21.   Buchanan, ever combative, is talking like a man intent on denying Bush the opportunity to whip him.

22.   Bush buddy David Beasley, ousted this month as governor of South Carolina, spent this week talking like a man waiting to join a Bush presidential campaign.

23.   But after I said it, people started saying I was talking like Joe Namath.

24.   But for long stretches in this two-hour film, the characters talk like parrots.

25.   But he now led the opposition, and he talked like a democrat.

26.   But he talked like an investor as he dismissed fears about an Internet stock bubble.

27.   But he would not talk like this for long or too deeply.

28.   But his ministers talk like capitalists and have vowed to end corruption.

29.   But he also talked like a man who realizes the serious battle is not over.

30.   But he has been talking like a safety since he got here.