31.   He veered smoothly away from politics into typical Seinfeld territory, wryly observing the manners and absurdities of contemporary life.

32.   Hebert, a professor of English at Dartmouth College, is best known for a series of novels dealing with contemporary New England life.

33.   Hidden, somewhat hard to get to and endowed with tough strains of resistance to the ravages of contemporary life, this town just never slipped into the grave.

34.   In Taxiscope, as he calls his global project, the taxi is like a Thai temple traveling at the speed of contemporary urban life.

35.   Instead, clothes more closely matched to contemporary life have become more desirable.

36.   In these twilight days of the ashtray, as it becomes ever more of an artifact, all sorts of odd perturbations in contemporary life have resulted.

37.   It unflinchingly portrays an aspect of the isolation and emptiness of contemporary urban life.

38.   Jacobs seems to draw his inspiration more from visits to vintage-clothing dealers than from the rhythms of contemporary life.

39.   Kemelman is at once charming and opinionated, not unlike Rabbi Small, and, like the rabbi, he contemplates contemporary life with old-fashioned sensibilities.

40.   Like Leigh in those films, Dizdar cuts between disparate and complementary stories to get at the density and complexity of contemporary urban life.