21.   As the day progresses and the men drive east by way of Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham and Canterbury, their voices take turns describing scenes from their pasts.

22.   At the Cafe Rimon, another waiter, Anan Giada, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, had tears in his eyes as he described the scene.

23.   Ballard writes the main story and Colfax does a sidebar, describing the scene.

24.   Battle scenes are described obliquely through rumors and field reports discussed around conference tables, their effects hinted at on slips of paper passed anonymously in exclusive Saigon restaurants.

25.   Beyond describing the scene, he and others put tough questions to former government officials and terrorism experts in the studios and on the telephone.

26.   A Boston Globe article about a state-run pawn shop in Mexico City inaccurately described the scene outside of the shop.

27.   But people on both sides described scenes that were more West Side Story than presidential politics.

28.   Defense lawyers describe the scene as beginning with an exchange of words that suddenly flared into an eruption of violence.

29.   Describing beautiful scenes, he sticks to what things look like, not flowery rhetoric suggesting how their appearances should affect human souls.

30.   He described the scene as chaotic-looking but actually pretty well organized.