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...Crimson iceman looked tired from then marathon efforts at Cornell the night before...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Work Overtime | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...mass funeral-which was also the 74th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and therefore had to be commemorated, after a moment of silence, by a marathon and a parade-Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and several top officials helicoptered into ruined San Juan Ixhuatepec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Fire in the Dawn Sky | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...like a cool shower after the heat of the marathon." That is how Comedian-Actress Whoopi Goldberg, 34, describes her Cinderella-like transformation from obscure performance artist to star of her own one-woman Broadway show. Like the drug addicts, Valley Girls, cripples and others she portrays, Goldberg is no stranger to life's vicissitudes. "I am my show," she explains. "The characters I play on the stage have been on a long trek of self-discovery." A native New Yorker, she performed in small theaters on both coasts before being Great-White-Wayed by Mike Nichols, who oversaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 26, 1984 | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...began one of WHRB's oldest traditions, the musical "orgy," Van Ummerson is still remembered as one of the station's great innovators, and the marathon orgies he inspired have become a Reading Period standard at the station, focusing on more than just classical music and ranging from live folk music to reggae...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: On the Air And Under The Ground | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...really 1948. Mondale is Harry Truman, with a handsome, vindictive grin, flourishing the headline of the Chicago Daily Tribune. Conjuring doubts to keep the pundits honest. The great hyperkinetic exercise had come to its final stage, like the jitterbugging burst at the end of a '30s dance marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Polls at Last | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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