One thing had to be made clear: He wanted to stay out of the picture.

Now, however, people largely stay out of the picture, at least while the race is on.

"There's no way an ex-mayor is going to stay out of the picture."

We tried to stay out of the picture as much as possible."

On moving day, as a photographer recorded the packing, James stayed out of the pictures.

I can live with it if it means he stays out of the picture.'

Dunstone stayed out of the picture but was of enormous help behind the scenes.

"I'll stay out of the picture," Sisko said.

The aim is for students to learn to "stay out of the picture when things are going on creatively" among the children themselves, Ms. Richardson said.

Ove's home security records Clas involved in a shootout, though Roger stays out of the picture.

But if, pre In Mr. Buffett's way, Uncle Sam stays out of the picture.

Jericho had the money and the brains to stay out of the picture, yet he controlled the picture itself, bartering souls with an impunity bought by bribery, fear, murder.

While Brown was upset that McBride did not consult him about the deal, the new owners said they would stay out of the picture and let Brown run the team.

Seriously, I'll be happy to tell this individual exactly what I told you, provided my identity can stay out of the picture, at least until the OCME officially gets involved."

And have audio-visuals made of the whole business, trial and execution, and be sure that the priests and Yoorkerk's officers are in the foreground and our people stay out of the pictures."

E.P.A. on Sidelines The Federal E.P.A. has stayed out of the picture because Du Pont recalled the product, said Carleton Layne, chief of the pesticide section for Region IV, which covers Florida.

Her work is more effective when she stays out of the picture: in another series, she combines grimly straightforward photographs of the women on a dance floor, with small colorful retablos in which they thank the Lord for extracting them from one scrape or another.