71.   He has sat across from this stranger in this avocado-colored kitchen for decades.

72.   He sat across from her broad desk, with the air-conditioner humming and the jalousie windows closed against the heat.

73.   He said that the person sitting across from him might be his responsibility.

74.   He sat across from me in the diner on the westbound Empire Builder, somewhere in Montana.

75.   He sits across from a dark green mailbox plastered with dozens of faces and descriptions of people missing.

76.   He would draw the most beautiful pictures and present them to a cute little blond girl who sat across the aisle from him.

77.   Her press secretary, Noelia Rodriguez, sits across from the First Lady.

78.   I am sitting across from a lunatic, some little guy who has spent too much time in the sun, yet I feel myself getting defensive.

79.   I think it was by accident, but the man sitting across noticed it and began to laugh.

80.   I was on the subway en route when I realized that the man sitting across the aisle from me was George Wright, one of my high school teachers.