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When I last looked out over the control panels of the Boeing 707, as we were ascending after a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, the sky had been a brilliant blue, with the first orange and green streaks of dawn. Now nothing was visible through the windshield but a swirling mass of gray...
...love of the real Tuscan landscape does shine through. The Osservanza Master's The Resurrection, in which Christ flies out of the sepulcher in a blaze of gold glory, watched by the prostrated Roman soldiers, is rendered magical by the red flush of early dawn that appears along the black profile of the hills. In a panel of another broken-up altarpiece, Saint Anthony rejects the temptations of a pile of gold the Devil put in his path. The gold, however, was for some reason scraped off and repainted as earth, so that the saint appears to be overreacting...
...witty history of this peculiar art form. Charles Laughton's grasping hand reaches for a half-clad Maureen O'Hara in a teaser for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Gary Cooper clutches a gun and Madeleine Carroll clutches him in an ad for The General Died at Dawn (1936); William Powell and Hedy Lamarr gaze out from Crossroads (1942), "where women," promises the caption, "wait to seal your fate!" Even without popcorn, Reel Art is a real hoot...
Local reporters said the An-12 cargo plane crashed before dawn because the pilot mistook a well-lighted highway for a runway...
...exploded in the second period, with goals from Dawn Harris, Shauna Davidson, and Andrea Hunter. The Crimson responded with one, scored by Whyte off a give-and-go with help from Lind and Trotman...