Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murdoch and Kluge, already friends, exchanged pleasantries; before long, Kluge was sounding out Murdoch and Davis about selling them Metromedia's string of television stations. A discussion over dinner led the following day to serious talks, which eventually led to marathon meetings in Kluge's apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers. As the hard-driving Murdoch described the complex bargaining that followed, "You find things you don't expect, you shout, you scream...
...marina is part of Marathon, halfway between Key Largo and Key West. The town's charms are not readily apparent to a traveler, who usually sees only a six-mile treeless stretch of U.S. Highway 1, where bars and cheap shopping malls are chaotically assembled under the glaring sun, lined up with occasional fading signs offering time-share condo developments. It is hard to earn a living legally in the Florida Keys, and the local residents hold two firm contradictory beliefs: 1) zoning and planning are outrageous interferences with free enterprise, and 2) mentioning aloud the less than salubrious effects...
...road to Boot Key Marina reflects an earlier, but no more graceful, state of Marathon's history. In a moldering trailer park a resident sits listlessly on top of a motorcycle, airing her black eye. Towers of lobster traps fill a fish yard. A dilapidated fish market offers the catch fresh from the fleet. The water in the harbor is a long way from crystalline...
...gentrification of Boot Key Marina has begun. At the end of March the Pluhars sold it to a man named John Theurer. Rumor swept through Marathon that the selling price was over $2 million. Nobody knew much about the buyer. Up and down Highway 1, in the banks and the bars and the early-morning breakfast places, people were telling one another that he was part of the Theurer family that had made its money in truck- trailer manufacturing. "To be fair, no one knows what he is going to do with the marina," said a longtime resident, sitting...
...earth by still more macho men. Yet women have their place in this movie filing their pink nails baking birthday takes posing in the background with little to say or wear. One women though is allowed to touch a word processor. And our heroine Diana participates in a marathon chase scene through the Loop and remembers not to drop her purse Later the survives a night from the ceiling her armpits are unshaven but she still Looks sexy...