They have a splendid group of young starting pitchers, after all.
A splendid group of shallow lotus bowls of the 18th dynasty (circa 1450 to 1250 B.C ., decorated in black with a range of motifs and inscriptions, is associated with life-giving water, as well as with Hathor, the cow-headed goddess of love, mirth and joy.
At the center of the reinstallation is a group of splendid Ming and Qing dynasty paintings recently given or promised to the museum by the New York collectors Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill.
Another group of splendid mosaics resides near the western entrance to the city in the ruins of the Nile House, so named after the large mosaic of the annual celebrations held in Egypt when the Nile overflowed with its nurturing waters.
The splendid vocalists of the New York group Lionheart, for whom the piece was written, stood in a ring around the audience, answering each other antiphonally or uniting in high, unearthly harmonies.
Here, too, every location came with a memory: the hot springs in Thermopolis, Wyo., where big, dead stuffed animals adorned the walls and the air smelled like sulfur, or that splendid tiki bar that the group discovered hidden behind the front desk in a hotel in Tecumseh, Mich.
Heading back to Germany in 1988, I found a splendid position as an independent group leader at the renowned Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in the small historical university town of Tübingen.
My disdain for this joke-of-a-group, and its splendid show is well known, but I rather suspect that my fellow Academy members will remember the film and its participants at Oscar time.
In those same mixed-age groups, they had "a splendid time" with Sgt. Pepper, engaging with the weirdness of the cover and the transporting music.
What is missing from Okrent's otherwise splendid account is a sense of which groups were most affected, since it is clear that enforcement varied widely among regions and social classes.
It is the other, the serene Veronese, characterized by splendid colour and a luminosity that animates groups of figures and pure architectural structures, who above all was loved in his time and in the following centuries.
