11.   Last time the Kings were in this rarefied air, they were riding on blinding star power.

12.   Mattie Roundtree launched her family into the rarefied air of ideas.

13.   Nice to come here to the high cool mountains and breathe in the rarefied air, to ruminate amid the aesthetic presumptions of this blessed city.

14.   Others will get to tour the clubhouse, hang with Hank in the booth or breath the rarefied air of a luxury box.

15.   Smith, of course, breathes such rarefied air routinely.

16.   That way, Laffit Pincay could share the summit with Bill Shoemaker on Thursday, the two winningest jockeys in history basking in the rarefied air of mutual admiration.

17.   The Cowboys have done an injustice to the greatness of the above threesome by allowing good runners to hang out in their rarefied air.

18.   The next senator could be shaped in the Kassebaum mold, refusing to be awed by the supposedly rarefied air in the Capitol.

19.   The rarefied air was dizzying.

20.   The rarefied air of seventh place might be making Adelman a little light-headed.