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In February in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, the first hearing was held in former attorney Reginald Frazier’s lawsuit against the state bar association for disbarring and imprisoning him. Frazier’s choice of an attorney to represent him was C.C. “Buddy” Malone of Durham, North Carolina, whose own license had been recently suspended for five years by the state bar.
Impatient Spouses
In February in Little Rock Heather Sherrard threatened to file a criminal complaint against KATV consumer reporter Dewayne Graham for harassing her. With Sherrard’s help, Graham filed a TV report on how to change the code on garage door openers. He then allegedly went back twice to Sherrard’s house on his own and opened the door using the old code. Afterward he reportedly left a message on Sherrard’s answering machine, scolding her for not taking his professional consumer advice.
In May Minneapolis artist Judy Olausen’s hardcover photographic essay, Mother, finally hit the bookstores. Olausen’s project, which made News of the Weird in June 1993 as a work in progress, features her mother, then 70, as a series of passive, subordinate characters. Included are images of her mother kneeling on all fours with a pane of glass on her back, Mother as Coffee Table, and lying alongside a highway, Mother as Road Kill. Said Olausen in 1992, “My brothers think I’m torturing my mother,” but actually “I’m immortalizing her.”
