21.   As the ballroom courtesies begin to seem as much a fantasy as the slow, stylized duet, the spectator becomes less sure about which image is reality.

22.   As that one day in June proved, Liddy Dole seemed as comfortable addressing the high-tech pooh-bahs here as the folks who drive the tractors.

23.   At first, Van de Velde seemed as likely a suspect as anyone.

24.   At first glance, curling seems as likely an Olympic sport as miniature golf.

25.   At times, as one disaster followed another, news anchors and reporters seemed as much like shaken citizens as journalists.

26.   At times, Gore seemed just as pained to make any concessions to the Chinese.

27.   A popular avant-garde might seem as much a contradiction as a tenured one.

28.   According to the Russians, Putin told Clinton that Miami seemed as good a place for Milosevic as Moscow, the officials said.

29.   Across the region, the era of one-party control seems as much a relic of the past as segregated water fountains.

30.   After all he had done to shepherd my order along, the rug seemed as much his as mine.