Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson's girlfriend, and Short Circuit, in which she befriends a robot. Blue City received bad reviews and is sinking out of sight. Short Circuit drew mixed notices but is a box-office smash. Neither required her to stretch much beyond the pretty post-high schooler she's already played several times. Is anyone listening out there in Hollywood...
Fate had permitted Sampson to be present to perform miracles. The Rockets' star recruit of three years ago has been overshadowed by Houston's other "twin tower," Akeem Olajuwon, for most of the playoffs and much of the season. Down the stretch, Houston Coach Bill Fitch usually went to Olajuwon for the crucial baskets...
Young went 8 1-3 innings, allowing four hits, walking one, and striking out three in raising his mark to 2-0 on the season. He retired 18 straight batters at one stretch. Jay Howell got the final two outs to record his fifth save...
...earnings on mortgage payments; by 1983 the proportion had climbed to 44%. For some the sacrifice has meant forgoing additional children. Tom Cray, 36, of Rochester, and his wife Jean, 41, would like to have a second child, but they are not sure their two salaries will stretch to cover the mortgage and two children. Says Cray: "It's depressing to think human life has a price...
...Dark Knight, printed in a 45-page format on heavy paper, is intended to be a cross-over work, to break out of the adolescent market and into the big-time of popular adult fiction. It might even, in a medium stretch of the imagination, be called literature...