Or was it merely from "the workshop of" Velázquez, as experts concluded a few decades later?
"They're all ghosts, and I'm not," he concluded, a few days after the shoot.
The text concludes, a few pages later, "Ingmar Bergman was like nobody else: a creative mountain of neuroses and demons".
During the campaign that concluded a few days ago, he staked out few economic positions that varied substantially from those of Joaquin Lavin, his right-wing opponent.
"If there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy," the conservative Catholic journal Crisis concluded a few years ago, "its leaders probably meet in George's kitchen".
Mr Beye, a Malian who had devoted five years to bringing peace to Angola, had concluded a few weeks before his death that there was nothing more he could do for a country whose leaders were not interested in peace.
After looking more closely, he concluded a few weeks ago with a devastating, but little noticed, speech that suggested the contrary: all this trading, this "liquidity" to use the jargon, doesn't necessarily make life better for the clients (and indirectly the rest of us); much of it just makes life better for the traders.
Most of this advertising, through huge TV campaigns and relentless logo-slathering, is devoted to image-building (not surprising, since Consumer Reports concluded a few years ago that even devoted fans of the megasellers Budweiser and Miller Genuine Draft could rarely tell them apart by taste).
He made 27 speeches, including seven in Omaha, the last concluding a few minutes before midnight.
