1.   And so begins the long national nightmare of summer reruns.

2.   A third national nightmare to round out a history that started with Vietnam, proceeded to Watergate and lurched on to whatever-gate historians may call it.

3.   Four disturbing tales of an America shadowed by Vietnam, our national nightmare.

4.   Herewith, the lighter side of our long national nightmare.

5.   In that event, Gore becomes president, names Dianne Feinstein as vice president, and proclaims that the long national nightmare of Clinton scandals is over.

6.   It used to be politicians and their ambitious staffers who dragged us into our long national nightmares.

7.   It was thus disconcerting to learn that Monica Lewinsky regards my hometown as the source of her anguish and our long national nightmare.

8.   More concretely, then Gov. Jimmy Carter vowed that unlike Richard Nixon, the architect of our long national nightmare, he would never lie to the American people.

9.   OK, so it was a short national nightmare.

10.   Our long national nightmare of holiday reruns is at last over.