Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BROTHER CARL has to do with a young Swedish woman named Karen who is suffering from an acute case of bourgeois angst and so decides to separate for a time from her lawyer husband and retarded child. She goes with a friend Lena to the island home of Lena's ex-husband Martin who spends his time caring for a once brilliant dancer named Carl now deeply scarred by his former devotion...
Martin and Lena trade bitter insults, Martin and Karen have an affair, Lena seduces Carl who in his thirties was still a virgin, then Lena drowns herself. And so on and so forth...
...Gazelle gives her crew the basic necessities of privacy and comfort. To enjoy his kind of life, says Colvin, a cruising man needs remarkably little money beyond the cost of his boat. Long passages at sea have taught the Colvins that they can live afloat with their three children - Karen, 16, Kevin, 11, and Kenneth, 9 - on an income of $3,600 a year. A careful yearly budget kept by Jean Colvin shows these expenses...
...Also: Karen L. Peterson of Quincy House and Honolulu, Hawaii; Linda Rink of Lowell House and Wilmington, Del.; Patti B. Saris of Dunster House and Boston; Abby Sniderman of Mather House and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Jill E. Stein of Dudley House and Highland Park, III.; Ann F. Thomas of Currier House and Cherry Hill, N.J.; Sarah E. Thompson of North House and Lexington, Ky.; Helen R. Trilling of Quincy House and Woodland Hills, Calif.; and, Nancy E. Wilson of Leverett House and Coral Gables...
...four airy Auroras who dance alternate performances, Karen Kain is an unexpected delight. In the pirouettes and balances of the Rose Adagio, she sustains holds to the brink of disaster...