Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident delayed the signing ceremony for only 50 minutes; it turned out that the woman, a 31-year-old psychologist named Karen Cooper, was protesting the government's handling of an urban renewal project in London's historic Covent Garden market, not Britain's joining the Common Market. But on a day devoted to symbolic ceremony, the affair could be viewed as an unhappy omen of the sort of political accident that can still upset the plans of Britain and its partners on their way to market in Europe...
...Karen Chase, the celebrated basketball star at Windham College up in Putney, Vt., has split her off-campus house to head south for Saturday and Sunday...
...good at conveying the casual desperation of someone scuffling along the fringes of show biz, biding his time and hoping for a break. Some of his scenes have the unhurried air of good improvisation. Others are burdened by some awfully thick dialogue. At one point, Cisco's girl (Karen Black) demands, "It's me or dealing; make up your mind...
Kristofferson, himself something of a rock star, eases through his first dramatic role in sleepy, sardonic style. Karen Black has played her part, or a slight variation on it, so many times before that even her presence is a cliche. Gene Hackman's psychopathic cop, already on view in The French Connection, is also familiar but a good deal more substantial...
...where can he run? The city offers no sanctuary. J. finds temporary solace with a spacy little number named Farm (Karen Black), but the cops are soon on his back again. They want him to help trap the pusher. It is at this point that Born to Win breaks down into arbitrary and rather predictable melodrama. The pusher gets wise to the scheme. He unloads some bad dope on J., but J.'s buddy Billy Dynamite (Jay Fletcher) shoots it first and dies. Scared, J. wants nothing more to do with the cops' scheme, so they bust Farm...