One of them tries to charm me by touching me with a talisman, a snake head.
By Fonda's time it was beginning to take on neurotic undertones, but was still a talisman of intelligence and seriousness.
Publishers wave it around like a talisman that has the magic power to make falling ad revenues and shrinking subscriber rolls irrelevant.
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Slap a Rat Fink decal on your lunch box and suddenly you had a talisman that could repulse teachers, adults and other bores.
It is a talisman that magically moves people who have nothing else in common to blissfully share the most popular sport in America.
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If they did find him guilty on all counts, would that be a talisman that repaired the damage to the game of baseball?
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Fiorina insists the troops will heed her message, but from HP's past she has borrowed a talisman against an uncertain future: Bill and Dave's garage, where invention began.
Ye olde parchment serves as shorthand for everything old, real, durable, American, and true a talisman held up against the uncertainties and abstractions of a meaningless, changeable, paperless age.
That seems a long way from sleeping under a bridge, and I get a sense that the Sartre book is a kind of talisman: a pledge to himself that it will happen.
If he's come out alive he owes it to the photograph of a pretty girl he picks up in the rubble one day -- a snapshot that seems like a lucky talisman, protecting him while so many of his comrades fall.
Late last year, a diverse coalition of activists launched a campaign against Talisman Energy of Canada, which is involved in a joint-venture oil exploration project in Sudan.
If this is a good-luck talisman, then Mr Scharping needs it now more than ever.
In 2003 a Canadian firm, Talisman, was forced out by pressure from campaigners.
Other westerners also hold back, fearing the bad publicity that forced Talisman, a Canadian oil firm, to quit a few years ago.
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The England talisman hit a blistering 90-ball hundred before he sacrificed himself.
But those raising a glass to Irish rugby's talisman for the last decade may also have a sobering thought nagging away at them.
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Under Hal Kvisle, who started as chief executive in September, Talisman is taking a more conservative financial approach and will focus on three core areas - the Americas, South East Asia and the North Sea.
Rarely have a club and a player been so utterly synonymous, and Wasps know they have to embark on a new era without their talisman and former captain after his retirement at the end of last season.
The Wales fly-half has become the club's talisman and to lose a player of his calibre would be a blow.
Talisman said it hired a 120-person vessel to mobilise personnel offshore "to supplement the limited helicopter flights available at present".
Dave Mann, a spokesman for Calgary- based Talisman, said the firm is confident it has not violated any SEC disclosure rules.
In the interim, the government had included the area in an oil and gas concession now held by a consortium involving Canada's Talisman Energy, Brazil's Petrobras and Spain's Repsol.
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Second, a divestment campaign promoted by Ms. Shea and other activists has resulted in a huge sell-off of Talisman shares by four of the Nation's leading investment funds -- TIAA-CREF, the California and New Jersey public employees' pension funds and of Texas teachers.
Talisman Energy UK has sent a vessel to collect 87 workers and deliver relief staff to replace them.
France's 10 men held out for a 1-1 draw but without their talisman the fates had swung decisively against them.
Talisman Ryan Giggs was not even a substitute and United missed his inspiration as they toiled against a Sunderland team who defended heroically and broke purposefully from the back.
Under pressure, the Canadian government sent a mission to investigate conditions in Sudan, and Talisman's shares promptly fell by 15%.
Talisman, based in Canada, is creating a joint venture with Sinopec, also known as the Chinese Petrochemicals Corporation.
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Talisman claims to have convinced the government to set up a fund to help war-ravaged areas, an idea the government claims as its own.
The current dominant players, such as Chesapeake, Range Resources, Talisman Energy, and Cabot Oil and Gas have locked up a good deal of the acreage, but they may be joined by others.
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