41.   Still, when she enters a Left Bank cafe for an interview, crossing a crowded room to her table in a dark corner, not one head turns.

42.   That may matter in a crowded room.

43.   That was the case Wednesday, as consumer advocates, regulation proponents, corporate lawyers and energy executives milled around the crowded room and spilled out into the lobby.

44.   The decision Wednesday morning was greeted with applause from supporters who attended the hearing inside a crowded room at the board headquarters on a cold, drizzly day.

45.   The differences between the two systems can be compared to modes of conversation in a crowded room.

46.   The final tally was announced in a crowded room that evoked examination day at a British boarding school, with deputies milling around desks so old they had inkwells.

47.   Their hands remained clasped for five pumps of the arm, a gesture ignored by no one in the crowded room.

48.   Then coach Jim Fassel entered the crowded room.

49.   Then I saw her, across the crowded room, a proper-looking lady on a loveseat under a painting of a woman in a flamboyant yellow dress.

50.   They are like people who, on a hunch, cry fire in a crowded room in order to demonize their foes.