Word: marathoning
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...more I heard of Penny, the more often I watched him deal with marathon phone calls; I began to share in his hypnosis. No longer was I just a listener, as Nick plunged deeper into some sort of blessed state. A fool possessed, perhaps, but I was getting caught in the undertow...
Greatest Love Letter. On Sunday morning, the couples are asked to begin "the greatest love letter of your life," a three-hour marathon of reflection and "dialogue" in which, alone in their rooms, they take an inventory of their entire relationship. When the group assembles for lunch, most men as well as women are puffy-eyed from crying. At day's end they attend a Mass, during which the husbands and wives recite their marriage vows to each other...
...weeks he has met the Presidents of the U.S. and France and traded horse chat with the Queen of England. Though he goes through the motions genially, the promo marathon for his new film Funny Lady is not Caan's idea of athletics. He was therefore relieved to get away for a day at New York's Aqueduct race track to check up with the trainer of his five horses there and get his colors registered. Jimmy, a veteran rodeo rider, has decided that his brand, a rocking JC, will be stamped on silks of emerald and white...
...moved in with a girl friend and supported herself with menial jobs. She remembers her social life at the time as an all-singing, all-dancing marathon on the Sunset Strip ("I'd go up there and dance till dawn"). When she was 16, she went out on a double date with her friend Melissa Melcher and met Melissa's boy next door-27-year-old, newly separated Sonny Bono. Not long after, he made her an offer she could not refuse: "Look, I don't find you particularly attractive and I have no designs...
...points out, CBS has paid former Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson, Authors Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Walter Lippmann and convicted Watergate Conspirator G. Gordon Liddy to "reminisce" about the past. Argues Chandler, CBS is "paying for memoirs that are the electronic equivalent of a long magazine piece-or a marathon Play boy interview...