Word: marathoning
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...uncertain effect. Rouben Ter-Arutunian has tastefully re-created Picasso's costumes and his imposing backdrop-a blue-gray cubist evocation of a moonlit street in 18th century Naples. The vital young Jeffrey dancers, moreover, prance through the one-act ballet as if caught up in a marathon tarantella. But breathing life into this Pulcinella is rather like trying to revive a dead tree by gluing fallen leaves back onto its limbs...
...depending upon when you receive this paper, you have a certain amount of time left to skip Greek 2740b this morning and hunker down in the plush, cavernous seats of the Music Hall in Boston for a few hours. You won't have to deal with anything. The marathon started at midnight last night, 10 films, the last six of which are From Here To Eternity, On The Waterfront, Bridge Over The River Kwai, Dr. Strangelove, Funny Girl, and The Professionals...
...Star has published accounts of police abuses and corruption: flagrant examples of bribery, theft, extortion and protecting prostitutes. Though the exposé series caused a shake-up of police leadership, Marion County Prosecutor Noble Pearcy has obtained indictments of only five cops. But next week the Star's marathon sleuthing will produce a chilling and unexpected result: two of the paper's investigative reporters are to be arraigned on charges of conspiring to bribe a police lieutenant...
...strike went on for almost two more months, finally ending on July 25 after a series of marathon negotiations and shifting wage offers on both sides. At Commencement time, the University was offering a two-year contract to the printers, with pay hikes of 5.9 per cent in the first year and slightly more in the second, while the printers wanted a one-year pact with 10-to-14-per-cent raises...
...last few weeks Pipkin has been getting the feel of University Hall, trying to meet everyone who works there and attending the marathon administrative meetings that come just before the beginning of every school year. It's likely that during Pipkin's first year as dean he will rely heavily on the help and advice of Charles P. Whitlock, dean of the College and a 26-year veteran of the Harvard administration, on administrative matters...