Word: kates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next event to set off cheers and a standing ovation from the Harvard crowds came in the 3000-meter, after Army had swept all the shorter distances. Harvard's Kate Wiley tired her opponents with 15 speedy laps, finishing...
...however, mostly stays home to tackle other earth-moving topics. Will Mike Doonesbury (Ralph Bruneau), who is presented onstage as a whiny, pigeon-toed virgin reminiscent of Walter Denton on the old Our Miss Brooks TV series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed Uncle Duke (Gary Beach) from "turning our commune into a flophouse for dopeheads and burnouts"? These problems, and the question...
...including the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Yale Law School, and, at 45, an astute observer and listener based at The New Yorker. Like Speedboat, the new book is an artful arrangement of discontinuous parts. Its narrator exemplifies the fugitive detachment nurtured by young intellectuals in the 1950s. Her name is Kate Ennis, though her identity is never as clear as her prose. At one point, Ennis, or someone who sounds like her, appears to be carrying a passport issued to Adler...
...Kate is an enviable model of today's mature New York woman. True, her long affair with a married man is coming to an end, but she appears to have the money and job flexibility to travel freely and maintain a house in the country as well as an apartment in Manhattan. Her friends include diplomats, politicians, poets and distinguished professionals, with such names as Leander Dworkin and Ezra Paris...
...Kate's lover is just plain Jake. It is to him that much of Pitch Dark is addressed. The theme of exasperating love, of life with half a loaf, is a constant that puts the narrator's more transitory emotions in humorous perspective. Among them is a case of heebie-jeebies brought on by a side trip to Ireland. In a set piece that could be mistaken for a parody of Hitchcock, Kate makes her way in a balky rental car to a coastal castle...