But, when she landed the role of Buffy Summer's closest friend, Willow Rosenberg – who grows from a timid high school girl to a powerful witch through the series – she became synonymous with one of the strong female characters that Whedon is most renowned for.
Since he dumped Lou Williams moments after his hiring in February of 2017, every move made by Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka has led to this summer's closing of those deals.
Left gasping for air, plenty of second-home owners and renters are actually relishing the thought of Labor Day's arriving and summer's coming to a close.
The lyrics take a poetic leap too — on "Strange World," Wilson looks around at "the uninvited who've lost their way" on the Santa Monica Pier, while on the closing "Summer's Gone," he pines for departed old friends and notes that "our dreams hold on / for those who still have more to say". If the entire album had been in the vein of those final tracks, it would have been a masterpiece.
This autumn, though, delays continued running at levels close to summer's records.
As a glorious summer's day drew to a close at The Country Club here, Europe held a 6-2 lead over the United States, a margin that no one, not even Mark James, the captain, could possibly have foreseen.
The NBA's Summer League games close out on Monday, July 20, and basketball stars spent one last Saturday night partying in Las Vegas.
The notion that the presidency might be settled as early as July is, on first principles, suspect.What is more, the current race is as close as a summer's afternoon on the banks of the Potomac.
Enough there, one might conclude, to satisfy the sense of balance and sporting justice a feeling of a certain fitness of things that most followers of the game are able to find at the close of each summer's long proceedings.
