Word: marathoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drug fiend, I'm not a drunkard, but I am the laziest man I ever met," joked Artur Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted...
...towels. Hefner's associates say that it is highly doubtful that hard drug or even marijuana consumption took place "under Hefner's eyes-or with his approval. In the past, Hefner has been a heavy user only of amphetamines-mostly to keep himself awake during his marathon editorial conferences...
Brady's book and the international tournament may well stimulate interest in Monopoly marathons, which have often erupted on college campuses. In an endurance test in Denver last summer, 34 students set a record by playing continuously for 41 nights and 42 days. When University of Pittsburgh players ran out of play money during a 161-hour marathon, Parker obligingly delivered $1 million worth of new scrip by plane and Brink's armored car. To allow a group of Massachusetts scuba buffs to play under water, the company devised a waterproof set; the game lasted 11 hours...
...uncertain effect. Rouben Ter-Arutunian has tastefully re-created Picasso's costumes and his imposing backdrop-a blue-gray cubist evocation of a moonlit street in 18th century Naples. The vital young Jeffrey dancers, moreover, prance through the one-act ballet as if caught up in a marathon tarantella. But breathing life into this Pulcinella is rather like trying to revive a dead tree by gluing fallen leaves back onto its limbs...
...depending upon when you receive this paper, you have a certain amount of time left to skip Greek 2740b this morning and hunker down in the plush, cavernous seats of the Music Hall in Boston for a few hours. You won't have to deal with anything. The marathon started at midnight last night, 10 films, the last six of which are From Here To Eternity, On The Waterfront, Bridge Over The River Kwai, Dr. Strangelove, Funny Girl, and The Professionals...