Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Concerned with his team's play when nursing alead, Locker did all he could to keep up theintensity as he constantly rotated in fresh legsdown the stretch. Ultimately the strategy paid off, and Harvard outlasted the frustrated Quakers...
...Huskers extended the nation's longest major-college winning streak to 19 games and kept the Cowboys winless against them since 1961--a 35-game stretch. But Nebraska looked beatable after running for just 73 yard--240 under their average...
...film, somebody says to somebody (it doesn't matter who; they are all forgettable), "The idea of an urban legend serial killer...eh...it's a stretch." A movie about that idea is enough to snap the band...
...gosh, the man lied about having an extramarital affair. Is this not a common instinct for any guilty person? I dare anyone to show me a politician who does not stretch the truth to get elected. Since when do a man's personal affairs affect how he runs a country? Clinton is doing fine and should be left alone. Americans, you should spend your millions on education, ending poverty and researching cures for AIDS and cancer, not on feeding lawyers and tabloids. ILMAR JAAN KENTS Brantford...
...doesn't matter very much that the plot is an unlikely stretch of the imagination. It also doesn't matter much that Private Ryan, played by Matt Damon, appears too late in the film to develop as a character, thus making the story's framing device--an elder Private Ryan saluting the grave of his savior--seem a bit forced and hokey. What matters most is that the story is merely a vehicle for transporting the viewer from one spectacular, eerily realistic battle scene to another. A great part of the movie's near-three hour length consists of guns...