Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greatest Love Letter. On Sunday morning, the couples are asked to begin "the greatest love letter of your life," a three-hour marathon of reflection and "dialogue" in which, alone in their rooms, they take an inventory of their entire relationship. When the group assembles for lunch, most men as well as women are puffy-eyed from crying. At day's end they attend a Mass, during which the husbands and wives recite their marriage vows to each other...
...moved in with a girl friend and supported herself with menial jobs. She remembers her social life at the time as an all-singing, all-dancing marathon on the Sunset Strip ("I'd go up there and dance till dawn"). When she was 16, she went out on a double date with her friend Melissa Melcher and met Melissa's boy next door-27-year-old, newly separated Sonny Bono. Not long after, he made her an offer she could not refuse: "Look, I don't find you particularly attractive and I have no designs...
...points out, CBS has paid former Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson, Authors Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Walter Lippmann and convicted Watergate Conspirator G. Gordon Liddy to "reminisce" about the past. Argues Chandler, CBS is "paying for memoirs that are the electronic equivalent of a long magazine piece-or a marathon Play boy interview...
...most alpine ski resorts, many people are now going the nordic route. For full-time competitor as well as amateur, there is a price for the solitude they find along rural trails: hard work. Few sports are so demanding. On long, thin skis, cross-country skiers are like marathon runners covering miles of rugged terrain while burdened by pounds of awkward gear...
Boston's answer to the Kentucky Derby? Perhaps the Marathon will take credit for that status, but this evening's affair at the Boston Garden does. In its own parochial manner, have all the surrounding festivity of the traditionally, renowned sports events...