21.   As he negotiates the beamed den of his Amherst home, John Edgar Wideman is both gangly and sleek, moving like the basketball player he once was.

22.   As if in a dream, they propel themselves across the water and move almost like musical notes across the horizontal lines of a staff.

23.   As they swam this way and that, moving like feathered zambonis, each left a wake behind it cleared of leaves.

24.   Baseball moves like a Niekro knuckler, which baffled sluggers like Bobby Murcer.

25.   A look beyond the turgid pace of Olympia legislation shows the stadium project moving like a bullet train.

26.   A near brawl between Charles Oakley and Larry Johnson resulted in a rugby scrum with both benches under the basket, moving like an amoeba toward halfcourt.

27.   After a stubborn, lumbering climb over several decades to reach the Israeli political pinnacle, Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon must now move like a gazelle.

28.   All the characters are bigger than life and the storyline moves like a sandstorm.

29.   But his son, Jani, moved like a dolphin in the water.

30.   But Gunton neither looks, sounds, nor even moves like Nixon.