Aaron Garretson scrawls a string of hoped-for encomiums — "author of countless," "survived by adoring" — beneath a doleful self-portrait.
When Jason, 15, was ordered to the Oakley Training School in March after a string of burglaries, he hoped to get treatment for his bipolar disorder, which relatives say arose from sexual abuse he suffered at age 3.
A string of dashed hopes over deals with South Korea, Morocco and most recently Brazil have confounded French leaders, despite last year's military intervention in Libya having acted as a showcase for the Rafale.
Ms. Phillips actually opens "James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" with a string of exotic vignettes, hoping to hint at the rampant eccentricity of her highly changeable subject.
When winter sports show The Jump earned its moniker of the most dangerous programme on television after a string of celebrity accidents, Monkey hoped the bad luck dogging the programme's producers Two Four would not transfer to their new ITV car show Drive.
"They referred to the book, or to the author's voice; and they tended to pick out a string of scenes and hope that something inherent in the story would hold it all together.
Like much of life, the house-hunting process turned out to be a string of butterfly-high hopes followed by canyons of disappointment.
But the reasoning for the decision by the appeal committee will be seen as an embarrassment at a time when Fifa is trying to implement a string of reforms that it hopes will maintain its victim status in the eyes of the US Department of Justice and the Swiss Attorney General.
Summing up its appeal, Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times called it "lively, warm, fresh and beautiful," as sunny a string of adjectives as you could hope to find.
Then we flash back to Los Angeles five years and four months earlier, with the arrival of young, innocent and ambitious Marla Mabrey Collinss), the latest of a string of Hughes contract players to hope to succeed in Hollywood.
They've largely stayed quiet, amid a string of controversies like this one, hoping to exploit yoga's commercial success, even if Lululemon's commitment to yoga as an authentic "wellness" practice -- in fact, even much of the pricey apparel it sells has no actual relation to yoga -- remains dubious at best.
