Word: marathonical
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...great gift is that she has a terrific set of ears. She listens to what's going on at the avant-garde edge and has an uncanny ability to recognize bits that, in a different context, could have mainstream appeal. Think about "Hung Up"; it's a 5:37 marathon of a song, the kind of thing that shouldn't work outside of a dance club. But keeping in mind that pop listeners are used to time-released thrills every 30 seconds or so - you know, hooks - she's thrown in about 20 of them. Some are immediately recongnizable, like...
...Oprah, but America tends to like its TV hosts risible: fussy Alex Trebek, funny-haired Donald Trump, screwball Kelly Ripa. "Being fallible works to my advantage," says Ricki Lake, who has gone from the queen of train-wreck talk to the cheerfully awkward M.C. of CBS's Gameshow Marathon...
...insurance. The deal has yet to be ratified by the union, which has more than 440,000 members throughout North America. But Evan Paster, the leader of the union’s local chapter, announced yesterday’s breakthrough in glowing terms. “In a marathon session yesterday, Local 26 Dining Hall Workers won the best contract in the history of our union at Harvard University!” he wrote. Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, a leader of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which collected over 1,300 signatures last month in a campaign...
...Benjamin Ungar, “I wasn’t pushing the bus. I got home early. I sort of wish I was there for the experience. I’ve heard some stories.”The 20-minute drive from the hotel turned into a four-hour marathon. When the Crimson rolled into Columbia’s University Gym, it met—and violently dispatched—Brown and Penn. Princeton, located 150 miles closer to Columbia than Harvard, never made it.After the matches, Columbia head coach George Kolombatovich, who had held the league championship trophy since...