Word: katrina
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BORN: May 1, 1957, Bryn Mawr, Pa. EDUCATION: Yale U, B.A., 1979 FAMILY: Wife, Katrina Lantos-Swett; seven children RELIGION: Mormon MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Architect, energy consultant POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1991-95 ADDRESS: 19 Bow Road...
...basketball team, too, seemed refreshingly infused with team spirit, particularly compared with the ego-dominated Dream Team. "We don't want to take anything away from the guys," says forward Katrina McClain. "I love to watch them play myself. But we've been together a lot longer. We're more of a team than they are." So much of a team that their most famous member, Rebecca Lobo, didn't see much playing time, as coach Tara VanDerveer sacrificed a little star power for more speed on the court. "The joy of the party is just being with each other...
...differently. In the past, U.S. teams had little time to train together, little chance to become a team. A full year before Atlanta, a dozen of the best U.S. women were chosen for a pre-Olympic squad. Members were paid about $50,000 apiece--a bargain considering that forward Katrina McClain gave up a reported $300,000 offer to play in Europe. They played together, traveled together, stayed in bad hotels in foreign countries together, looked for the McDonalds in Moscow together, and most of all, won together. Playing exhibition games against the world's top teams, the Dream Girls...
...flame and gas, a blazing cylinder made visible as the elevator door exploded outward, showering sparks and embers on all in the room, setting fires on the green felt of the pool tables, and hurling into the air blazing splinters and sticks, one of which pierced the breast of Katrina and instantly set her gown aflame...
...Kennedy's effective devices here is to insert scenes from Daugherty's autobiographical plays from the early years of the 20th century. In them Edward's love for Katrina survives above the wreckage of their marriage. In other lightly veiled dramatizations of his life, he lashes out at a former mistress who sleeps her way to silent-movie stardom. "Love is vertical," he writes. "You are relentlessly horizontal." Off the stage he confronts the novel's villain, an envious journalist and failed writer, with the killer line, "If your fiction was half as imaginative as your lies, you would have...