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Santiago, who struggled in the Crimson's first two games, hit stride against the Tribe Saturday, with a 98-yd. outing. The San Antonio, Tex. native scored on a 78-yd. scamper on the game's second play against the Big Red a year ago and finished up the contest with 168 yards, his second best effort ever...
...Harvard freshman cross country runner ran in the top spot for her first three years in high school but took it in stride when another runner took her place her senior year...
...thought her voice would ring out in the crowd. It cuts through everything." In the film's opening scene, Lennox incites a mob to take a ship for the American cause from its owner, played by Al Pacino. Lennox took the demands of making her first movie in stride, including repeated dousings with buckets of water for a rainy scene. The rocker was also asked to cover her close-cropped coif with a long red wig. "It went with a fiery personality," explains Winkler. Right now Lennox is drying out her pipes in preparation for a new album...
...took a few episodes for Miami Vice to hit its stride. The earliest segments were sprinkled with predictable character exposition and comic relief. Crockett, for instance, was an ex-college football star with a wife suing him for divorce and a "funny" pet alligator named Elvis. Two mid- season changes were crucial. The alligator, along with most of the comic relief, was dropped. And a riveting new character, the brooding Lieut. Castillo (played with remarkable power by Emmy Nominee Edward James Olmos), joined the show. Castillo, Tubbs and Crockett bear less resemblance to other cop-show protagonists than to classic...
Sometimes the ads are quirkily self-conscious. "Ahem," began one suitor in the New York Review of Books. "Decent, soft-spoken sort, sanely silly, philosophish, seeks similar." Then he started to hit his stride: "Central Jersey DM WASP professional, 38, 6 ft.2", slow hands, student of movies and Marx, gnosis and news, craves womanish companionship...