71.   Once again, this one seems a bit like a retread.

72.   One stage would expire and the one that followed seemed to have no connection with the former, as if people had undergone a radical change overnight.

73.   On the home front things could get a little troublesome from Wednesday onwards as partners and loved ones seem determined to goad you into a fight.

74.   Probably in New York getting fitted for a new pair of those casual beige jobbies since the old ones seem, well, a bit snug.

75.   Records fall, barriers are broken, and the greatest ones never seem to notice them, like mileposts on a wide-open freeway.

76.   So every one seems to ask all the questions allowed in the bee.

77.   So, like many NFL rules, this one seems to be flexible.

78.   Strangely, every last one of them seems to be silent.

79.   Somehow, this one seems different.

80.   Such controversies over authenticity are fairly common in the old masters world and this one did not seem to faze the buyers.