Word: karens
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...DeLillo but his main character, Bill Gray, 63, a famously reclusive writer a la Salinger, Pynchon or B. Traven who lives in a rural hideaway somewhere within a 200-mile radius of New York City. Bill's household also includes Scott, his devoted fan, secretary, factotum and nanny; and ; Karen, a refugee from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church who once took part in an arranged group marriage of 6,500 couples...
...Karen's former immersion in mass behavior, which left her "immunized against the language of self," gives her a preternatural sensitivity to mob scenes that flicker on TV. Watching pictures of the frenzied mourners at the funeral of the Ayatullah Khomeini, she is both appalled and enraptured and wonders how people, after seeing such a spectacle, can go on living in the same old ways: "Why is nothing changed, where are the local crowds, why do we still have names and addresses and car keys?" Bill, who has made a fetish of his own individuality and remoteness from others, looks...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...
...other students, Kristene and Karen, claim to have suffered similar experiences at the hands of another student; all four of the Carleton women have filed suit against the college. They claim the school knew these men had a history of sexual abuse and did nothing to prevent their attacking again. Even after the men were found guilty of sexual harassment, they were allowed to remain on campus, and the victims were barred from warning their dorm mates under the college's privacy policy. The local police chief says that in the past six years, no Carleton official has brought...
...weeks, all Karen Reid of Oak Ridge, Tenn., heard from her son Scott, she says, was, "Reebok Pumps this, Reebok Pumps that." The fourth-grader wanted her to buy him a pair of the flashy high tops and explaining why she refused to part with $150 for athletic shoes got her nowhere. Then Scott read that the Pump was heavy and can be uncomfortable...