Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenge is finding new things that work. Franklin estimates that ILM takes on only about one-third of the movies it is offered and looks for "projects that we think will stretch us and offer something new." Technicians are generally assigned to teams that remain with a film for its duration, thus fostering a sense of creative involvement in the project. "The value of this place is in its people," says Franklin, "not in its hardware...
From Amy, 200,000 New Yorkers, nine deep in some places, wound up Manhattan's West Side and over the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey. A 50-yd. stretch near Newark threatened to be the first gap, but at the last minute people in line stopped a commuter bus; the 40-plus passengers all cheerfully piled out to fill the hole. The first breaks developed in Pennsylvania, but the line wound south to Washington, where it was routed through the White House. Persuaded at the last minute by his daughter Maureen to take part, President Reagan stood somewhat stiffly...
...those upperclassmen was Co-Captain Genie Simmons, who emerged as a goal-scoring threat at second-line center while providing the leadership-by-example down the stretch that the youthful Crimson so desperately needed...
...latest, though certainly not the last, of the recent charity "megathons." Holding hands in a human chain that, in theory at least, was supposed to stretch from coast to coast, an eclectic, Fellini-like crowd was expected to sing America the Beautiful (key lyric: "From sea to shining sea") at 3 p.m. EDT, as well as the trendier anthems We Are the World and Hands Across America...
...ripper. The reverse is just as emphatically true for most of the young American actresses. Try seeing Laura Dern's superior performance as a hormone-fogged California adolescent in Smooth Talk, for instance, and then envision her in a Victorian corset and long skirt. Fuses blow; imagination does not stretch that far. Dern, for starters, has too much Pacific Ocean salt in her blond hair, and her lanky good looks are too much a matter of knees and shoulders and elbows. She looks as if she should be playing power forward on the UCLA women's basketball team. That...