1.   Potentially explosive subtext -- Annie was sexually abused as a child -- is pretty much left in the background.

2.   An adorable kid befriends Leopold, then pretty much disappears.

3.   A loss tonight would move the Magic from intensive care to life support and pretty much put an end to their eventful season.

4.   Actually the rider up front, the captain in tandem-speak, pretty much controls everything.

5.   After the eggs hatch, shoals of larvae begin an epic swim inshore, undoubtedly falling prey along the way to pretty much anything with a mouth.

6.   After three failed years of eligibility, Joiner had pretty much given up hope when the call came in January.

7.   Brosen said that he has done pretty much everything he has wanted in life and this is one enjoyment he plans to continue for as long as he can.

8.   But other than a few poor saps, most of them foreigners like our reporter friend, pretty much no one is doing that.

9.   He called the U.S. a bully and pretty much blamed the Yugoslav war on America.

10.   He has a deal with The New Yorker to write occasional pieces on pretty much whatever he wants.