These days, with overcrowded planes, long security lines and hefty fees to check baggage, flying often really does ... well, you know.

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It is a typically early-Cubist, dun-colored congeries of arrowing lines and shaded planes, nudging in and out of shallow pictorial depth.

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"When planes aren't flying there aren't long lines there and the baggage office can give those out, " Leff said.

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