31.   It is about the way comedy turns to tragedy in an instant and alters lives forever.

32.   James Redfield kicks back on the porch of his new lakeside home in rural Alabama, recalling how a spiritual adventure story altered his life forever.

33.   John Malkovich is the megalomaniacal Murnau, convinced that the camera has the power to alter life itself.

34.   Lives were being altered.

35.   Many parents and some officials struck a note of defiance, taking pains to say that such attacks would not force them to alter their lives.

36.   New people, people who have money, are moving in, altering life for everyone.

37.   Newfangled inventions like X-rays, automobiles and phonographs were altering ordinary lives.

38.   Nevertheless, he prodded her to take the cooking lessons that not only altered their lives, but also the lives of countless Americans through the decades.

39.   My own life was altered by that bomb.

40.   Not so with Jim Herod and other professors, especially those in middle age, whose professional lives have been altered utterly by computer technology.