Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some newer names on the Crimson roster also made the stat sheet Freshman Karen Garibaldi and Mary Beth Healy each scored two goals, while sophomore Brigitte Duffy and freshman Linda Doyle added one goal and two assists apiece...
...Post's reaction underscored the dilemma of the Avis of wire services: U.P.I, cannot outstrip the dominant A.P. except by showing enterprise on stories; yet when it does, clients chafe that its ambitions may lead to carelessness with facts. Post Foreign Editor Karen DeYoung said that "it made no difference" that the assertive report came from U.P.I, rather than A.P. Still, quite a few news executives share the judgment of William Greer, associate news editor of the Miami Herald: "U.P.I, has had a reputation for shooting from the hip." Adds Greer: "They have done a good job the past...
...Harold & Sarah & Sam & Karen & Michael & Meg & Nick-classmates all from the University of Michigan at the end of our last interesting decade-have come to the funeral of a friend who has slashed his wrists. Alex was a charismatic prodigy of science and friendship and progressive hell raising who opted out of academe to try social work, then manual labor, then suicide. He is presented as a victim of terminal decompression from the orbital flight of his college years: a worst-case scenario his friends must ponder, probing themselves for symptoms of the disease...
...threw off the "disgusting curse of being a good girl" and had an affair with Alex. Sam (Tom Berenger), once a Movement rhetorician, went to Hollywood and became the macho private eye in a hit TV series, which one of his pals describes as "a sitcom with a machete." Karen (JoBeth Williams), who used to be a closet poet, is now the restless wife of an ad executive. Michael (Jeff Goldblum) made Alex famous by writing about him in the Michigan Daily; now he profiles 14-year-old blind baton twirlers for PEOPLE and tries vainly to assign himself...
Occasionally the implied reaction to the intrusion proves less mild, less forgiving, in light of the events which unfold. "Monster Deal" ends in bitterness and anger when the female intruder all but kidnaps Karen, the teenage paper-delivery girl the narrator is attracted to; the two women go off laughingly together on Karen's Friday afternoon paper route and return dead drunk on Saturday morning, having obviated Karen's Friday night dinner date--the first--with the narrator. This story, too, begins familiarly...