Word: laurene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballet, elevation means the height of a dancer's leap and seeming suspension in the air. In a musical comedy, elevation could mean a playgoer's inner leap for joy while suspended in an evening of sheer pleasure. Except for Lauren Bacall, Woman of the Year is a show of hazardously low elevation...
...Crimson, next year's tournament is already on the calendar. Harvard will sorely miss graduating seniors Lauren Norton, Sara Fischer, Carol Buttenwieser and Lisa Glen, but coach Harder, the only female mentor in the league, hopes for another good recruiting year. Says Harder, "We've come a long way this year. It's unfortunate that we didn't show it in the tournament...
...captain faced each other, Harvard's Lauren Norton versus Dartmouth's Janics Ellis, while in the other zone, yardling net-minder Cheryl Tate looked out of her mask at Big Green winger DeAngelis at the red line...
MacShane's research included conversations with O'Hara's brothers, sisters, wives and more distant relatives. He lists hundreds of contacts in the acknowledgements, including Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., John McPhee, William Saroyan (apparently still kicking around), Frank Sinatra, John Cheever and John Updike. They all find their way into the narrative. O'Hara's employers--Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, The New Yorker, Random House and the Screenwriters Guild--allowed MacShane to dig through O'Hara's files...
Norton's devotion to the game as a freshman motivated her to aid Nelia Worsley and Tania Huber in forming the women's hockey club team, which, after a year's existence, gained varsity status. 'Lots of people were talking about forming a women's team, but Lauren and a few others actually approached (men's coach) Bill Cleary about the idea," says Harvard Sports Information Director Bertagna, coached the icewomen during their first year...