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...described the play, you might get the impression that her glove miraculously opened and moved at lightning speed of its own volition, and catching the puck was sheer coincidence or accident, not something she had control over...
This is balanced by McAuliffe’s style and personality. The epitome of hard work leading to success, McAuliffe has staked her claim as one of Harvard’s premier players by honing her skills through sheer grit and determination...
...fact, when one thinks about it, everything’s been sort of leading up to this, hasn’t it? The injury in Alaska. The two years learning in a platoon environment. The flashes of offensive brilliance. Even the sheer pleasure derived from the art of catching. It’s all coming together now to set the stage...
...large “package” he must carry. There are a number of moments where laughter is motivated not so much by actual amusement as by the shock of disbelief, as none of the jokes are particularly outstanding. Yet this production is incessantly likeable, propelled by the sheer enthusiasm of the cast. The entire enterprise is so cheerfully bizarre and unrepentently unsophisticated—the eponymous frogs, hopping to dreamily surreal live guitar (courtesy of the Makoto Concern), wear goggles, green tank tops and foam froggy headbands—you can’t help laughing at even...
...train blasts also differed from the Basque group's traditional modus operandi in important ways: the absence of warning, which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape...