41.   Outside, a crowd of three dozen peacocks minced about the yard, perching in trees and bristling imperiously atop a tall barn roof.

42.   Past the threshold, the eye fastens on a yellowed photograph of a woman perched in a rickshaw.

43.   Perched in a corner of her studio in New York City, Ms. Anderson, wearing her characteristic work clothes, smokes cigarette after cigarette.

44.   Perched in a metal frame near the wall of the vast room is a machine that has been used to test circuit boards coming off nearby assembly lines.

45.   Perched in his green high chair at the net, he was umpiring the final, doing his job audibly and competently enough.

46.   Perched in an industrial area not far from the Major Deegan Expressway, the building has a checkered history.

47.   Perched in an office at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, however, Laurents is full of non-cheery thoughts.

48.   Perched in a wheelchair.

49.   Problem is, the best spot looks to be among the spectators perched in trees and sitting atop the makeshift fences for a better view.

50.   She had promised to perch herself in one of the trees the minute a bulldozer appeared at the park, which is across the street from her house.