71.   Even though the pages are sandwiched between hard covers, they read like clippings from the cheesiest of tabloids.

72.   Elliptically written, the stories sometimes read like brief film scripts or free verse.

73.   Except for roast pigeon, a Tuscan favorite, our menus read like theirs -- ravioli with walnut sauce, porcini mushrooms.

74.   Far from presenting a tight array of symptoms as recognized diseases do, the list attributed to GWS reads like the index of a self-help medical book.

75.   For a lesson on investing risk and reward, Russia reads like a textbook classic.

76.   From a distance, the first reads like an El Greco.

77.   Frank said that what he got back read like a form letter from the legal affairs department.

78.   He and his colleagues keep a dog-eared log book that reads like a police blotter in a big city, except the criminals are all animals.

79.   He could make an accident report read like a song.

80.   Her relief can be read like a billboard.