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...golf in the New England spring is hardly conductive to low scoring. Wet fairways and windy, rainy, sub-40 degree conditions that traditionally mar April in Massachusetts are adversaries that bother everyone, but the golfing truism that bad conditions bring the best to the fore underscores another Crimson challenge...
...rings and T shirts, and catch a flash of history. In Barcelona, by contrast, life continued as usual. It flows and crests from dawn to dawn here: sunny Sunday mornings watching the albino gorilla in the zoo; early evenings in the stained-glass quiet of Santa Maria del Mar; late, late evenings with thrashing guitars at the penumbral nightclub KGB. Old women dance stately sardanes in front of the cathedral, and men in silk ties ride scooters to the office. Smiling pickpockets filch bank notes from the wallets of sightseers while placing roses in their hair...
Nichols' Pony appropriately annoys the audience with adolescent behavior, interspersed with glimpses of desperate insecurity. His final breakdown is strained and his subsequent apology not contrite enough, but this does not mar his performance...
Catalan Gothic is austere, primal, bony architecture, nowhere near as decorated as French or English. Its grandeur is all in the structure, and no building displays this more piercingly than the 14th century church of Santa Maria del Mar, the "workers' church" of Barcelona, with its sublimely plain interior, a solemn Sequoia grove of stone hewed from the quarries of Montjuic, the mountain that guards the port...
...insidous cancer that besieged its tissues, sapped its strength, and made necessary a violent euthanasia will never mar the memory of its nobility...