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Upon entering, the first pleasant surprise is Monet's Poppies Near Vétheuil and Manet's In the Garden of Bellevue hanging in the downstairs salon. But the vibrancy and luminosity of those Impressionist masters are just a foretaste of this small but exquisite museum's offerings. Upstairs, for instance, is Van Gogh's The Sower, whose thick brushstrokes and bright greens, yellows and blues announced a new style for the artist at an especially troubled period of his life: only two months after finishing it in 1888, Van Gogh argued with Gauguin and famously cut off part...
Nick was about as nice as an old man with a dislocated hip can be. Despite what is typically an extremely painful problem, he was pleasant, talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that...
...He’s really made the transitions receiver seamlessly, so he’s been a very pleasant surprise,” Murphy says...
...We’re glad to have Mazza and Luft and Matt Lagace, who has been, really, probably the most pleasant surprise in preseason, back and healthy and at a high level,” head coach Tim Murphy says...
Bagdis and defensive tackle Matt Curtis will anchor that line, which is joined by new starters Sonny McCracken and Chuks Obi, whom Murphy described as “one of the more pleasant surprises” of the preseason...