Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halfway into both meets, there was very little question as to their outcome and thoughts began turning to future events. Both the men and women will enter the B.C. relays this week. Dolf Berle will enter the decathalon, while Patterson and co-captain Karen Gray will enter the pentathlon...
...Footfalls, May (Karen Macdonald) calls her mother (Marianne Owen) back from the dead. Clad in flowing scarves and a long skirt, May reminisces about life before her mother's death. In the second part of this three-part development, the Voice (of May's mother) speaks for itself, and for the finale, May refutes her mother's speech. May, who later becomes Amy in a word-game switch typical of Beckett, seems to be attempting to put her mother, finally, to rest...
...many, though, there is a difference, if only one of sensibility. When Karen Ann Quinlan was taken off the respirator, her family fully expected her to die. She did not. Fed through a nasogastric tube, Quinlan, who turned 29 last week, continues to exist in a vegetative state in a nursing home. "She can hear me when I talk to her, and she can hear music. But no connection takes place inside," says Quinlan's mother Julia, who usually visits her daily. Though her daughter's recovery is impossible, she says, "We decided that removing the feeding tube...
...audience will make a subject sacrosanct anyway. Death, for example. They just don't want to laugh about death. I think we should. When my mother died, I kept going by doing joke after joke. I get rid of things through very black humor. I have a wonderful Karen Carpenter joke: 'I have no pity for anyone who becomes thin enough to get buried in pleats.' I tried it three times, and audiences gasped. They're just not ready...
...Crimson's top-seeded Elizabeth Evans led the way, downing Penn's Karen Nyman in straight sets. Only losses in the fourth and fifth singles divisions marred an otherwise perfect day for Harvard...