"It's been a leap of faith, " says the intense Jannard, garbed in blue jeans and a black T shirt.

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"We still have to make the right product to make a profit, "says Baldwin, garbed in a standard Hollywood-issue black turtleneck.

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Just regular, mortal you against a brightly-garbed warrior who has super-strength, can fly, is faster than a speeding bullet, and has only one weakness.

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Black-garbed Serb pensioners can shop in the market in the Albanian-dominated town of Gnjilane without the American armoured vehicles which have hitherto been needed to protect them.

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The rest were those garbed in the black and red of Toulon - magnificently noisy and energetic before and during the match, then magnanimous and sociable in defeat.

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What frightens Razieh, for example, who is fully garbed in the chador, is that her husband, an unemployed hothead by the name of Hodjat (Shahab Hosseini), will discover what kind of job she has taken, and her fear is well founded.

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There are times when that lock becomes too tight and grating to bear, as when a blond figure, garbed in ice-blue, crawls through a room on all fours, while another woman shovels earth onto her, in a doomed but determined bid to bury her alive.

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