Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a week of teas and tours, bashes and branches the freshman class next week enters the home stretch of the House lottery process, a ritual which has meant hysteria for some, but only mild anxiety for others...
...beginning, we just played games, like snake, cool cat and fox," said 10-year-old Jessica from the Agassiz School. "We learned to wriggle like a snake, stretch like a cool cat, and jump like a fox. In the show, me and my friends do ballet barrels. We pretend we're barrels and puff up our cheeks and stuff like that...
Lynch's off-the-wall proposition and Bob Clark's direction are not entirely dissimilar. Both suffer from a glaring lack of sensitivity: Lynch to his eramorata and Clark to his audience. Clark ruins a potentially funny--if somewhat contrived--storyline by attempting to stretch one joke over 45 minutes of air time...
...devastating comeback. It took eleven years more--and Star Wars--before movie audiences were allowed to hear and see what Ford could do, but since then, he has shown over and over again that he has not only got it, but got it big enough to draw lines that stretch around the block and into the next galaxy...
...Ford's best roles yet, allowing him greater scope than Han Solo in Star Wars or Indiana Jones or the hot rodder he portrayed in American Grafitti or the chilling Army officer in Apocalypse Now. But he is right when he says that John Book is not a stretch from his other characters: it is an extension. Some people, he complains, say, " 'Well, Witness is really acting. It's great you're getting a chance to play a real person.' " In fact, he says, with some asperity, "my ambition was to play real people in Star Wars and Raiders. Doing...