21.   Any politician would have a hard time passing that test.

22.   Artists like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ernest Hemingway and Jackson Pollock have all been psychoanalyzed, as have politicians, from Napoleon to Lincoln to Nixon.

23.   As Congress works to manage the deregulation of the multibillion-dollar telephone industry, some politicians have more than public policy at stake.

24.   At least politicians have to run for re-election.

25.   At times it seems a politician has nothing to lose by patronizing or even insulting those who receive government aid.

26.   Because every town is different, and every electorate is different, and every politician has different shades of lickspittling, expedience and grovelly time-serving.

27.   Besides, politicians will have little interest in cutting off the source of their own bonanza.

28.   Beyond their designs on the White House, the two politicians have virtually nothing in common.

29.   Before the parade began in earnest, the politicians had their chance with the crowd, walking, waving and shaking hands.

30.   Black politicians have a special duty to the black community.