21.   Just this past spring, they received the first Tony Awards ever presented for lifetime achievement.

22.   Last year, Michaelis won a second Peabody Award, for lifetime achievement.

23.   Miller will receive a special Tony for lifetime achievement in the theater.

24.   No, I was there because Wilder was about to get the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime achievement in the arts.

25.   Ripken was named an American League All-Star simply as an honor for lifetime achievement, his statistics this season hardly meriting his inclusion on the team.

26.   She had to fly to New York to accept a Tony award for lifetime achievement.

27.   Smith, Puckett and Boggs deserve spots on the team for lifetime achievement.

28.   Special awards for lifetime achievement will also be given to the actress Uta Hagen and to Isabelle Stevenson, chairwoman of the American Theater Wing.

29.   Still, the biggest controversy this year is that attached to the special lifetime achievement Oscar, usually considered a stately ritual.

30.   That effort culminated with Ray receiving a special Academy Award for lifetime achievement.