Word: marathons
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...third best performance of the year. The occasion is a lunch at New York City's Oak Room at which 100 or so invited guests have gathered to honor her performance in Stephen Daldry's The Reader. This particular publicity event, orchestrated in the 26th mile of the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it's designed to entice any wavering voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It's also intended to defuse complaints that the movie's treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host...
Plenty of my countrymen do. Through necessity, I was entering a club more viewers are joining by choice: the posttelevision society. Some download TV to avoid ads. Some Netflix series so they can watch them in one big marathon. Some like the convenience, some the portability. Some are cutting their cable or satellite bills to save money in hard times. Millions of others use online video as a backup--Huluing dramas they missed live, watching March Madness on CBSSports.com or Wimbledon on ESPN360. (Preferably at work...
...Junior Katherine O’Donnell had a 2-1 edge over the Bulldogs’ Alia Aziz and was on the cusp of closing out a 9-0 undefeated season. However, she was unable to put her talented opponent away, dropping the fourth game 4-9 and a marathon fifth 7-9.A 3-2 victory by No. 4 sophomore Bethan Williams was offset by a 3-2 defeat at No. 7 with sophomore Alexandra Zindman falling 8-10, 9-6, 7-9, 10-8, 9-2, to Tara Wadhwa of Yale. Playing three spots above her customary...
...Schaus shined in BC’s 2007 marathon win, making an NCAA-record 73 saves...
...Back then, Harvard was simply no match for BC’s then-freshman goaltender Molly Schaus, who made an NCAA-record 73 saves in the marathon game...