On the brochure, the Hotel Belleclaire looks splendid, surging up from 77th Street and Broadway.
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.
One notes, too, the xenophobia driving a neoclassical narrative in which the Palestinian queen Berenice (a glistening Anne-Marie Duff) is disallowed any future with the Roman emperor, Titus (Stephen Campbell Moore), so as not to inflame public opinion, even as Titus's chum Antiochus (Dominic Rowan, splendid) eyes up the eponymous (and, here, barefoot) heroine for himself.
Feed Zone Portables | $15.49 | feedzonecookbook.com This is the splendid follow up to professional cycling nutrition expert Dr. Allen Lim's first book, The Feed Zone Cookbook.
(Board book; ages 2 to 5) A follow-up to "Sniff," Matthew Van Fleet's latest mini-interactive book has the high quality of his splendid pop-ups for older readers.
And Bioware of Edmonton, Alberta, not only produced a splendid follow-up to Baldur's Gate, its groundbreaking role-playing game from 1998, but also a follow-up to MDK, Shiny Entertainment's sweetly funny action game from 1996.
Both are treating us to some splendid build-up play but no one wants to shoot when they get in position!
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.
I first heard about Avila from Gary Menes, for whom he was chef de cuisine at the splendid pop-up Le Comptoir.
The splendid Vieira snapped up possession and tucked a delicious pass inside the static Mario Melchiot.
