Word: marathoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheese sandwich costs $3.50 in Lake Placid, N.Y. But since you can't eat snow, you consume and the marathon begins. You consume Lake Placid, the village, buying the food and the buttons and the stickers and the hats and the scarves. Everything that is officially Olympic costs $5. Two very high students walk down Main Street shouting, "You're walking on an Official Olympic Sidewalk, that'll be $5 please," and everyone laughs with them, like theirs is a big in-joke. Laughter fills the streets all the time in Lake Placid...
London's Royal Shakespeare Company has returned to the Greeks in a three-night marathon cycle often plays derived from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (seven of the ten) and a dramatization by John Barton of a segment of Homer. The cycle is presented as a trilogy: "The War," "The Murders" and "The Gods." Its purpose: to show the turbulent destiny of the doomed House of Atreus in chronological order. Barton, master builder of this endeavor, likes to work on the grand scale. In previous years he was celebrated for The Wars of the Roses, a panorama adapted from Shakespeare...
...assembly will also continue to work for a library open 24 hours a day or extended beyond current closing times; a large-scale concert; and a dance marathon...
...chief authors of the nominating reforms: "The candidate isn't under the close personal scrutiny that a handful of bosses used to give him. I have to admit that the more primaries there are, the more difficult is the process." The winner of the 1976 marathon, Jimmy Carter, was not really much better known at the end of the campaign than he was at the beginning, and his stands on the issues remained murky-calculatedly...
...signal for 1,648 runners to sprint away on an 8-km race through New York City's Central Park. Not surprisingly, the leader who cut the floodlit tape in 23 min. IS sec. was Speedster Bill Rodgers, who has won his home town's Boston Marathon three times and the five-borough New York Marathon four. Said he: "If you've got 1,600 people running with you, it's a real good time...