Word: karens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what few blankets the prison-hospital could provide, all of them covered their heads when a Western woman paid an unexpected visit to the ward. Ill as they were, they still made a feeble effort to show their offense at the woman's appalling lack of modesty. For Karen Elliott House, The Wall Street Journal's diplomatic correspondent, it was not the first time she had risked offense...
Isak Dinesen by Judith Thurman. Karen Blixen, a modern Scheherazade, lived as a baroness in Denmark and a farmer in Africa; along the way she produced haunting stories, none more complex and intriguing than the one of her own life...
...Miracle. This is a tale of fiercely kindled passions and the bittersweet bondage of entwined destinies. It takes up the saga of Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan and John Macy, the man Annie wed, some 20 years after the events in Playwright William Gibson's earlier The Miracle Worker. Karen Allen, Jane Alexander and William Converse-Roberts irradiate their roles...
...attempting to match that misguided mission, Karen Key, 28, of Denver's NBC affiliate, KOA-TV, was not so lucky. When word came that a Pioneer Airlines commuter plane was missing in treacherous icy weather, a copter crew from one station refused to take off and another crew turned back in midflight. But Key, the nation's first woman TV reporter-helicopter pilot, pressed on. Within 45 minutes, she and Mechanic Larry G. Zane, 28, slammed into a snowy stand of pine trees near Larkspur, Colo., and died almost instantly...
Although B.C has never beaten Harvard, and UMass never process much of a threat, the Crimson was a bit uneasy entering Saturday's match. Coach Pappy Hunt felt that Harvard, plagued by the injuries of freshman sprinting sensation. Theresa Moore, and number-one high jumper and co-captain. Karen Gray, might lack the depth necessary to defeat what he called "the best B.C team ever...