21.   Critics ribbed the operatic war horse as a bad-air day followed by a building collapse, but Moshinsky sees it as a tragedy.

22.   They are an old war horse on Paris runways that Christian Lacroix, Jean-Paul Gaultier and others found attractive years ago.

23.   In addition to Chirac and Balladur, other right-wing war horses threw their cap into the ring last week, encouraged by continuing disarray on the left.