61.   This time around, Smith is trying to soften his image and is stressing economic themes.

62.   Time has softened his image from that of a rebel with a cause to a rebel with a heart.

63.   Two decades of peace have done little to soften the image.

64.   Uribe sought on Monday to soften his image by hinting at talks with the guerrillas.

65.   Visually, Ms. Lewinsky softened her image.

66.   Yet the civility of his personal style and his earlier service as chief of staff to President Ford lent him moderate credentials that softened his image over the years.

67.   At daybreak, workers stacked concrete barriers three deep at each end of two blocks, then tried to soften the image with concrete flower pots.

68.   Bush also sought to soften his image among some Europeans as a go-it-alone leader with a distaste for alliances that are inconvenient to him.

69.   Diana recently told The New Yorker she tried to convince the royal family to hire professionals to soften their image.

70.   Even as Arroyo cracked down on opposition leaders, she pushed harder to soften her image.