11.   No dancing girls, mascots, blaring music or whoring for the corporate dollar with a promotion during each timeout.

12.   Obscenities flowed from a record store that blared rap music.

13.   No music was being blared to upset sensitive neighbors, but no tunes were required.

14.   Over blaring rock music, actor-athletes rappel down ropes, dangle by their feet, shoot realistic-looking guns and narrowly escape exploding things.

15.   Restaurants blared music, men skipped the call to prayer and some cast off their burkas, the head-to-toe veil required by the Taliban.

16.   Restaurants blared music.

17.   Stories abounded of the police joining in the celebration as teen-agers danced on their cars and blared music over their sound systems.

18.   The bands blared music.

19.   The music blared, the dancing girls danced and the lights shone brightly.

20.   Wednesday night was clearly the most festive of the week on the convention-hall floor, as delegates tossed beach balls amid blaring Motown music.