The week-long bombardment, it turned out, had been impressive mainly for its noise.
But, although it dispenses with flying sets, high-kicking chorines and orchestral bombardment, it is anything but artless: in fact it owes its success not just to its versatile performers but to the quiet brilliance of John Tiffany's direction and Bob Crowley's design.
After the bombardment it took the Indians 10 years before they got back on their feet.
In the north, the army took control of the flashpoint village of Aziza, following several days of fierce bombardment, it said.
In today's world of Internet bombardment, it's easy to become distracted by social networks, video games, and emails to the exclusion of more important activities, like having an uninterrupted conversation or finishing a work project.
However, under Israel's bombardment it is likely that production has now been drastically slowed.Simply extrapolating the current tempo of operations on both sides would suggest that missile stocks in Gaza will be getting very low within a fortnight.
The camp, near Khost in the eastern reaches of Afghanistan, within miles of the Pakistan border, was once known locally as "rocket city" for all the enemy bombardment it used to receive.
But as intense fighting continues around the Imam Ali shrine, where Sadr's fighters have resisted more than two weeks of US bombardment, it's worth taking a closer look at the man himself.
It hangs huge in a break in the clouds and smoke of his 1944 Battle of Germany – a painting that is not so much a panorama as a kind of abstracted Europe under bombardment (it is not a wholly successful painting, but that doesn't really matter).
Since LGO is very sensitive to electron bombardment, it is very difficult to obtain good quality high-resolution images of this material.
