Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defrocked diplomat's attempt to prove himself innocent of accusations of treason, an ex-President's struggle to uphold his fading reputation, an exiled party girl's scheme to re-enter her native England, a down-and-out reporter's comeback attempt. By a stretch of imagination no greater than Wallace's, Dwight Eisenhower, Christine Keeler, Alger Hiss and the entire journalistic profession could conceivably sue. But why should they? Nobody could accuse Plot's characters of resembling real people...
...strength left for an impressive duel in the stretch with Proud Clarion, and observers said later that if top jockey Bill Hartack, who wanted the mount, had been on Barbs Delight, it might have gone the other way. Hartack will have the horse, and one-sixteenth of a mile less to go, in the Preakness...
...miraculous whole. Plebeians is not an instructive play in the ordinary sense. It is no lecture, but achieves its purpose by employing the audience as an equal partner, rising and falling with the central character, by making the stage what it is -- a stage -- and by having its cast stretch out, physically as well as metaphorically, into the audience. The blocking, which capitalizes on what are usually limitations in Agassiz Theatre, combines realism with esthetic pleasure, and modulates in perfect coordination with the play. Mayer's fight scene, for example, achieves its power by hurtling all the actors into...
...strongest challenges are expected to come from two stretch running colts, Ruken and Successor...
...next four holes were ruin. He missed a three-footer to bogey the second, lost a ball in the woods for a triple-bogey seven at the third, and then bogeyed the next two. The rest were routine pars, but that six-over-par stretch wrecked what could have been an excellent round...