91.   His vehicle for this attempted personality transplant is a book tour promoting his new memoir, which reads like the sanitized confessional of a mellow elder statesman.

92.   His life reads like a storybook.

93.   How she came to realize her dream reads like a case study for a small cosmetics concern.

94.   His account of that company reads like something reconstructed from old newspaper clips.

95.   His five-year record as prime minister does not read like a profile in courage.

96.   His life story, in which the gaps and omissions far outnumber the known facts, reads like a tale about a family man who was short on luck.

97.   His narrative about working just enough to get drunk and maintain a modicum of dignity reads like a Steinbeck novel.

98.   His numbers read like some sort of basketball science fiction.

99.   His story is so strange, it reads like a fairy tale.

100.   I might have appeared irascible as journalists scribbled madly, looking for the sound bite that read like revelation.