11.   Friday he is off to campaign in Springfield, Ill., where Republicans traditionally have rubbed the nose on a bust of Abraham Lincoln for good luck.

12.   Here it comes, I thought, another politician afflicted with total recall, rubbing my nose in one of those cockamamie predictions I make just to be provocative.

13.   In that lengthy clip, Ms. Lewinsky sighed, she rubbed her nose, she brushed back her hair, she sipped water from a straw.

14.   In Washington, when Clinton and Starr rub noses, it only determines whether the palaver of Hillary Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal is covered by executive privilege.

15.   It delivers the dirty fun, but then wants to rub our nose in its messages.

16.   It rubs your nose in drabness and poverty.

17.   Just when you figured out how to coexist with Barney the irritatingly cheerful purple dinosaur, along comes Casper the friendly ghost to rub your nose in aggressive perkiness.

18.   Nobody likes being called losers, and having your nose rubbed into losses.

19.   Now we get our noses rubbed in it.

20.   On hand to rub her nose in the revelation is Paula, an underling played by Julia Stiles with the eerie opacity of a department store mannequin.