Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night last April, Karen Ann Quinlan, 21, went to bed saying she was not feeling well. She never woke up. Stricken with a still undiagnosed malady (perhaps the result of mistakenly mixing a tranquilizer and drinks), she has remained in a coma ever since. One side of her permanently damaged brain shows almost no sign of functioning while the other gives off only slight but steady signals visible on an electroencephalogram. Last week, unwittingly, Karen Ann became the focus of the continuing legal-medical-ethical controversy over how to define death...
...Limbo. For her adoptive parents, the anguish is already five months old. For a while, Julia Ann Quinlan prayed for Karen's recovery, then that "God would take her." Joseph Quinlan, a section supervisor at Warner-Lambert, a pharmaceutical company, found it harder to give up, but "finally, I had to." Karen's neurologist declared she had "extensive cerebral damage" and saw "no hope." Nonetheless a respirator and other medical aid promised to hold her almost indefinitely in her limbo between life and death. The Quinlans realized they would have to take an affirmative step to allow Karen...
With the exception of the crucial loss of star forward Karen Linsley, who suffered pulled knee ligaments last week, the team has, been relatively injury free...
Still, emotions were high inside many schools. Said Karen O'Leary, 15, a white freshman at South Boston High School: "It's very strange. We just eye each other." Added a white schoolmate, Susan Downs, 15: "It's scary. With the black kids coming in, it's getting more and more tense. You can't trust anybody because you never know what they'll do." Kenny Williams, a black student at Boston's Hyde Park High School, found that "everything is cool right now. Of course all the white kids here are being nice to us, but you know they...
...Back, promises the album cover of Neil Sedaka, 36, the pop tunesmith who set penny loafers dancing with hits like Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. For now, however, Sedaka is simply back out of work. Hired as a show opener for a tour by Richard and Karen Carpenter, Sedaka lasted seven days at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas and then was abruptly fired. "I was asked to leave because of standing ovations," complained the singer-songwriter, whose big receptions by Vegas crowds made him a hard act for the Carpenters to follow. At least breaking up is getting...