All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness—…

Del Sarto’s “Madonna of the Steps,” too fragile to travel from the Prado, appears here in the form of sketched details: images of piled drapery, of nude bodies (studio staff was no doubt recruited to pose), of detached feet and hands (including a tarantulalike set of fingers) and of a sweet child’s head, with another half-visible, like a mirage, behind it.

They say this year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain.

He got caught double-dipping by billing the government directly as well as the primary contractor.