31.   Laughter can lift us over the high ridges and lighten up the dark valleys in a way that makes life much easier.

32.   Lighten up emotionally as much as nutritionally.

33.   Lighten up your footfalls this spring by slipping into some slings, slides and sandals.

34.   Lighten up an otherwise sexy glamour-girl dress by wearing a rhinestone dollar sign brooch.

35.   Might the state lighten up the terms of the tax payment guarantee?

36.   Mariuccia Mandelli, the Krizia designer, has lightened up her tailoring on linen jackets with wide leg pants and on slender coats shaped with vertical seaming.

37.   Pardon me for questioning the methodology of a legitimately great coach, but you think Mr. Burns could lighten up a little on this score-first business?

38.   Perhaps these folks should lighten up a bit.

39.   Philadelphia Eagles first-year Coach Ray Rhodes better lighten up if he wants to survive in the league.

40.   Players are starting to express their personalities, he said, and that not only lightens up the dressing room, it shows on the scoreboard.