21.   He burst onto the NBA scene in January, a self-professed geek from the rapidly moving Internet world.

22.   He smiles unseen, gambols and cavorts every time one of his characters bursts onto the stage.

23.   He was on the verge of bursting onto the big-league scene in a big way.

24.   It burst onto the scene just as the Information Superhighway and World Wide Web were becoming household words.

25.   It has burst onto the Internet.

26.   It was just two years ago that Ms. Skinner and Ms. Ripley burst onto Broadway literally connected at the hip.

27.   It was Venus, considered the more powerful of the two, who burst onto the big-time scene first.

28.   New ones burst onto the scene out of nowhere.

29.   No one will dispute that Tyson burst onto the scene like few before him.

30.   Nine years ago, a young, vigorous leader named Mikhail Gorbachev was bursting onto the world stage with new ideas about how to renew the Soviet Union.