On MSNBC, Ghazala Khan had talked about how it was still hard for her to "come into a room where his pictures are," let alone an arena where her son's image was projected onto a giant screen, which is why she had let her husband speak there.
So kick back, close your eyes, and enjoy the brief sensation that even one person cares about your opinion, let alone an arena of devoted fans.
I had no idea they were still together, let alone an arena-sized act throughout the world, when I met the future Mrs. Sachs in 2003.
Now he was alone in the arena.
Gomez walked out of the arena alone without any apparent unsteadiness.
Walter Carbone, 54, from Boston, arrived at the arena alone, even though his daughter had agreed at first to accompany him.
At one o'clock the next morning — the morning of the day before the opening — Knievel was momentarily alone in the arena of Madison Square Garden.
If Bill Clinton's backstage walk to valediction on Monday was a heavyweight champion's last indulgent moment in the sun, Al Gore's arrival in the Staples Center tonight was a dogged contender's first chance to enter the arena alone.
The man in the arena, alone in his vulnerability, who reacts bravely and intelligently to a particular set of circumstances and then becomes proactive in finding a way to bend them to his will, is the man who achieves the ultimate.
While Obama prefers to preen as the man alone in the arena — keeping other pols at a distance on stage, parsimoniously handing out thanks and failing to mention his party or top surrogate Bill Clinton in his last victory speech — RGIII never passes up a chance to share credit.
