71.   However, regardless of how good life may seem, how filled with multiple interests, events, and congenial people, the outer world is often not enough.

72.   If this couple is intended to represent upscale gay life in Los Angeles at its noblest, that life seems shallow, cold-hearted and grossly materialistic.

73.   In every corner of the country, life seems more fragile, more dangerous.

74.   In contrast to his early career, his home life now seems oddly quiet.

75.   In many ways, his life seems a world apart from his days before he knew a microprocessor from a mousetrap.

76.   In much of the town, however, life seems normal, if extra tidy.

77.   In so many ways her life seems smaller now.

78.   Indeed, down at the local tavern and on the streets of San Miguel, life seemed to have returned to normal just a day after the mass burial.

79.   Increasingly, life seemed sad and pointless.

80.   Indeed, her entire life seemed to turn on vendettas, a karmic loop of killing.