Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cabbies and barbers have long been assailed for marathon talking, but it is unjust that they so often wind up at the top of the list of nuisances. Indeed, cabbies are often mute and sullen, and ever since barbers became stylists they have felt sufficiently superior to clients that their urge to talk has diminished...
...Thompson noted a sharp drop in the razzing she got after the U.S. hostages were taken in Tehran. ROTC, she feels, has also benefited from student enthusiasm for fitness and outdoor life. Says she: "We've had more civilian participation in ROTC activities like rafting, rappelling and the marathon...
Even London's Aldwych Theater is transformed from an auditorium to a living part of Victorian England. Actors in costume greet the audience and show them to their seats. (Playgoers can see the production on two successive nights or, on Saturdays, in a marathon interrupted by a dinner break.) The cast then assembles onstage like a huge family and recites, in alternating chorus, a prologue to the curious life and adventures of Mr. Nicholas Nickleby. If this chorus work is an adaptation of classical theater technique-mastered in another grand R.S.C. production, The Greeks, staged last whiter -the sudden...
Earlier this year the stalwart band of stick-wielders travelled to the District of Columbia for a five-match field hockey marathon session, playing two Washington-based clubs, the Freeport, Bahamas club, the Trinidad Tobago Police team, and a Dutch squad, all within two days. The Crimson lost some very close games, but Ho recalls several World Cup players on the opposition who complimented his players on their skill. The American Field Hockey Asoc. was apparently impressed as well, and are keeping an eye on Harvard for potential Olympic players...
MARRIED. Dustin Hoffman, 43, versatile film actor (Papillon, Marathon Man) who this year won an Academy Award for his performance in Kramer vs. Kramer; and Lisa Gottsegen, 25, a lawyer; he for the second time, six days after his divorce from Anne Byrne, his actress-dancer wife of eleven years; in Roxbury, Conn. Hoffman and Gottsegen met through his parents and her grandparents, who were neighbors in Los Angeles...