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...autumn equivalent of the Marathon, hearty exercise before dining at Locke-Ober's, an imitation of the olden Argonauts: call it what you will, the Head remains one of the most panoramic events in the country...
Tracking Shot #1--A checker Marathon rolls down the Mass Pike Extension toward the Brattle. In it is the pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater. Most of the traffic is headed toward Boston. At the toll the pedestrian in the sweater hands a quarter to a toll collector who barely acknowledges...
Karpov beat Korchnoi six games to five in their 93-day 1978 marathon, but not before they exchanged charges about the use of "evil eyes," illegal signals with yogurt cartons, and microphones hidden in chairs. This second championship Karpov-Korchnoi meeting-"K-2" to insiders-is well on the way to becoming as byzantine and acrimonious as the first. The stakes this time: $260,000 and world bragging rights for the winner, $160,000 and humiliation for the loser...
Three times a week, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, both parts will run in one day. Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, hopes audiences will try to attend the all-day marathon, "participating with the actors in a survival experience." It might seem like an endurance test to devote an entire day to a single show; but then, this show is all about survival and transcendence. Behind its overt stage action is the unlikely but compelling story of how a struggling theater company found its soul and its success with the same desperate gamble ?risking everything...
...first set against Sheehan, 6-4, but then faltered in the next two, 3-6, 4-6. The freshman's style of play, an aggressive serve-and-volley game, worked against her Saturday as Sheehan used consistent baseline play to wear out her rival over the course of the marathon match...