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...know what happened next, and God knows it has been well-documented. Grady Little decided to go against all of the statistics and good logic and stuck with the tired Pedro Martinez and wasted a heroic performance from his ace through seven innings by putting him back out there for the eighth...
...size of the figures. I initially started out drawing Riel with a big head and a smaller body then by the end of the book I was drawing him with a big body and a small head with massive hands. That's very much the way Gray drew his heroic figures. That's what the basic size of Daddy Warbucks was. That was why I had to re-draw the early scenes [for the collection] to make the Riel at the end of the book match the one at the beginning...
...Unlike Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the supreme spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites, Moqtada has only minor clerical status. But he has political muscle and influence derived from the heroic reputation of his forebears. Also unlike Sistani, Moqtada is a fervent advocate of the Khomeinist doctrine of "velayat al-faqi," or political rule by the clergy. His objective: to make himself the primary player in Iraqi politics...
...couches, brilliantly. He radiates not the danger of the modern movie star but the domestic familiarity of the modern television star. He banters, puts himself down and plays along with all the Gigli jokes. That blithe masochism is career smart, of course, but it also suggests a species of heroic ordinariness that Affleck rarely shows in his movie roles. He may be squirming on the inside, but in public he's Ben Affable...
...Students and faculty] are doing heroic work every day to try and carry on an education, much less anything else,” Womack said...