Hegel says somewhere that all great historic facts and personages recur twice.

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That was enough of a blow to the Times, where Shipley is held in high esteem for his ability to coax op-ed contributions from prominent and diverse personages.

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Faced with the sensible course -- say, opening a car rental franchise -- or facing his fears and opening his lungs before a crowd of important personages, Brennan proves that there is still hope.

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The two personages size each other up.

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There, arrayed in front of him, chasing that city softball, laughing at each other, tearing up their shoes on the tar, were the boys who were personages in his life -- apart from his family, it was almost everybody who mattered.

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Mandell also had these other august personages on his boards and as advisors at firms he owned and controlled: Former House Majority leader Richard K. Armey, L. Paul Bremer, Matthew Carrington, a former member of British Parliament, former New York City Police Chief Howard Safir, and Ex-CIA director Stansfield Turner.

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More than its blended iconography or august, prayerful figures, however, the painter's pictorial language defines El Greco's vision of heaven: The amorphous, billowing clouds, silvery palette and mannered, phantomlike personages who float in indeterminate space and time (including, prematurely, Spain's King Philip II) defy the laws and logic of material reality to conjure another realm.

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