Word: marathoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since Arok was born, Skora's life has been a nonstop marathon of local television talk-show appearances (about 30, he figures) and visits from would-be agents, manufacturers and licensees (Skora recently signed a deal to license foot-high Arok toys in Japan). Arok has become a favorite on the convention and industrial-show circuit and wows 'em at bank branch openings by incinerating the ceremonial ribbon with his laser gun. His top appearance...
Bernard Hinault, marathon bicyclist, explaining the philosophy that won for him the 1978 Tour de France: "I have no complexes. That's the only way to succeed...
...camera she has been a double agent in Marathon Man and a Palestinian terrorist in Black Sunday. Off the set, Swiss-born Marthe Keller is a homebody who has just finished furnishing a Manhattan apartment and plans to settle in New York City. "Some day I would like to play a nice American girl," she says. First, she is off to Europe, where she has the title role in the movie Lulu, yet another adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play about a German seductress compelled to destroy the lives of her lovers. "Lulu is decadent and perverse...
...reaching the unconscious rapidly," he says. "Man was meant to be a moving animal, but he's become sedentary. Distance running can bring us back to the basics of what we're here for." Lawrence has noticed that after 14 to 18 miles of a marathon, people often break down and cry, or babble to strangers about their childhood memories and problems-exactly the kind of breakthrough that conventional talk therapists look...
During the 1974 match, a 24-game marathon that Karpov won by the slimmest of margins, Korchnoi complained bitterly about Karpov's habit of staring intently at him across the board. By the end of their exhausting nine-week battle, recalled one spectator, "they were like two boxers after 15 rounds, leaning against each other, hardly able to move...