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Also, shades of the dog who didn't bark, the Post reveals that investigators are paying close attention to what the praying co-pilot didn't say: "There was no shocked expletive or puzzled comment, as pilots typically make in an emergency or when highly computerized aircraft suddenly take action without pilot input."
' When that something is the theft of the development codes for the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, however, such discretion shades into dereliction of duty of the worst kind.
In churches and palaces around his native Venice, and then, as his fame spread, as far afield as Dresden and Madrid, Tiepolo was without peer in executing the tricks that make for a believable scene in the heavens: the figures foreshortened as if seen from below, the sturdy cloudbanks, the shades of pink and blue that draw the eye toward the infinite.
If so, is he filling a much needed, or a much lamented, gap in turning issues that are really cast in pastel shades into Day-Glo relief?
He could paint a violin as a number of superimposed geometrical shapes of varying shades of brown.