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...five for us, our intent was to really try to get the inside game from them,” Sullivan said. “So you had to find some way to bring them inside the line either with our closeouts and our footwork, but also you kind of tempt them with the inside play. There were times when we were really playing the post players a little bit softer...
...question with Die Another Day is not whether it will be a hit but how big? Predict Bond's demise at your own risk. How many of his critics has he outlived already? In Dr. No, the fisherman Quarrel warns, "It don't do for a man to tempt Providence too often." Always a gambler, 007 seems to have taken those words as a dare. And 40 years later, it's safe to say we have a response: It don't do for a man to bet against Bond. --With reporting by Theunis Bates/London and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...nagging mothers will do, my mom came up with a catchphrase my senior year in high school to tempt me to apply to and attend the school of her choice. Her slogan was surprisingly short and catchy: “They have more fun at Yale...
...have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style. A classic example appears in the latest "Complete Crumb." "Footsy," rendered in a dramatic chiaroscuro, tells of his teenage encounters with the feet of various "lusty creatures" at school. For the new story, "Don't Tempt Fate," Crumb has abandoned the rich blacks that characterized this part of his career in favor of a crosshatching technique that captures every ripple of flesh and clothing. "Fate" tells the story of how a playmate accidentally smashed Crumb's mouth, leaving him with an absurd, gap-toothed grin...
...Although the Arab peace plan was never going to tempt Sharon - the Arab consensus is that peace won't be possible while he remains Prime Minister, an inversion of the widely held Israeli belief about Arafat - it does restate the question of Israel's long-term intentions for the West Bank and Gaza...