91.   Brooks was nominated, though, for best original screenplay for the film, which he wrote with Mark Andrus.

92.   Bullfighting is the centerpiece of this story and Michener readily admitted his debt to Ernest Hemingway, who wrote with such verve and insight about this Spanish passion.

93.   But a principles text he was writing with another dissenting economist, Arjo Klamer, came down with a case of vertigo and remains incomplete.

94.   But also Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell, folk balladeers who infused lyric writing with the imagery and confessional aspect of modernist poetry.

95.   But few have written with as much passion and sympathy for the dispossessed, so evocatively of nature or with such unpretentious good humor about their own writing.

96.   But Fatsis was, and he writes with affectionate zeal about the game and the fraternity of brilliant, lonely, otherwise dysfunctional oddballs it attracts.

97.   But for some, corkscrews are as personal as a fountain pen, where you never let anyone else write with your nib.

98.   But Fussell writes with breezy charm, and he has a distanced, quizzical, unheroic view of himself.

99.   But he writes with unflinching honesty.

100.   But in past eras there were also plenty of songs, written with teen-agers in mind, to capture the feeling that puppy love would last forever.