Word: marathoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have of the land of tinsel. Goldman's new book, the autobiography/gossip/self-help Adventures in the Screen Trade comes at a strange point in his career. Although he's had a hand in some of the silver screen's finest fun-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Hot Rock, Marathon Man, for instance-his last critical and commercial hit. All the President's Men appeared seven years ago. Thus much of this insider's view sounds like crybaby bitching from someone who feels like last year's model...
Your coverage of the Boston Marathon results Tuesday disturbed me. Shattering the women's world marathon record by nearly three minutes is no small feat--surely Joan Benoit deserved more than a sub-headline and just two paragraphs buried in the middle of your story. A few personal quotes or some biographical details about her, as you had for Greg Meyer, the men's winner, would have made your article more complete. I hope in the future your sports department will be more professionally objective in coverage of women's athletics. Sara G. Shields...
...shocked if you bump into someone running laps around the Yard this weekend. The jogger is not a straggler from this week's Boston Marathon, but a participant in a 347-mile relay which is sponsored by a student meditation group...
...four-day bus trip can do that to you Back-to-back doubleheaders didn't help. While 6000 masochists ran from Hopkinton to the Pru, the batmen were involved in their own marathon...
...light of Monday's marathon, it seems that running has hit full stride again in the Boston area. This is the time to pull out the running stories, not as cautionary tales, but just as something to think about while cruising along the Charles or charging over the hills at Fresh Pond...