Word: marathoning
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Casanova-'70 is a marathon farce about impotence and fetishism, clumsily contrived to challenge the artistry of Marcello Mastroianni, who manages to outrun his vehicle at nearly every turn. As an Italian army major rather loosely attached to NATO, Mastroianni embarks on a series of amorous bivouacs, only to find that he cannot love unless his life is gravely threatened. He hungers for the romance, adventure and intrigue of yore, and Casanova argues that modern women cannot supply...
...Angeles' Dr. George R. Bach, 51, a Latvian-born Ph.D. psychologist, has pushed the trend -both in time and numbers-about as far as it can reasonably go. He has enlarged the cast to a dozen or more "participants," and he keeps the group session going, marathon style, for 30 to 48 hours in what he calls "300-year weekends." No one is allowed to leave the room except for bathroom needs or to get food and coffee from the dining-room buffet; the only sleep consists of naps taken in a corner...
...journalism. People had forgotten the clipped, high-pitched, precisely accentuated tones of H. V. Kaltenborn, who died at 86 last week of a heart attack. In his prime in the '30s, Kaltenborn had roamed a sick Europe, producing fascinating, ominous interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, and his brilliant marathon coverage of the Munich crisis jarred American homes into a chilling awareness of the war to come...
After huddling secretly for two days, the generals called in Quat, Suu and the legislature for a marathon harangue. For three hours, under Suu's nominal chairmanship, nearly every important figure in South Viet Nam's political and military life argued, discussed, sulked, threatened and cajoled in an attempt to resolve the crisis. "If the Premier can't even name two ministers to his Cabinet," raged one of them, "he certainly can't hope to run the government." Quat could only concur. Angrily, the generals reminded the politicians of the heavy losses that their troops...
Walt Hewlett, a mercurial distance runner who has lost only one dual-meet race in his life but who sometimes collapses in big meets, will run in the sixmile. Hewlett was fifth in last fall's NCAA cross-country championship and 21st is the Boston Marathon...