Precisely. Whoever killed this young girl was sinistromanual, an unusual state in this day. / My murderer was left-handed? That is most unusual, I agree. How do you come to that finding?

Barbie is viewed as an icon of American culture in her new biography, Barbie: Her Life and Times (Crown, $25), written by Billy Boy, a clothing and jewelry designer in Paris.

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She accuses Norman Mailer, in an interview, of being a professional jockocrat (102).