launch window;  window of opportunity;  You have a two-hour window of clear weather to finish working on the lawn.

And Enid brought sweet cakes to make them cheer, / And in her veil enfolded, manchet bread.

With furtive references to Gnostic gospels and a cast of characters that includes a beautiful blond novice (with whom Luciano fancies himself in love), a corrupt council of cardinals, a syphilitic doge and the brutal Cappe Nere, or secret police, all abroad in Venice’s sinister maze of watery alleyways, the scene looks set for a cliffhanging thriller in the style of “The Da Vinci Code.”

Offender typologies have proven to be most effective in the prison context, especially in terms of Dawe’s dangerosity indicators.