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...typical day during the Milan marathon consisted of about ten showings, each roughly 45 minutes in length and in different halls at the Milan Trade Fair Center. The seating plan was generally the same for each designer. On one side of the runway sat emissaries from the U.S. heavyweights: Women's Wear Daily (Publisher John Fairchild, Associate Editor Carolyn Gottfried, European Fashion Writer Marian McEvoy), the New York Times (Morris, Carrie Donovan of the Sunday Magazine), the Washington Post (Hyde), the International Herald Tribune (Hebe Dorsey), Vogue (Fashion Editor Polly Mellen) and Harper's Bazaar (Fashion Editor Gloria...
...Crimson with a fifth place finish in the 500 freestyle the first evening, followed by a seventh place swim in the 200 freestyle and a gutsy third place 1650 finish on the second and third nights, respectively. The only other Crimson point was scored by Larry Countryman in the marathon...
Davis contracted with Doubleday in 1969 to write a novel about two women who, in search of something missing in their lives, attend a "nude encounter workshop." As part of her research, Davis spent 20 hours at the Los Angeles center where Bindrim pioneered the "nude marathon," a therapy in which participants strip naked to gather in a pool, where they spend long periods talking and touching. Bindrim, 59, describes this as a way to teach people "how to be more open toward one another and to relate in a more authentic and satisfying manner." When Davis' book appeared...
...role of the marathon man of the chamber field can become confining, and too much Baroque music, as Marriner says, "is like being in a sewing machine factory." A few years ago, he began taking more and more engagements with symphonic ensembles. Conducting orchestras such as the Concertgebouw, the Boston Symphony and the French National Orchestra, he decided that what he had learned with chamber orchestras "translated very well into the symphonic world." A good thing too because now, at 55, Marriner is deep into the first season of his most challenging symphonic assignment yet, as music director...
...Norway, we say that if you can be good in the 5,000 and 10,000, you can't do the 500. But Eric can do it. We have no idea how to train to take him. We just hope he retires." "What Heiden is doing," said U.S. Marathon Star Bill Rodgers as Eric's medals piled up, "is comparable to a guy winning everything from the 400 meters to the 10,000 meters in track. There may be guys who can do 5,000 and 10,000 meters, but to do this-my God! Equating...