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Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales: Difference between revisions
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
During this time Norman Mailer would often abuse many types of drugs and alcohol. Mailer also had a short temper and would happily engage in head-butting, arm-wrestling, and random punch throwing. For much of the '50s he drifted, frequently drunk or stoned or both. {{sfn|McGrath|2007|p=3}} The Mailers had been married six years. Norman was waiting on a hearing of a charge of disorderly conduct. He had gotten into a hassle over a tab of $7.60 a week before at Birdland. Adele told the arresting detectives the night of November 20 that he had been displaying "homicidal tendencies". Their family had been attempting to get him to see a psychiatrist. | During this time Norman Mailer would often abuse many types of drugs and alcohol. Mailer also had a short temper and would happily engage in head-butting, arm-wrestling, and random punch throwing. For much of the '50s he drifted, frequently drunk or stoned or both. {{sfn|McGrath|2007|p=3}} The Mailers had been married six years. Norman was waiting on a hearing of a charge of disorderly conduct. He had gotten into a hassle over a tab of $7.60 a week before at Birdland. Adele told the arresting detectives the night of November 20 that he had been displaying "homicidal tendencies". Their family had been attempting to get him to see a psychiatrist.Mailer's life had been publicly marred by several incidents which raised doubts about his emotional stability. {{sfn|Mills|1982|p=215}} | ||
==The Incident== | ==The Incident== | ||