Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coupling the two shows is by no means unheard of, and one director recently combined the two into a six-hour marathon. It is still a winning combination, carried out smoothly by the BSC. Most of the cast is identical for the two shows, with the disappointing exception of Hamlet himself, and selected routines evoke one show in the midst of another--notably, the first entrance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet, in which the two, with more snap and individuality than such small parts would otherwise command, silently go through one of Stoppard's coin-flipping routines...
...like herds of oestrous gazelles down side streets. Marriages were threatened when one spouse trained for a marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. For a while it seemed to be a fad, one more instantaneous American fixation like the twist or the Hula-Hoop. The U.S., after all, had become the country of spectator sports, hadn't it? Walking was all but unAmerican. Long-distance running was for Europeans. "It'll never...
...almost new field of sports medicine is now a legitimate $2 billion specialty. The total bill by year's end: more than $30 billion. The surest indicator of the current dominance of fitness was the flood of applicants for the twelfth New York City Marathon last Sunday. New York Road Runner's Club President Fred Lebow spent $1,000 out of his own pocket a decade ago, when 233 marathoners entered the event. This year 25,000 runners applied for 16,000 places. Replete with controversy over mismanagement and under-the-table payments to top amateurs, the race...
...close and personal." They proved neither as intimidating nor as unmatchable as they seemed from a distance. If petulant Jimmy Connors could do it, playing tennis had possibilities for Everyman. In 1972 television struck another blow for fitness when Frank Shorter, the first American to win the Olympic marathon in recent times, lunged across the finish line in Munich's Olympic Stadium and into 13,540,000 American households. The images wavering on the color tube informed viewers that there were better things to do with the body than leave it in an easy chair clutching a beer...
...appropriately attired women are dashing toward fitness as never before. As recently as 1967, though, an irate official tried to rip the cardboard number from the sweatshirt of a runner labeled K. SWITZER near the start of the Boston Marathon. He had discovered that the K stood for Kathrine. Kathy Switzer, then 20, managed to elude the man and went on to finish, the first woman with a number in the marathon's history to do so. Today there are 15 million women runners in America, and Switzer, 34, is the head of Avon Cosmetics' $5 million sports...