Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts of Crimson captain Nancy Cooper typified Harvard's struggles throughout the meet. Five minutes into her final bout, a marathon struggle against Wellesley's Aimee Christian, teammate Debbie Sze shouted to Cooper from the sideline, "Fence your own game." Cooper revealed later that all she could think of when she heard Sze's encouragement was "I don't remember what my game...
Coma would be negligible, except that it epitomizes everything wrong with most movie thrillers these days: they have become clinical. Directors like Michael Crichton and William Friedkin put their audiences under the scalpel, and so far audiences have responded enthusiastically. Even good movies like Marathon Man are so crammed with sliced hands and slit throats that they're hard to watch, and films have to be gorier and gorier now to make an impression. It's part of a de-sensitizing, or perhaps, in the case of Coma, an anesthetizing of the audience. No wonder audiences are bored with those...
Life was not so easy for Sanchez as he survived two marathon matches to advance to the finals. On Sunday morning, he defeated top seed and defending champion Tom Page, 8-15, 15-14, 15-12, 10-15, and 15-11. That same afternoon he bested the fourth seed Jay Nelson in another donnybrook...
...have been stranded out at Logan waiting for a cab that will take them to the Music Hall. I placed a call there (put?) yesterday afternoon, and the impressario on duty assured me that as soon as the groups are allowed into the beleaguered city, they will stage a marathon, 48-hour "Easy Listening" festival which will be broadcast simultaneously over every station in Boston...
Lord Laurence Olivier in William Goldman's "The Marathon...