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The Carriage Museum (Museo delle Carrozze), in a wing on the far right of the palace, and the Royal Apartments (Appartamenti Monumentali), upstairs, right of the main entrance, show an opulent, truly palatial life that the palazzo’s dour exterior never lets you suspect.
The merchants of Venice that were the backbone of the Most Serene Republic were only too happy to dessiminate their Oriental cargoes of exotic goods to the dour lives of Lombards in the Po valley and beyond the Alps to the courts of northern Europe.
And it's probably true that psychological predisposition, as much as reason and intellect, leads dour characters like Paul Tsongas (and--until the other day--Bob Dole) to be preachers of sacrifice, while sunny characters like Jack Kemp become apologists for alchemy.
But what the LAT does not report, the NYT seizes on: Under the headline "Hormone That Slimmed Fat Mice Disappoints as Panacea in People," Gina Kolata (who last year came under fire for over -hyping a cancer study) gives a dour prognosis.
Nevertheless, the paper called Clark's victory speech "cautious and dour" and lacking in vision.