Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...networks, moreover, are fond of high-profile, easily promotable episodes that can draw attention to a series. ("Next week on I Love Valerie: a crack dealer moves into the neighborhood.") Equally important, many writers and producers, tired of feeding the sitcom gag machine, are looking for ways to stretch the old formulas. Says Hugh Wilson, creator of Frank's Place: "If you play Big Band all the time, every so often you want to improvise...
...that Harvard (now 6-6-2) hasn't had a fine season. improving on last year's 3-8-4 record. But dreams are dreams. and the frustration of this past week's disappointing stretch was evident on the players' faces Saturday. Most disheartening is the team's 1-3-1 Ivy record...
...unbelievable 71.2 completion percentage, along with his 1097 yards passing and six TDs, prove he can compete with the rest of the Ivy's talented passers. In last week's victory over Lehigh, Garrett completed 25 of 31 passes for 309 yards, including nine of 10 down the stretch to set up the game-winning field goal...
...receivers with 23 catches while brother John is close behind with 19. Split end Jeff Baker is tops on the team with an 18.7 yards-per-catch average. Like Harvard, Princeton likes to pass to everyone on the field. Last week against Lehigh, Judd caught eight passes down the stretch as the Tigers rallied to win by a point...
Every so often, it seems, an aggrieved composer emerges from obscurity to lay claim to a particular pop hit. More often than not, somebody is ready to believe him -- or afraid somebody else will. The melodic and rhythmic resemblance between a four-bar stretch of Jerry Herman's 1964 classic Hello Dolly ("Hello, Dolly, well, hello Dolly. It's so . . .") and Mack David's 1948 quotidian hit Sunflower ("She's a sunflower, she's my sunflower, and I . . .") cost Herman $250,000 when he indignantly settled out of court in 1966. Ten years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked...