81.   The consensus among many arts leaders is that the NEA exists now only as a shell of its former self.

82.   The Greatest Spectacle in Racing is not even a shadow of its former self in its current incarnation as the premier event of the Indy Racing League.

83.   The fact is, the Bruins are a shell of their former selves.

84.   The lodge lies buried below hundreds of feet of debris from avalanches and mud flow, and the peak is a gaping, jagged shadow of its former self.

85.   The Mighty Mississippi, known for flooding entire towns from Iowa to Louisiana, these days is a slow, slender shadow of its former self.

86.   The IBM shareholder-services department is a shadow of its former self.

87.   The magazine continues to publish even as its former self winds its way through bankruptcy.

88.   The Monitor newspaper limps forward, a shadow of its former self.

89.   The once-beautiful facility was a bone-dry, cracked shell of its former self.

90.   The one in Los Angeles was a shadow of his former self, a bent-over shadow with a bad back.