11.   Armstrong has tried to finesse some of the occupational hazards of a big international show.

12.   Arrayed in its springtime best, Washington is engrossed in final preparations for its last big show before the Millennium.

13.   At the big designer shows, for example, runways could be filled with neon brights, but the audience was in black.

14.   At the big Comdex computer show in Las Vegas in November, a Gates look-alike hired by Palladium to promote Microshaft Winblows was thrown off the show floor.

15.   Before leaving, students thanked Baltimore, saying he encourages them and calms their nerves before a big show, mainly with bad jokes.

16.   Big metal shows like Ozzfest, he says, are the hardest to police.

17.   Besides the big shows in Annapolis, Md., Newport, R.I., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., smaller arenas are opening.

18.   A big new show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth captures it all.

19.   A report on all the latest products, tools and gadgets from the big show in Chicago.

20.   All of this proceeds toward the big show with the good-natured semi-competence of a school play.