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...when Dali began a long effort to reconcile his new passions--physics and religion--his reputation began its serious decline. And it can't be denied that his newly rediscovered Catholic piety led to some cheesy and meretricious paintings, like the portraits of his wife Gala as the Virgin. But it also produced the magnificent crucifixions of the early 1950s. With its sources in Zurbarán, Caravaggio and Velázquez, and with its hint of movie-camera angles that never quite happened in the movies, Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubicus) is one of the handful of truly powerful devotional images of 20th...
...A380 is Airbus' prized 21st century showpiece. The plane, which has a list price of $285 million (though airlines rarely pay the published rate on any plane), has been ordered by major airlines around the world, including Air France, Emirates, Lufthansa, Qantas and Virgin. Last month UPS joined FedEx as the second U.S. cargo airline to buy the freighter version. "The A380 is the most significant event in aviation in 40 years--since the introduction of the Boeing 747," says Stephen Forshaw of Singapore Airlines, which will be the first airline to fly the aircraft, in the spring...
...ordered the plane, but three airports--San Francisco's, Los Angeles' LAX and New York's John F. Kennedy--are gearing up for foreign airlines, such as Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, that have. Some runways and taxiways have to be widened and terminals expanded for the extra passengers. Virgin Airways said it postponed delivery of its A380s, partly out of concern that LAX was not moving fast enough. Sources say planes at LAX may at first have to park away from the terminal, with passengers then being bused in. But an LAX spokeswoman says it will be ready...
...There will be two ways to get lucky on a Virgin Atlantic flight...
...straight year of selling more planes than Boeing. The A380 is Airbus' prized 21st century showpiece. The plane, which has a list price of $285 million - though airlines rarely pay the published rate - has been ordered by major airlines around the world, including Air France, Emirates, Lufthansa, Qantas and Virgin. "The A380 is the most significant event in aviation in 40 years - since the introduction of the Boeing 747," says Stephen Forshaw, an executive at Singapore Airlines, which will be the first airline to fly the aircraft in the spring of 2006. For Chicago-based Boeing, which has been designing...