71.   Nonetheless, friends describe Isabell as shy, a little mysterious, and private.

72.   Old friends like Cooperman describe him as a good and loyal friend, and he is well known for giving promising young people a chance.

73.   On that particular spring night he smashed a car windshield with his hands, or so a friend had described to him later.

74.   Privately, friends describe the columnist as brilliant, energetic, driven and self-absorbed.

75.   Tapping such creative energies has taken a toll on Larson, a man whom friends describe as intensely critical of his own work.

76.   The last few miles led us through Cave Creek Canyon, which friends had justly described as a little Yosemite.

77.   The parents of both boys, described by friends as decent and caring people from stable homes, have issued statements of sympathy over the attack.

78.   Unknown to Clinton, an associate of Ms. Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, had secretly tape-recorded numerous conversations in which her friend described an affair with Clinton.

79.   Unless they miraculously reassemble the mold, Sherwin Rosen is, as his friends describe him, the Last Chicagoan.

80.   As for Renoir, friends described him as nervous, incapable of standing still.