Exhibiting splendid close control, he received possession from Johnson about 20 yards out, dodged a couple of markers and, advancing, defied Roche, courtesy of a fine angled shot.
The sheer bigness made a splendid close to the 2016 Edinburgh international festival (proper festival stuff, this) but there were deeper reasons why performing Gurrelieder on this stage made an apt last concert for Donald Runnicles' tenure as chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Camille Pissarro's splendid close-up view of "The Garden of Octave Mirbeau at Damps (Eure)" realized $2.65 million, topping the high estimate by more than a third, and Claude Monet's summertime landscape (titled "Effet de Printemps à Giverny" despite the haystacks visible in the distance) climbed to $15.2 million.
"Them" is purportedly based on real events, their nature revealed in a splendid closing shot and elucidated in a final series of title cards.
"That's me!" And there she is, in a splendid, close-fitting evening dress, sitting demurely on a low, round rococo stall, framed by two huge blood-red velvet curtains that hang either side of a giant Georgian window.
Both faced stiff competition from Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld, which all reported record crowds -- anywhere from 65,000 to 90,000 in all -- on New Year's Eve, the day Splendid China closed.
One might have envied the Barbican audience that got to hear this splendid "Pastoral" up close, but for the fact that Mr. Haitink and the orchestra will be bringing all of the Beethoven symphonies to Avery Fisher Hall in October.
Maybe the Twins, their line of vision filled with red for the second straight night, could envision their splendid season crawling closer to an abrupt conclusion.
And for sheer visual pleasure you won't do better than this splendid volume of close-up color photographs of patterning in Mughal art from the 16th to 19th centuries.
With half an hour remaining, Goode reduced the arrears to only four points when he fired over a splendid drop-goal from close on 50 metres.
He read Isaac Asimov and tuned in to John Zacherle, this Phantom of the Opera-type guy with scraggly hair and a creepy laugh who introduced horror movies on Channel 9, which, if you were a kid at the time, was something close to splendid.
