21.   Gerzon, who has made a career of pondering the American scene, does see one patch of common ground that we, the people, can inhabit.

22.   He has placed himself somewhere in the middle ground of the American political scene for most of this century.

23.   It has been especially bad for his filmmaking to turn his political insights to the American scene.

24.   Julieta Venegas has always had one ear on the pulse of the American alternative scene and the other on the music of her native Mexico.

25.   Lost in the pictures was the steady commentary that President Clinton uttered upon the American scene as it slid past his perch at the rear of the train.

26.   More than any other politician on the American scene he has been picked apart, evaluated, analyzed, and always the focus returns to his character.

27.   Moreover, through his choices of repertory, commissions and soloists, he has had an impact on the entire American orchestral scene.

28.   Muslims are relative newcomers to the American religious scene.

29.   No such dramatic changes are in sight on the American scene.

30.   Nobody on the American scene is better at recognizing the symbolic import of such issues and turning them to advantage than William Jefferson Clinton.