Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PINPOINTING the problem spots in each Core area and developing course ideas may require some subcommittees to hold marathon brainstorming sessions. They should also send a questionnaire to students--especially freshmen and sophomores--asking what they would like to see added to the Core. This is not to imply that the subcommittees--which each include two students--would be incapable of doing the job themselves. But suggestions from students who must select from the Core offerings could evolve into workable course ideas...
...particularly angered by Humanoids, and I asked an Orson Welles staff-member, who claimed to be soliciting feedback, why the film had been programmed. He seemed genuinely puzzled by my outrage, and pointed out that, in terms of audience reaction, it had been the most successful film of the marathon. "And the ending," he said. "Everybody loved the ending...
...denounced the horror genre as sexist, racist, sadistic, whatever, but that attitude has always struck me as priggish and unimaginative. At least until I sat through 12 torturous, claustrophobic hours at the Orson Welles and realized that even I--a horror buff since age six--had my limits. (The marathon did, incidentally, feature three superb films: Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face, Peter Bogdanovitch's Targets, and Terence Fisher's Frankenstein Created Women, the latter boasting a marvelous performance by the superlative Peter Cushing.) I haven't lost faith in the form: horror has traditionally brought kids through adolescence...
...analysts believe that several other companies, including General American the of Texas and Marathon Oil of Ohio, are likely to follow the Mesa or Houston examples. As the exploration boom heats up, many firms may be anx ious to jettison old wells and concentrate on wild-cat drilling. One uncertainty about the trusts: the Internal Revenue Service has yet to rule on the tax benefits that will shower on shareholders. Until then, Texas tycoons will continue drilling through this large loophole...
...talked the Canadian Cancer Society into sponsoring his run as a fund-raising venture, and he wore a white T shirt labeled MARATHON OF HOPE. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just because they're disabled...