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...dictionary in one hand," giggles Gunston School Junior Sandy Luna. "I learned a lot of new words like proclivity." The six ideas, handled in six two-hour sessions: Truth. Goodness. Beauty. Liberty. Equality. Justice. What they are engaged in is nothing less than a moral philosophy marathon, and at first the students seem cowed. Less than 15 minutes into the opening session, when Adler asks for questions about truth with a capital T, only a few raise their hands...
...Hatch and Stafford by telephone from Camp David on Sunday to see if an accommodation could be reached. The following night, Hatch, Weicker, Stafford, Budget Director David Stockman, Health Secretary Richard Schweiker and Education Secretary Terrell Bell assembled in Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's office for a marathon bargaining session...
...Hawaiian beach after launching Star Wars, began embroidering his tale for Spielberg, his friend. "I felt like I was eating a barrel of popcorn at a noon matinee," Spielberg recalls. Two years later they called in Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, who shared the screenplay credit on Empire, for a marathon "pitching" session. For five consecutive nine-hour days the three men shouted, argued, paced and acted out the story until its line was firm. "We are general practitioners," explains Spielberg. "The best work I do is when I'm locked in a room with people I respect and have...
Richard Nixon may one day run for the U.S. Senate. Rosie Ruiz may run in another Boston Marathon. But it is a mystery why Jerry Lewis would choose to run around, fall down, go cross-eyed or winsome in one more movie comedy. Comedy is a taxonomic term here, not evaluative. The only people laughing at Lewis' first film released since 1970 are in the movie-supporting players earning their keep by pampering the star-director-screenwriter. Jer, 55, is still the goony kid from the '50s, talking while eating a doughnut, parading in drag, leading a children...
...empty gesture. Two days before, at a marathon session of the Central Committee, the party leadership had shown that it is out of step with its East bloc allies in far more fundamental ways. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania sought throughout the 19-hour session to satisfy the demands of his party's grass-roots reformers without openly challenging the Kremlin. In his own 90-minute speech, for example, he was careful to stress Poland's unshakable loyalty to the Soviet bloc. Ultimately, however, he seemed to come down clearly, and boldly, on the side of further democratization. Promising...