Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marathon meeting Tuesday, the faculty voted down a resolution whichwould have sent the case back to the Ad Board for further hearings on the grounds that the original hearings were not sufficiently open...
...Student representatives and faculty members emerged from the marathon meeting periodically to give brief summaries of the discussion...
...Marathon Meeting...
JIMMY BRESLIN has already said that this is the best movie to date about Vietnam and-while others have said the same thing about such pictures as Alice's Restaurant. The Wild Bunch, and Tell Them Willie. Boy Is Here -I think Breslin may be right. The marathon-with its dark violence, applauding spectators, POW-camp-like barracks, and lack of sane causality-may just be the best medium yet for showing the apocalyptic insanity the war has brought to this country...
...reason why the marathon works so well as a context for American sickness is the ferocity with which director Pollack has depicted it. Some shots-the faces of the tortured contestants as they run two "derby" races during the marathon, a juxtaposition of Sarrazin and a trashcan with a surreal beachscape, the reflection of Susannah York's delirious face in a shower head-knock you over with sheer force. The depression-era detail (posters for Grand Hotel and band music like "The Best Things in Life are Free") and the editing (often utilizing sound cues such as sirens and gunshots...