Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine minutes followig Jaquette's ejection. Harvard scored 10 unanswered goals MIT failed to score again until the last minute of the third quarter, a seven-minute stretch Pike called "probably our best period of water polo of the year...
...commission on Social Security reform, with a safe post-election deadline of Dec. 31 for announcing its recommendations. When he insisted further that Congress reconvene for a lameduck session that starts Nov. 29, his thinly veiled intention was to push through benefit reductions during the only politically neutral stretch on the congressional calendar in the next two years. With hardly three weeks in the special session, neither party is eager to tackle anything more daring than renewing Social Security's capacity to borrow from its disability insurance and Medicare funds. Even with that authority extended, Social Security is predicted...
Yesterday, though, the sinewy blonde couldn't hang onto her customary lead Also passing her in the final stretch was Princeton senior Lynn Jennings, who finished barely one second behind Wiley: Stricker came in seven seconds later with a time...
...WHEN YOU SHOOT in elephant, he sometimes stays 10 days on his feet before topping over," a character declures near the begining of Fitzearruldo. With this hit of incident dealogue, the German director Wener Herzog has hit open a sadly apt metaphor forhis new film. Over a 21/2 hour stretch of celluloid, Fitzearruldo lurches and becomes like some Teatonic pachyderm. Drunk on its own significance it dies at our feet collasping under its own weight...
...something other than work in a factory. But if that's all you know how to do, that's what you do" and "Jobs are not big enough for people" without sounding like Soc Stud burnouts. Or, for that matter, that the full-stage production numbers wouldn't stretch out thin, would stay in step and in tune. A play with the same book bombed on Broadway and it's not difficult to see how a light coating of razzle-dazzle, a touch of crowd-pleasing superficiality, could pervert Working and obscure its message. But that's not what...