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...gesture. The smells of the food, the way people sit on the stoop, the looks on the faces of the old people as they tell stories, the eccentricities of the way they dress," White said. "But you smell that smell, hear that silence, it speaks of death and doom...
...ability to recover from their hits and keep on charging down the field. He spends a lot of time stoically awaiting "The Turk," the assistant coach who visits the players training camp rooms to summon them to the head coach's office for their dismissal. Happily, for him, doom does not come a-knocking at his door. As the movie would have it, Vermeil resists everyone's advice and opts for Papale's spirit over the perhaps greater skills of another player, and Vince makes the team, hanging on to the lower edges of the roster for three seasons...
...Mass., grabs the wireless microphone in front of a crowd of more than 500 parents, students and college counselors and happily shatters conventional wisdom. "Every spring and every fall, this is what you will see and hear in the media: 'No one gets in anywhere,'" she says. "Gloom and doom. Well, we're here to tell you that people get in everywhere!" She polls the crowd: What percentage of kids do you think get into their first-choice school? One guess is 5%; another is 20%. Furtado beams and announces slowly, so as not to let the Good Word slip...
...have to make it easy. I'm hoping the takeaway on the site is this positive "Wow, I've seen this green that is here now and I can change my life in a green direction, whether it's transportation, fashion, housing, etc." A lot of environmentalism has been doom and gloom, negative, inspired by fear. We are trying to be positive: 80% of of the stuff we feature are solutions and good news. I try to make it really inspiring so a lot of people come away hopeful...
...Eric's quotes are contained in pages of school essays and other writings that were confiscated from his home and car. Often, his enhanced sense of grandiosity is unmistakable. "It'll be like the L.A. riots, the Oklahoma bombing, WWII, Vietnam, Duke and Doom all mixed together. I want to leave a lasting impression on the world...