Word: marathoning
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...Yale. Those who believed last summer that Segal's star had finally been eclipsed were once again proved wrong when Segal's smiling face suddenly turned up behind an ABC microphone in Munich, Germany. Segal had traveled to Munich to give millions of Americans color commentary on the Olympic Marathon...
...dance marathon staged by New York's City Center? Was that doughty cultural impresario succumbing to the nostalgia craze reviving the 1920s stunts in which competing couples danced away the night-and the day, and sometimes the night again? Not quite. The City Center American Dance Marathon '72, which ended last week at Manhattan's ANTA Theater, was devoted more to the delights of diversity than to endurance. Over a period of six weeks, 20 of the most ruggedly individual dance companies in the U.S. matched style and idea in stalwart succession...
...successes, the City Center hoped to give the companies a kind of exposure and impact that otherwise would be beyond their reach. Alas, ticket sales were disappointing, and the City Center (which tried a similar venture on a smaller scale two years ago) has no immediate plans for another marathon. All the more reason to cheer the companies that most enlivened this one. Items...
...Inmost Heaven featured a quartet of beauties who appeared topless to the accompaniment of a quintet of brass. Although Hawkins deployed the girls with such ritualistic restraint that the effect was almost asexual, the work succeeded in one kind of choreography that few other companies in the marathon have mastered: the concerted movement of large numbers of people past the box office and into the auditorium...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, after a marathon six hours of deliberations, found Ellen J. Messing '72-4 guilty last night of charges brought against her by the Administration for her participation in a sit-in at Littauer Center...