N.J., whose allure is not at all dimmed by the fact that she is the daughter of Stavros' immediate boss and chief tormentor at the store. During World War I, Stavros has magnificent visions of a Greater Greece, when the wicked Turks will be laid low as the profits in rugs soar skyward. They almost come true. Meanwhile, the sisters grow older and unhappier. Of his favorite, Eleni, he remarks, "Her chest...
...FROG-POND SHALLOWNESS of Fairchild's acting ability-her transformation from chaser to chasee hasn't made her act any better-make you feel more like you're flipping through the pages of Playboy than patronizing a theater. When her tormentor finally causes her to break down, she whimpers like a small child would telling his mother that she doesn't love him anymore. And child is the better player of the role...
...that belied his good will. All of Israel was counting on me, he allowed, pounding me. How many kilometers on the Golan was it safe to give up? I inquired, if only to gain a temporary surcease. "Give up? Kilometers? On the Golan? You must be crazy!" shouted my tormentor, returning to his task with redoubled vigor...