"An impeachment of the chief justice based on the evidence found will stand out as a historical aberration," Mr. Barry was quoted by The AP as saying.

And, it would correct a historical aberration - the great man never started a game in the top division.

Peace, not war, is the historical aberration.

"Maybe we'll find out that spaceflight turned out to be a historical aberration, like zeppelins," he said, adding:

The implicit message was, modernism represented a historical aberration, even an alien occupation, which post-modernism would now lay to rest.

Both are historical aberrations.

Grim Assessments Frank Luntz, a poll taker for Ross Perot's independent campaign last year, declared: "George Bush's election in 1988 was a historical aberration."

"The important thing to understand is that the very high interest and inflation rates of the cold war period were a historical aberration," he said.