1.   I guess the modern equivalent of the actual party would be that Reform joke Ross Perot threw together.

2.   In their own minds they are the modern equivalent of highwaymen.

3.   These cargo planes are the modern equivalents of the tramp steamer.

4.   This is simply the modern individual equivalent of the psychoanalytic principle which holds that primal parricide was a consequence of a desire for incest with the mother.

5.   The honest farm-lad building stoops of corn -- or the modern equivalent.

6.   As the animating force of the firm, Gianni is-in level of income, status, opulence, and ambition-the modern equivalent of Renaissance nobility.

7.   A court saw through this crass bid for higher TV ratings and refused to allow the modern equivalent of a hanging in the public square.

8.   A white Mazda pulls up, and the doctor, Timothy Keay, emerges carrying a blue nylon satchel, the modern equivalent of the black bag.

9.   After all, he argues, the great writers and artists of the past have found their modern equivalent in celluloid and video.

10.   But it is the modern equivalent thereof.