Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camera she has been a double agent in Marathon Man and a Palestinian terrorist in Black Sunday. Off the set, Swiss-born Marthe Keller is a homebody who has just finished furnishing a Manhattan apartment and plans to settle in New York City. "Some day I would like to play a nice American girl," she says. First, she is off to Europe, where she has the title role in the movie Lulu, yet another adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play about a German seductress compelled to destroy the lives of her lovers. "Lulu is decadent and perverse...
...reaching the unconscious rapidly," he says. "Man was meant to be a moving animal, but he's become sedentary. Distance running can bring us back to the basics of what we're here for." Lawrence has noticed that after 14 to 18 miles of a marathon, people often break down and cry, or babble to strangers about their childhood memories and problems-exactly the kind of breakthrough that conventional talk therapists look...
During the 1974 match, a 24-game marathon that Karpov won by the slimmest of margins, Korchnoi complained bitterly about Karpov's habit of staring intently at him across the board. By the end of their exhausting nine-week battle, recalled one spectator, "they were like two boxers after 15 rounds, leaning against each other, hardly able to move...
...year later, she had worked up to 50 miles a week and entered her first Boston Marathon, finishing 29th among women runners. This year, she was 12th, breaking the esteemed 3-hr, barrier with a time of 2 hr., 54 min. for the 26.2-mile marathon distance. (In all, some 200 women completed the course.) The loneliness?and the hardship?of the long-distance runner leave her unfazed: "I have more self-confidence, more energy than I had before. And when I run in the rain, I feel about six years...
...Harvard junior varisty kept the Crimson's perfect afternoon intact with a 28-second annihilation of their Yale counterparts, setting the stage for the varsity marathon that everyone had come for in the first place...