Word: sighing
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...record numbers of travelers crowd into airports, the question of safety is on many minds. Just the thought of hurtling miles above the ground inside a slender aluminum tube is enough to give some people sweaty palms. Even frequent flyers often breathe a sigh of relief when their plane at last touches down...
...must have out-coached Joe Pa, if only in the area of sideline composure, Oklahoma's good-times coach was as graceful and considerate later as Shaffer. "In the '50s, coaches may have made the difference," he said, "but you don't outcoach anymore. Players win now." With a sigh not a bellow, Switzer proclaimed, "We survived Bowl Day. That gives us the national championship." As for next year, he advised pretenders, "You've got to be good, got to be lucky and got to have other people help you." Oklahoma's aid came from New Orleans, where Miami...
...essentially People Will Talk is a melancholy affair, filled with stories of early success and cumulative sorrows. Hardly a witness to the old days can speak without suppressing a sigh. Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz have been auctioned off; stars dim as predictably as sunrise; archetype runs downhill to caricature: Clark Gable is copied by Burt Reynolds who fades into Tom Selleck. Louise Brooks, who seems to have spent her retirement reading, offers the sole consolation. "Proust wrote: 'The only paradise is paradise lost.' Isn't that beautiful?" she asks Kobal. Wisely, he keeps...
...greater happiness than a kid's wish granted. Back then, my jaw dropped when the screen filled with spaceships of all varieties, battles with supreme fighters and characters I wished could be my closest relatives. As an adult, I hope the new Star Wars movie makes me sigh like a child again. Federico Fossombroni Rome The Hillary Factor Joe Klein's column "Hillary in 2008? No Way!" spelled out why it's a bad idea for Senator Clinton to run for President [May 16]. I agree with much of Klein's assessment of Hillary's possible candidacy. What the Senator...
...campus appearance by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, taking a seat in the front row of Fong Auditorium and reading loudly from an old Bible. Clad in a white evening gown, the guest turned around ominously whenever anyone asked a question. The room breathed a collective sigh when she gathered her things and left. “Who was she?” Morris asked after making sure she was out of earshot. Jesus...