31.   A popular figure with religious conservatives like former Vice President Dan Quayle?

32.   A skinny, exquisitely abstracted figure with its hands held up in blessing or revelation, it was originally carved in wood.

33.   A striking figure with a stocky build, shaved head and eloquent face, he often traveled the country, speaking at small black colleges and in prisons.

34.   After some mindless chitchat, the two men began talking about philosophy, team chemistry and individual goals, according to a basketball figure with knowledge of what occurred.

35.   All have carved bases of seated female figures with scarification on their torsos and legs of serpentine flexibility.

36.   But Berezovsky is just one of many influential figures with close Kremlin ties who will be intently lobbying on behalf of their own candidates in the coming days.

37.   But even as fire and smoke fill the sky, a figure with broken chains soars free.

38.   But it is the road he chose, albeit one step ahead of the tall skeletal figure with the scythe and the bad tailor.

39.   But it would rely on the support of a number of political figures with reputations for corruption.

40.   But it was unclear why Bulatovic, a relatively colorless figure with a low profile in Belgrade, might have been assassinated.