Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Karen, 42, began gambling at age eight, flipping baseball cards against garage doors. At 13, she shot craps with boys in the co-ed locker room of Ralston Junior High in Belmont, Calif. As a young married woman, she started going to Las Vegas and the poker tables at Gardena, Calif. "All of a sudden, it wasn't the money anymore," she says. "It was the action, the high." On one occasion, she told her young son to wait on a street corner after school, and she would pick him up at 2:30 p.m. for a dental appointment...
...daily agenda. In one of the last places that women regularly gather without men around, there is much discussion of quads, glutes and pecs. Many of these women know their cholesterol count, optimum training heart rate and body-fat percentage. Says instructor and center co-owner Karen Shaffer, 43, who bears a striking resemblance to Carol Burnett: "We talk about boobs a lot." Jazzercise is also an hour of dancing, something that women seem to like a good deal more than men do. Says writer and editor Phyllis Kluger, 51, a six-year Jazzercise veteran: "I enjoy dancing...
...assigned roommates and I got along wonderfully most of the time. Karen and I shared a "clean" fetish and spent hours scrubbing the hall bathroom before parents weekend and more hours laughing about how gross it was afterwards; Kim and I had survived pre-med Chemistry together, forging a bond not unlike the friendships survivors of war share; and Michelle and I mainly complained about the venerable vegetables in the Union and spent a lot of time at Christy's and Store 24 buying Ramen and instant soup...
...Karen W. Levy...
...Karen and I have been doing this all year and it really hasn't worked out," Bailliere admitted...