11.   It is an unfolding, processional space, a modern equivalent of the organized exteriors and interiors that lead us into and through Baroque buildings.

12.   It is the modern equivalent of listening furtively at the bathroom door after the teen-ager drags the phone in there for a private conversation.

13.   Junk e-mail is just the modern equivalent of all those mailings that I worked on so diligently.

14.   Miss Manners says this is the modern equivalent of a butler, who politely informs callers that madame is not available.

15.   Movie stars have become the modern equivalent of the fickle and exuberant gods, goddesses, nymphs and satyrs of Greek and Roman mythology.

16.   Not surprisingly, they are appearing all over the Internet, which has been called the modern equivalent of the printing press.

17.   The illness, post-traumatic stress disorder, is the modern equivalent of shell shock, or combat fatigue.

18.   The modern equivalent of searching for a needle in a haystack is searching for just about anything on the Web.

19.   The modern equivalent of Roman fortifications is not to build walls or forts with modern techniques, but rather to emulate the underlying Roman priorities.

20.   The novel surrounds the reader like the modern equivalent of the Cyclorama, Updike says, with detailed descriptions of Atlanta, Oakland, Calif., and the Bahamas.