21.   Murphy lends his voice to the principal character, Thurgood Stubbs, the excitable building superintendent of the Hilton-Jacobs Projects.

22.   NBC, for airing eight sitcoms whose principal characters are upper-middle-class white people engaged in the communications industry.

23.   Not only does the music still have a tremendous impact, but the story and principal character exercise an endless, insatiable fascination.

24.   Of the six principal characters, four are black.

25.   Operas that cast ideas as their principal characters have a hard time getting on.

26.   Others decried the depiction of the principal Vietnamese characters as prostitutes, pimps and villainous Viet Cong.

27.   Rather, it seemed to sum up the peculiar atmosphere of the film, all of whose principal characters are searching for valid moral coordinates in a postmoral world.

28.   Sure, the principal character is a plain-speaking oaf of white-bread America, quick with an impolitic comment or an offensive barb.

29.   The gun of the title, seeming to have an evil life of its own, passes through the hands of the principal characters in all three stories.

30.   The Maple Leafs are the feel-good story of the playoffs, or would be if the principal characters were more accessible.