11.   Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman, recognized that heel padding was somewhat superfluous and removed layer after layer of it until a glove suited him.

12.   Layer after smooth layer of nacre in concentric circles around the intruder becomes a pearl.

13.   No, this is Moscow, this is it -- scoops upon mounds upon layer after undulating layer.

14.   Packer after Packer added layer after layer just for the short jaunt across the Lambeau Field parking lot to the Don Hutson Practice Center across the street.

15.   Pearlstein will paint something, the tractor, say, lightly at first, then later repaint it, adding one thin layer after another.

16.   Perhaps the most remarkable detail is the exterior paint, layer after shimmering layer of it.

17.   Reno peels away layer after layer of an unwholesome secret linking the two cases.

18.   Then the machine guns finished them, dropping layer after layer of bodies into the mass grave.

19.   Under Bill Parcells the team has peeled off layer after layer of doubt and replaced it with layers of flair and brash confidence.

20.   Whatever usually stands between an audience and a song is stripped away, layer after layer.