1.   And weep, once more, for Steffi Graf who was hot off the baseline this week with a whingeing moan about her physique.

2.   But with the books hot off the press, the chairman of the NEA on Tuesday received some troubling news.

3.   Hot off the wire is the news that Bob Dylan will sing for Pope John Paul II.

4.   It helps to think of these deep browns as hot off the desert.

5.   No question the Patriots are hot off the field.

6.   Of course, no book or lineup of display cases can convey the exhilarating charge of live poetry, hot off the press or spoken out loud.

7.   The book is hot off the press and will not be available in bookstores until January.

8.   The height of the barbecue season is not when anyone wants to hear about the hazards of eating meat with a nicely blackened crust hot off the grill.

9.   Chefs were at hand to dish up the food hot off the stove.

10.   While waiting for the first course, Yin, Rose and I start with finger slices of garlic bread hot off the grill.