61.   But now the subspecies exists mostly as genetic bits and pieces in other lions, because many were captured for circuses and interbred.

62.   But Rumson exists as an easily-identifiable touchstone, a foil for the moderate-to-liberal president played by Michael Douglas.

63.   But the jurisprudence section of the sports pages exists as a daily reminder that reality snorts and smokes and, yes, does inhale.

64.   But the Torah behind glass exists as proof of the generations who prayed and celebrated births and bar mitzvahs and weddings with the Torah.

65.   But then, as now, Hollywood existed only as a neighborhood west of downtown Los Angeles, nothing more.

66.   But the stars of the show are the creatures that exist only as computer bytes but come roaring to life with dazzling energy.

67.   But they exist as breathing points, eloquent clearings of the throat that allow otherwise continuous narrative to catch its breath.

68.   But, she added, New York is a difficult place for people to exist as early-music performers.

69.   Carbon molecules previously were known to exist only as soft, slippery graphite, and hard, crystalline diamond.

70.   By simply existing as a silent German beauty, Nico became a blank screen for those around her, allowing them to project their own images onto her emptiness.