Word: martin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indeed, Martin thinks he and Baker could have done much better, had they been healthy...
...capable of running much faster," Martin said. "Just to make All New Englands is not enough; we should both have been in the top five...
Shenk-Borig, in his first New England Championship, ran the best race of his college career, finishing 3rd for the Crimson. He kept up with Martin and Baker early in the race, but settled down to a good pace around the fourth mile...
This lovely, lilting parody, Steve Martin's "Lolita at Fifty," suggests one way to approach the menacing legend of Vladimir Nabokov's great novel. In six pages Martin deftly sketches a woman who has known and used her allure for so long--ever since she was 11 and met Humbert Humbert--that it has become her career, a real-life variation on the novel, her own definition of Loliteracy...
...DIED. MARTIN DAVIS, 72, creator of Paramount Communications; of a heart attack; in New York City. Former boss to Hollywood heavyweights Michael Eisner, Barry Diller and the late Brandon Tartikoff, the famously temper-prone executive took over the company from Gulf & Western in 1983--and doubled its stock value in his 11 years at its helm. Among his better-known takeover attempts: an ultimately unsuccessful bid to wrest Time Inc. (parent company of TIME) from Warner Communications...