Word: marathoning
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...familiar sonorous voice and stately presence never seem quite right in a thriller. Yet at 68, Laurence Olivier is again swapping the stage for the cinema and co-starring with Dustin Hoffman in Paramount's forthcoming spy flick, Marathon Man. Olivier plays the part of a professional assassin and is scheduled to sprint about Manhattan next month in the filming of a chase scene. Such sprightly plans are rather extraordinary for a man who has been fighting a long battle against cancer of the prostate, thrombosis and other serious ailments. Confided Olivier optimistically to a friend last summer...
...they do. Yaz's absence didn't matter really. They would have gone through it all again, the Logan all-nighters, the marathon drives from as far as Amherst, or the 5 a.m. subway journeys, They would have repeated it all if just to see Tim Blackwell and Dick Pole return with the pennant...
...former came up from Atlanta for the meeting. During an illustrious career, he defeated both Cornell's John Anderson, who later went on to win the Boston Marathon, and Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter of Yale. About his days of running cross-country at Harvard, his sole comment was "only insane were involved...
Colburn, who ran in the Boston Marathon last year and traveled across the country from Los Angeles just to be here this week, shed a bit more light on the subject. "It was pretty boring back then," he said, "because we used to win all our meets." As for McCurdy, though, "he gets no respect, not even from his own children...
...teachers were in a fighting mood when the strike deadline approached. Finally, after a marathon negotiating session, the union broke off talks, and the strike was on. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Samuel Adams later found five union leaders in contempt of court for continuing the strike-and imposed a $25,000-a-day fine against the union for every day the schools remain closed...