In tonight's presentation, as in the first half of the biography, Mr. Perot provided rambling answers to questions posed by Murphy Martin, his campaign media consultant.

Long, rambling answers.

Instead of her rambling answer Wednesday night, Mrs. Clinton could have dispatched the issue with a few simple sentences.

But at other times, Mr. Bush offered confused, rambling answers.

There was an assortment of rambling answers, some personal, some prescriptive, mostly earnest - "We need to change the kinds of books and movies people read and watch."

They received the same rambling answer.

Even a routine question can elicit a long, rambling answer, with Campbell speaking in a stream of consciousness.

While finishing a rambling answer about what doctors have said about his progress, Strawberry speculated about what might happen if the cancer went into remission and returned.

House grills Mark about Stacy, to which he gives a long, rambling answer about how they honeymooned in Paris.

The rambling answer depicted Mr. Simpson as a man his friends, including Nicole Brown Simpson, came to in times of trouble.