21.   Critics wonder whether the digital film revolution for home computers merely gilds the lily of passive entertainment.

22.   Critics wonder why the bank would prefer current officials to former ones, when officeholders have greater opportunity for reaping illicit gains.

23.   Critics wonder.

24.   Critics wondered why the recording companies did not counter Napster more directly by devising an online distribution system of their own.

25.   Critics wonder if Brazilian specialty coffee might swamp the market, undermining the allure of rare coffees.

26.   Critics wonder why the board approved the move without conducting a candidate search.

27.   Critics also wonder about the focus of a group financed primarily by the recording industry, with a heavy emphasis on free speech issues that figure in many recordings.

28.   Critics wondered if Ms. Clarke, who once wanted to be a painter, had become an artist of surfaces with a veneer of intellectuality.

29.   In Massachusetts, a private, members-only Internet bulletin board let public officials communicate electronically while astonished critics could only wonder what was discussed.

30.   Kotite was happy that his team gave the Cowboys a good fight, but his critics were wondering if he had cost the Eagles a chance to win.