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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.
The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.
Its tone somehow both baleful and bemused, wistful yet wan.
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.
Neither does he provide any answers to the problem, merely a wistful remembrance of how "good" it was.