71.   At the reception, the band is a bit flat and the small gathering refuses to dance.

72.   Band was chief executive of BZW, the investment banking arm of Barclays Plc, for eight years.

73.   Bands have been sort of cautious lately, so people think we must be joking.

74.   Backstage, the band is exultant, even as members joke about learning the songs someday.

75.   Be sure to begin each cut at the same level, as though there were a band around the carrot.

76.   Before it could begin work on a new album, the band was back on the road.

77.   Bertis Downs, an R.E.M. spokesman, said the band is still trying to determine which other radio stations used the promotion.

78.   A band like that is self-sufficient.

79.   A favorite band is in town and you find out about it three weeks later.

80.   A member of the band Gaunt, which toured with NP last year, said the band was like KISS, its apparently spontaneous moves well choreographed.