Word: karla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Therese Sellers and Karla Amble ran remarkable races, as both crossed the finish line just seconds shy of the course record. The two exchanged the lead several times in the last mile before Sellers pulled ahead in the last 100 yards to take first place...
...bulk of the Crimson's low scoring had come earlier, when Sullivan, Karla Amble, Therese Sellers and Linsley the senior turned in four sterling performances to set up the Minutemen -- Minutewomen? -- for the coup de grace...
Born in Los Angeles, raised in Westwood right next to the U.C.L.A. campus, Karla spent her early years "being into clothes and stuff." At 16, however, she started lining up on Mondays outside the Troubadour in L.A. to audition material for hoot night and catch early performances by James Taylor and Jackson Browne. "The music scene was first attractive for social life," Bonoff recalls now. "I was bored with the other kids in high school and be coming kind of a hippie...
...Karla tried U.C.L.A. for six weeks, got her boyfriend, Bassist Kenny Edwards (a mainstay of the Ronstadt band), to write her English papers, then dropped out. The pair formed a group called Bryndle with Wendy Waldman and Andrew Gold, cut one unreleased album and ended up playing for rent money in a bar near the airport. "We did Top 40 stuff like Jumpin ' Jack Flash and I Want to Take You Higher, " she says, adding: "At least my piano playing got stronger...
Sarcastic, funny and sexy, Trouble Again is just the kind of song Karla Bonoff says she wants right now: "more humorous, less dreamy-eyed." Linda won't get this one, and Karla will not need to give it up or even loan it out. It's all hers...