Word: marathonical
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...screen lives have been defined by long, eventful, and obstacle-ridden journeys. Inspired by writer/director Samuel Fuller’s personal experiences as a soldier in World War II, this movie is not only one of the most comprehensive depictions of the seemingly never ending physical and emotional marathon that makes up soldiers’ lives. The film’s own genesis comprises quite a long and tortured journey in of itself...
...hotel, boasting $300-a-night rooms--Western executives crowd the lobby, rubbing shoulders with politicians and diplomats. The U.S. liaison office, the prelude to a real embassy, now operates out of bedrooms on an upper floor of the Corinthia. Two sparsely furnished suites serve as the temporary digs for Marathon Oil and ConocoPhillips, both of which suspended their large Libyan oil operations when U.S. sanctions were imposed in 1986. "Nobody really hates Americans here," says Abdullah Salim el-Badri, chairman of the country's National Oil Corp., which runs the huge oil fields abandoned by the Americans...
...even clearer hundreds of miles down the coast at the Essider Marine Terminal, from which oil is shipped by the government-owned Waha Oil Co. The company took over the operation from U.S. companies in 1986, when sanctions drove out the Oasis Group, a combination of Amerada Hess, Marathon Oil and Conoco. But a handful of American citizens are still at work in the facility and have been throughout the decades of sanctions, in violation of U.S. laws. "Basically, we never left," says Conrad B. Cazalas, 58, an electrician from Corpus Christi, Texas, sitting in Essider's dining hall...
...pulling yours.” This movie should be overnight Fed-Ex’ed to Lifetime, where they can show it over and over again in their next “Girl Has a Troubled Childhood, and Her Life Is Filled with Rape, Drugs, Prostitution and Murder Movie Marathon...
...addition to his scholarly background, Lieberman said his passion for running motivated his research. While he claims he is not a very good runner, he did train for the marathon as a graduate student and looks back with nostalgia on his days living beside the Charles as a tutor in Dunster House...