Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basically just something that was offered to us, and we thought it would be fun. It was a real stretch for us to play, in that style; we just did it for fun, basically...
...games away from elimination, Passarella and Clark continued to prey on the serve of Aaron Marchetti--the Crimson broke his serve five straight games in one stretch--to go up 6-5 and held to take the set by a 7-5 margin...
...decades, sitcoms have consisted of a few people standing on a fake-looking set barking jokes at each other. On Sports Night, the camera moves; people move. Like all sitcoms, it is shot before an audience, but with its sets and editing, it manages to stretch the genre's visual limitations. Forgoing the march-time comic pace of the typical sitcom, the show's dialogue includes a mix of throwaway lines, banter, long speeches and TV-techno talk, which provide a particular touch of ER-like authenticity...
Like many young parents, John and Janine Morreale were willing to stretch their finances to get their child, three-year-old Johnny, into preschool. Both worked full time--John in maintenance, Janine as a teacher--but their joint income was not enough to foot the $6,000 bill, equal to the yearly rent of their apartment. "We were living paycheck to paycheck, and we even had to start borrowing from my mother-in-law," recalls Janine. "It just didn't make any sense...
...Speedos, women unfurling on the concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water is where the eternal elements meet the here and now. When he rides an elevated subway car, he sees a cramped rectangle that's a public square, where people sign the air every time they stretch. And in the simplest black churches he recognizes that rapture is democratic, that a scuffed room is sanctified by the supreme projection of human needs in God's general direction. What he's saying is that the city is a place requiring courage and cunning. And that it's graceland...