Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jungle out there. Well, not really: it's worse than a jungle. It's a stretch of roadway anywhere in America, and in place of the ravenous tigers and stampeding rhinos and slithery anacondas are your friends and neighbors and co-workers, that nice lady from the church choir and the cheerful kid who bags your food at the local Winn Dixie--even Mom and Dad and Buddy and Sis. They're in a hurry. And you're in their way. So step on it! That light is not going to get any greener! Move it or park it! Tarzan...
...BOYFRIEND Aired 2/12/92. Elaine dates Keith Hernandez, but the key moment is a spitting incident that is used to send up Oliver Stone's JFK. A bit of a stretch, but proof of the show's stunning reach...
...BETRAYAL Aired 11/20/97. Emblematic of this final season in which the show has consistently failed to hit on all cylinders. The backwards episode was clever and original, but not actually amusing. Let's hope the series rallies for its stretch...
Raimondo, the league's Player of the Week, tallied double-doubles in two of the Lions' last three games, scoring 50 points and collecting 28 rebounds, while Mboya earned a spot on the Honor Roll with 19 points and eight rebounds during the 1-2 stretch...
...enough!" Fallen veterans on the field wave fingers of "I told you so," and your own confidence slackens. Your quadriceps begin that low burning feeling and then you notice that your comrades are not so cohesive as before. You lower your head and try to power through the back-stretch. You refuse to become a sidelined sucker. You know you can run this race. But you can't. Midway through the straightaway, you hit the wall...