Word: marathoning
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Rock lovers will have to warm themselves this chilly weekend with memories of last weekend's Dead marathon. Folk and jazz freaks will do better...
...impossible, however, to leave Conrad Rooks's filmed Siddhartha without gingerly reaching for one's wallet to make sure it's still there. This unspeakable insult to the cinema and to the India it depicts has all the imaginative variety of a Hare Krishna marathon in Harvard Square, and the P.T. Barnum mentality lately put to profitable use by a noted fifteen-year old mob leader who drives a Rolls-Royce. Never has the search for eternal cosmic wisdom been so short (an hour and a half), seemed so long (an eternity), and revealed so little...
...experts want us to believe that the problem is purely a technological one, and that it can be solved by the experts in purely technological ways. But the people, tired and tuckered out, know better; they cannot help but know better. When you run a marathon race all day long you get tired out; there is no way around it. You could try to push yourself and discipline your mind to ignore the fatigue, but when there's no pot of gold at the finish line or even no finish line in sight, what sense is there in struggling...
Despite personal intimidation--rocks through windows of School Committeemen's homes, obscene 4 a.m. phone calls, both threatened and real physical violence O children of "reform" organizers and public intimidation trumped-up legal battles and marathon live TV coverage of the circus-like hearing preliminary to the vote to resume the search for a new superintendent--the majority persevered and finally brought Alflorence Cheatham to Cambridge...
Died. Abebe Bikila, 40, supple Ethiopian who became the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal when he won the marathon in his bare feet in Rome in 1960 and the only athlete to win the event twice in a row with his victory in Tokyo in 1964; of a brain hemorrhage; in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian national hero and member of Emperor Haile Selassie's elite Imperial Guard, Bikila missed the hat trick in Mexico City in 1968 because of a strained ankle. He was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an auto...