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...tearful recollections. Instead, the directors rely on a rather commonplace scene in a dentist's office to evoke some of the horror of Kazem's persecution at the hands of the Shah's secret police. While Kazem lies prostrate in a dentist chair (a scene itself reminiscent of Marathon Man), the camera focuses on the dentist as he lights a match and uses it to sterilize a dental implement. The camera lingers on the match, and suddenly the memory of Kazem's early encounters with matches makes an ugly intrusion...
Zack Boukydis, a Harvard medical student who plans to run in the Boston Marathon "eventually," says he prefers the Fresh Pond track over the Charles bank where automobile fumes can often pose a problem...
...concert version-being done several times over. The Boston Symphony performed the Concerto for Orchestra, the piece it premiered in 1944. The biggest American celebration, though, was in Detroit, where 52 guest artists recently joined Conductor Antal Dorati, 74, a BartÓk pupil, for a twelve-day marathon...
...more than 25 years, Novelist Donald Newlove would not separate his need to write from his need to drink. He put himself in excellent company. Literary history is strewn with ego-alchemists who believed that they could turn alcohol and ink into art. But the marathon effort of a novel requires a clear head for architecture, and wine, as Dr. Johnson put it, "makes a man mistake words for thoughts...
Critical because on the same day Reese--in a marathon performance--went four outstanding matches in consolation play. Highlights included Reese's defeat of Yale's David Barrett, followed by his defeat of Penn's number-one player. Brian Roberts. an exhausted Reese bowed to Tufts' Willard Bigelow in his final match...