41.   Dick Wolf, the mastermind behind the series, says he has always seen the city as a central character.

42.   Each of the acts begins with the three central characters walking onstage in grave procession and forming themselves into, yes, a triangle.

43.   Each film has an almost unnervingly observant little girl as its central character.

44.   Having someone spiritual as the central character is commendable, and certainly bankable in this current political climate, but the episode I previewed was dreadfully heavy-handed.

45.   He also appears to have affection for the central character, sweetly, breathily impersonated by Margaret Colin, while sending up everyone around her.

46.   He is both narrator and a central character.

47.   He often quotes the crucial moment when the central character, Julian English, throws a drink into the face of his boss.

48.   He was a central character both weeks with decidedly different results.

49.   He then jumps to his two central characters beginning their journey in a chocolate-colored Plymouth convertible on a drive to Sao Paulo.

50.   He then spins his story through an orderly presentation of witnesses and evidence to reach a climax where the central characters are called to testify.