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He moves on to talking about his redesigns for lethal-injection systems, gas chambers, and even a gallows, while underneath, Caleb Sampson provides macabre funhouse music and wistful calliope waltzes.
The five much-anticipated Monica Lewinsky pics include: Monica lolling on grass in a red-checked gingham shirt (see: Marilyn Monroe), Monica wistful on the beach, Monica wrapped in an old American flag, Monica vamping with pink feather boa.
Embraced by green wooded escarpments and backed by snow-capped Alps, the lake favored by some of England’s most romantic 19th-century poets — Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron — retains a certain wistful atmosphere for the leisure hours of the Milanese (it’s less than an hour from Milan by train or car).
He moved, however, not toward anything resembling social protest; one of Corot's rare representations of modernization--a view of a textile factory with a woman sitting at a pre-industrial spinning wheel in the foreground--is more wistful than indignant.
Its tone somehow both baleful and bemused, wistful yet wan.