Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...place that rescued Anita and her kids that day was the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, which opened in 1983 as a haven where parents on the edge could leave their children for as many as three days at a stretch, at no charge. From the start, it had a full house almost every night. And so they opened another one last February, just north of the city. It too has a full house almost every night. The calls come in 24 hours a day, more than 4,000 altogether last year...
...death row, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), is given a new perspective on life, fittingly, by a man sentenced to death--a larger-than-life inmate named John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan). Convicted for the unthinkable murder of two little girls, Coffey is placed on the Green Mile, the stretch of walkway that brings death row prisoners from their cells to the electric chair (usually called the last mile, but this particular one has green floor tiles). The unique bond that evolves between the sympathetic Edgecomb and the unexpectedly gentle Coffey forms the basis for the psychological, spiritual and moral exploration...
...combination presumably because both are "short" works about the life of college students over the course of their senior years. Each play is in fact short, in that neither merits its own intermission; however, including the break between the plays, the production is four hours long. During the last stretch between ten and eleven there is definitely a sense of restlessness throughout the theatre, which unfortunately has as much to do with the production of Moonchildren as the inevitable urge to move...
...stretch of overpass in the invisible industrial outlands, unmarked, the Brickbottom Gallery is in a most unlikely location. But, in a building where more than 150 artists live and work, the gallery is self-sufficient, needing no urban foot-traffic. The exhibition space shows artists both resident and alien, often in a salon format...
Harvard's recent string of poor performances, and weakness down the stretch in games, underscores the inherent danger in relying on a couple of players to win night in and night...