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...menu consists of salads, pizzas and-unusually for a place in this neck of the woods-sushi. It's all of a serviceable standard, but Fiesta's young, cosmopolitan atmosphere, the weekend DJ nights and the opportunities for people watching through expansive windows overlooking colorful Uritskogo Street-one of the city's main shopping drags-add plenty of seasoning. An added bonus is Arbatskii Dvorik, the cozy restaurant located upstairs from the café, which is named after the Arbat, a famous street in Moscow. As well as English menus, you'll find some decent wines there-a big plus...
...match was one with a theme, as all three games opened with the two teams trading sideouts. And in each, Springfield found a way to string together a few points to take a big lead. “At the start of each of the games, we were neck-and-neck, maybe one or two points behind, and then the Springfield players would start ripping jumpers,” Fitz said. “We would let them spring off six or seven points in a row and dug ourselves into a hole that we couldn?...
Michelangelo did not, as legend has it, paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel lying down. He stood up, neck craned back, for the entire enterprise. That scholarly judgment is just one of many in The Sistine Chapel (Harmony Books; 271 pages; $60), an intensive look at the Vatican's most famous treasure. The book's seven essays give due credit to other artists who embellished the Renaissance chapel of Pope Sixtus IV, including Botticelli and Raphael. But the focus is on Michelangelo, whose preference for bright colors is coming to light as restorers clean centuries of candle soot, grime...
...were trying to blend in with the well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were poor peasants in unfamiliar city clothes. Their shirts all had identical shirt-box creases. One peasant, an apple grower named Liang Yumin, tugged at his neck throughout our conversation, fingering the piece of cardboard still tucked under his collar...
Imagine my surprise, then, to open Robert Fagles' new translation of The Aeneid and discover that it's, you know, pretty great stuff. Here's the demise of Euryalus: "He writhes in death/ as blood flows over his shapely limbs, his neck droops,/ sinking over a shoulder, limp as a crimson flower/ cut off by a passing plow." Fagles published terrific translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey a few years ago, so maybe I shouldn't have been gobsmacked by his Virgil. They're all quite popular too, part of a renewed passion for the classical world. The culture...