Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President George Bush and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis both laid claim yesterday to precious, last-minute momentum in their campaign marathon, the vice president declaring the tide was "moving in our direction" and the combative underdog insisting he was "rocking and rolling" to an election victory tomorrow...
...director like John Schlesinger -- England-bred but with a resume full of Hollywood hits (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man) -- earns some respect when, in his new film Madame Sousatzka, he considers the clash of Anglo and Indian cultures. And Mira Nair, born in India and educated at Harvard, is to be cheered when she brings American movie expertise to her Salaam Bombay! In each film a bright Indian boy comes of age and finds the struggle for independence and maturity as daunting as it was for his country. Both are films of good intentions, but there the resemblance ends. Madame Sousatzka...
...page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves, ah, that wake rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell. Rose, curled outward, bubbled, and fell." Little in this prose marathon is particularly erotic or offensive; it is possible for long periods of time to forget entirely what is supposed to be going on. The point of the exercise seems to be verbal ingenuity, coupled with the message that pleasure can be damned hard, long work...
...refreshing to hear any Stones product that's this good, so good that it makes you wonder why all the Stones albums since the excellent Some Girls 10 years ago have been so lame. Maybe Richards needed to escape from the restrictions of the Stones' marathon studio sessions and ego circuses in order to stretch and flex his musical muscles...
...marathon, Kenyan Douglas Wakiihuri finished second. The great final race of the Games was won by Italy's Gelindo Bordin, who came on at the end. The last 2,000 meters "was like a war," said the exhausted, exhilerated champion...