Looks like Peña's goal of "playing nice" is going splendidly.
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KronoMuzik's splendidly generic anime music soundtrack is an excellent touch.
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Stiers did it splendidly too ... earning himself 2 Emmy nominations.
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So judge her by the outcomes and she's done splendidly.
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Under this system, elites and insiders made out splendidly well.
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Cities that have tried fees have found that they work splendidly.
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How otherwise do you think the blossom could bloom so splendidly?
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You get to add a splendidly weird coda to your book, too.
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As the Tory tabloids tell it, Johnson's gamble is playing out splendidly.
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That worked out splendidly for freshly elected black officials and their constituents.
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On the days when they didn't have scenes together, they got on splendidly.
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She and Wise, seven years her junior, ended up hitting it off splendidly.
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But he is splendidly talented and under team control for two more years.
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Sometimes this works splendidly, like in Edge of Tomorrow and Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol.
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MasterVoices, splendidly prepared by Ted Sperling, brought uplift and mystery to the final movement.
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Two historians in the academy who write splendidly are Jill Lepore and Simon Schama.
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Cole pitched splendidly aside from his struggles with Rays first baseman Ji-Man Choi.
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They still produce splendidly deep blacks, as all OLED screens do, when they have to.
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Ms. Goerke sang splendidly, with silvery top notes and earthy colorings lower in her range.
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Both my flatmates have breakfast with us, and to my delight everyone gets along splendidly.
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These cameras were about the size of a digital recorder, which made them splendidly discrete.
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First and foremost, Call Me by Your Name functions splendidly as a delicate, poignant romance.
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At first, things seem to be going splendidly for beauty supply store owner Loretha Curry.
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After a Jill Scott show, most people get splendidly laid by whoever they came with.
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The interactions surrounding Boo, the harsh-toned mother splendidly portrayed by Ellen Harvey, are often mesmerizing.
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In any case, it was splendidly performed by the Japanese players and a small vocal cast.
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Though Mr. Kaplan's backdrops are splendidly picturesque, the stage's wings are designed like tawdry interior décor.
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The performance splendidly balanced Schneider's Old World approach to Mozart with Mr. Serkin's youthful, rethought playing.
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It also represents what a splendidly self-fulfilling prophecy that delusion has often turned out to be.
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The two appeared to be getting along splendidly as they giggled with one another throughout the day.
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They do their jobs well and live a splendidly settled life together in an impeccably decorated cabinet.
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"The jobs market remains splendidly, relentlessly dull," said Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan.
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Berg tackles this question by coming at it from two different directions, and it works splendidly — and soberly.
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Like his earlier books, it is erudite, penetrating and splendidly written; alongside them, though, it seems positively straightforward.
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In past years, A Star Is Born has fared splendidly – nay, envy-inspiringly well — at the Golden Globes.
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"He can be splendidly audacious at times and, sometimes, at the wrong time," wrote one of his comrades.
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"These companies fit with each other splendidly and it's crazy how well they complement each other," he said.
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He recently hosted the Emmys and it went splendidly, according to various reviews (he only had one questionable moment).
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The only one to dress up is Michael Bublé, but that doesn't stop the whole thing feeling splendidly festive.
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Drake: Well, my day was going splendidly until Kendrick decided to piss on my paradeJay Elec: Look, fuck Kendrick.
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Footwork, physical rigor and, above all, dynamic contrasts — which these dancers can most splendidly exemplify — were only occasionally interesting.
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Which Trump the carnival barker is doing splendidly not due to any strategy but because that's what he does.
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Ford is splendidly grizzled and gruff, giving the film a necessary rasp, and he even shakes up Ryan Gosling.
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Yo-Yo Ma arrived quietly onstage halfway through to join a splendidly diverse array of musicians, instruments, and styles.
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Antoine Laurain — a Parisian novelist in his 40s, splendidly droll and noncommittal — declined to take up the melodramatic scenario.
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The more traditional elements involved rustling runs, skittish riffs and high tinkling figures that evoked pagoda chimes, all splendidly played.
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Speaking of which, this all goes splendidly well with the R + L = J theory, which we are thoroughly convinced of.
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He has played the standard repertory splendidly, but also has explored works by Janacek, Scandinavian composers and, most recently, Sibelius.
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The over-the-ear PM3 is a splendidly comfortable headphone that can be worn for hours, maybe even days, without fatigue.
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The splendidly specific figure of 208,500 New Zealand dollars was spent on sending the flag consideration panel — the flag consideration panel!
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In "Black No More," a doctor (the splendidly named Crookman) invents a procedure that permanently transforms black people into "Nordic" whites.
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A better answer lies in the combination of government responsiveness and civic spiritedness so splendidly on display this week in Texas.
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The soprano Amanda Woodbury, the mezzo-soprano Taylor Raven, the tenor Jack Swanson and the baritone Chris Kenney all sang splendidly.
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Who knew that the breast meat of a bird could melt in your mouth, and that it pairs splendidly with lychees?
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JOSHUA BARONE The pianist Emanuel Ax played works by Brahms, Ravel and Chopin splendidly at his recent recital at Carnegie Hall.
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Those lessons obviously paid off, because they came through splendidly with some magical images that will make your fingers itch for Instagram.
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Every morning, the old man in the quiet drama "Sin Alas" opens a little folding table outside his splendidly dilapidated grand building.
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Black Mountain Poems represents this spirit splendidly, binding the artists together in a shared passion for experimentation that defined Black Mountain College.
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Granted, life belongs to those who show up, and Mr. de Blasio did splendidly among those who bothered going to the polls.
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No matter how the sound engineers got to what was vibrating the air, these audio textures played and shifted splendidly and surprisingly.
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"A Cure for Wellness" defiantly and splendidly flouts the tenets of plausibility and coherence, which have never interested Mr. Verbinski very much.
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Tonight, since the Sun will be positioned directly opposite Mars, the planet will shine around 7 times more splendidly than Saturn, EarthSky reports.
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As editor of Newsweek and Time's international editions, he splendidly interpreted everything from the geopolitics of football to the consequences of Asia's rise.
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Kushner lives with Smith and their son, Remy, in Angelino Heights, a neighborhood of splendidly restored Victorians and crumbling firetraps perched above downtown.
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He fortified the defense and complemented Portland's ball-handlers and furious weakside action splendidly with some of the firmest picks in the league.
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Stalks of green onion, cherry tomatoes and a broken-down head of garlic crowd around, with splendidly fuming potatoes in a skillet alongside.
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A fellow go-it-alone type, Burton would've gotten along splendidly with Paul Theroux, one of the finest travel writers at work today.
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Unknown but bewitching pieces by Geminiano Giacomelli and Giuseppe Orlandini are placed back to back, each splendidly showcasing Ms. Hallenberg's seemingly effortless bravura.
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And given the association of Debussy and Stravinsky, it was fascinating to hear Debussy's "En blanc et noir" for piano duo, played splendidly.
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For Trump, it worked out splendidly: The team was 14-4 in its second season, but lost in the first round of the playoffs.
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No longer a threat, he again closed splendidly with a 67, but it still left him 16 strokes from the top of the leaderboard.
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Louise Bourgeois kept being, throughout my experience of encountering her here and there, odd and kooky, a rapscallion splendidly creating entire, surreal world views.
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Here is what we do know, though: they were both seen at a house in Los Feliz, and they appear to be getting along splendidly.
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Zabladowski's hocus-pocus tango with Dr. T, one of many splendidly strange musical numbers, anticipates the spell-casting duels of the comic book Dr. Strange.
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Like the colors of the rainbow, perhaps meaning in life is not something to be learned from books, even ones as splendidly informative as this.
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In governors' races, Democratic candidates who worry about climate change did splendidly from Maine to New Mexico, replacing Republicans who were generally pro-fossil fuel.
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The Harlan miners had been stiffed; their community had rallied around them splendidly; and Blackjewel's CEO, Jeff Hoops, looked like a classic fat-cat villain.
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But this year, with a spike in usage and his points per 36 minutes average at a career high, Gordon is balancing the two labels splendidly.
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But if you want to get to know a pair of absolutely heinous sisters, well — season 6 of Orange is the New Black will do splendidly.
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The actors, who besides Turturro include Michael K. Williams, Riz Ahmed, and Amara Karan, are all splendidly chosen and evidently eager to chew on the script.
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That leaves the phone itself looking remarkably unlike an LG flagship: it's lean, splendidly efficient, and for the first time, encased in an aluminum unibody shell.
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Of course, it worked out splendidly for her and now she has the ability to provide a different kind of upbringing for her own daughter, Rose.
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This splendidly crafted first installment covers 1957-67, the salad days of a whip-smart, arrogant, ambitious young man determined to forge himself as a writer.
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Miley Cyrus' Labor Day plans appear to include Kaitlynn Carter -- and the two of them seem to be working out splendidly since their rendezvous in Italy.
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J.P. On this splendidly dyspeptic song, Mr. Callinan, an Australian musician with a penchant for creative provocation, splits the difference between industrial clangor and disco slither.
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He may more ideally suit roles like Wagner's brooding Parsifal, which he sang splendidly last summer in a new production at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany.
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In this novel, she alights in Oregon in 1921, where a woman named Alice James stumbles off a sleeper train, gutshot, barely alive, and splendidly dressed.
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I think he, his daughter, and Parton (who would go on to make not one, but two more jokes about her breasts) would have gotten along splendidly.
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Pieces come splendidly arrayed — one roll I could not bring myself to try is heart-shaped — and often arrive amid a starburst of sauces on the plate.
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The movie is splendidly cast from top to bottom, starting with Kaluuya and extending to Keener and Whitford (along with an unnerving small role for Stephen Root).
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The Raptors were a hard-working team from the great north that captured the imagination of this splendidly multicultural region along the north shore of Lake Ontario.
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Mr. Greilsammer, who also plays standard fare like the complete Mozart piano concertos and sonatas splendidly, is hardly asserting that all recital programs should follow this model.
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It is splendidly hypocritical, of course: If Trump's agenda is as wonderful as he says, his loyal supporters should surely get to benefit from it as well.
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The splendidly bearded Victorians who sought to clarify the constitution held that in the modern world sovereignty, once settled in the monarch, rested with the crown in Parliament.
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Paige finally spills the beans after her parents catch her coming home from the premiere, which went splendidly, as she is introduced as the "new face in Hollywood".
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BRANTLEY Well, let's not forget the disappearing/reappearing elephant in this discussion: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which I think works quite splendidly on its own terms.
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They lost intentionally and insistently, and accumulated top draft picks, not the least the 6-foot-10 point guard Simmons and the splendidly talented big man Joel Embiid.
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The Spartans' star point guard, Cassius Winston, who had played so splendidly throughout the tournament for Michigan State, was held largely in check by Texas Tech's stifling defense.
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But while this can be a splendidly fantastical apocalyptic framework, with lots of room for fascinating world-building, in The Meg, that construct is set aside pretty rapidly.
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He sees the kingdom as a useful ally against Iran and Islamist extremism, an oil supplier that can keep prices low and a splendidly huge buyer of American weapons.
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The change would be a "punishment for states that had performed splendidly between 1971 and 2011 in stabilising their population," thundered P. Chidambaram, a former finance minister (and southerner).
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In the run-up to Christmas, he's been using Strava — the social network used by runners and cyclists to plan and track routes — to create some splendidly festive patters.
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It's the same kind of super fast and accurate fingerprint scanner Huawei uses on phones such as the Nexus 210P and it works splendidly for logging in to Windows.
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The answer, it turns out, was to splendidly hit the reset button, with Pedro Pascal moving to the center and a quartet of Cali Cartel kingpins filling the void.
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A splendidly undramatic beginning to policy normalization might be seen as reason to applaud Janet Yellen and her team — even enough to give her another term as Fed chair.
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Amid the drones, Krautrock jams, and splendidly obtuse Dan Higgs records, the label has quietly been belching forth thought-provoking metal releases that gnaw at the genre's outer fringes.
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Tumblr appreciation when I was 15, and five years later when I ended up in their city, 4000 miles away from where I'd grown up, we got on splendidly.
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Directed with imaginative economy by Taibi Magar (who oversaw the similarly and splendidly transgressive "Underground Railroad Game"), "Is God Is" may be pitched in a key of absurd exaggeration.
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So unified has this band become that they recorded the entire record — an impressive document, featuring nine complex, splendidly woven tunes — in a single day at the recording studio.
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The one who took best actress was Marie Mullen, who portrayed Maureen, a 40-year-old virgin shackled to her imperious, housebound mother, Mag (the splendidly slatternly Anna Manahan).
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The duchess of Cornwall, mother of Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Parker Bowles, became stepmother to Prince William and Prince Harry, who are said to along with her splendidly.
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It rallied splendidly in this final season -- including the searing revelation of child abuse that Elliot endured -- before succumbing to some of its old habits, basically, down the stretch.
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Watching "Poetic Justice" now, I was put in mind of Barry Jenkins's recent "If Beale Street Could Talk," and not only because Regina King is (splendidly) in both films.
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Dwarfed at five foot three by both man and beast, the actor boasts the weathered sinew of an Egon Schiele figure, but he is splendidly nimble on the move.
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Partly because the movie is so splendidly and completely absorbed in its characters and their milieu, it communicates much more than a quirky appreciation for old books and odd readers.
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She is addicted to fumetti (photo-illustrated comic books), with a special crush on the character called the White Sheik (the splendidly conceited Alberto Sordi in his first major role).
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With its notes of class consciousness, the film is "splendidly rich and wise," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, adding that its stars display "uncanny subtlety and tremendous soul."
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Thursday night had the feel of one of those pass-the-baton moments, the 211-year-old LeBron James ready to be supplanted by this splendidly talented 235-year-old.
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Through splendidly reproduced photographs, daguerreotypes, postcards and advertisements, Cuba – Havana in particular – is seen as a somewhat swinging, open-to-all cosmopolitan hotbed of entertainment, elegance, and boundless cultural production.
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Dafoe's Wake—who looks a bit like that splendidly bearded postman Van Gogh painted—is at first gruffly paternal, calling his apprentice "lad" and sternly ordering him to his various tasks.
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BlackBerry proper is making a comeback as a software vendor by focusing on security, and its latest quarterly earnings report suggests the pivot is working splendidly, exceeding the Streets earnings expectations.
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It splendidly blended the Southern college rock of the late 1980s (the dBs, R.E.M.) with shades of vintage soul, bluegrass, blues and more, rendering it all with omnivorous-bar-band acuity.
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According to Morgan's Law, Rick Atkinson has been doing first-rate journalism, enjoying critical and commercial success for three masterly books on World War II, all thoroughly researched and splendidly written.
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You would have to go back to Eleanor Steber—Mozart's Countess, Barber's Vanessa—to find an American soprano who combines refulgent vocal tone with innovative repertoire as splendidly as Renée Fleming .
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In these long, splendidly preposterous set pieces (one involving an extortion attempt that seems too outrageous to be true), you might notice why Mr. Cosby means so much to Mr. Chappelle.
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They compared neural activity in the splendidly long-lived daf-2 mutants with that of normal worms and saw that firing levels in the daf-2 animals were indeed very different.
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Santiago pitched splendidly into the sixth inning and Albert Pujols had three hits and drove in four runs as the Los Angeles Angels topped the Kansas City Royals 943-2 Monday.
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From angry baseball players talking strike to quarterback Colin Kaepernick to running back Le'Veon Bell to the N.B.A. players LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, professional athletes are splendidly outspoken.
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Every time a skater steps onto the ice, there's always a sense that something could go splendidly right or disastrously wrong — and we, as viewers, never know what we're going to get.
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Jamie Raskin, who is also on the Judiciary committee, argued the hearing went "splendidly" and that it gave Mueller an opportunity to educate the public about the evidence his team collected. Rep.
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That undulating painting and the splendidly vivacious "Fête Gloanec" ("Gloanec Feast"), also from 1888 and a feast for the eye make him, for me, a kind of magic realist avant la lettre.
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Their plans fit splendidly with those of George Howard Ferguson, the premier of Ontario at the time, who envisioned the northern part of the province as a cradle of industry and employment.
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It looks like it could be made of marble or glass — or perhaps a splendidly monochromatic version of a Fabergé egg — but it's just an average chicken egg, purchased from a local store.
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"Miki Dora," a tribute to a surfer of the same name, builds splendidly over a glowing, circular guitar riff and a melody whose split halves, mirroring each other, ebb and flow like waves.
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To look at Tim Tebow as he actually exists is to see not just one of the most splendidly weird athletes in recent memory but something more interesting and even sadder than that.
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Ms. Lamsma, who first worked with her countryman Mr. van Zweden in 2007, played splendidly, with crisp clarity and brightly radiant sound, conveying both the rhapsodic fervor and intriguing pensiveness of the music.
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The support from the tourism and public relations industries is such that those guests are treated splendidly, and often leave as true believers, ready to spread the gospel of Australia to the world.
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Having seen the finale, "Big Little Lies" pays off its various threads splendidly, joining two previous HBO miniseries -- "The Night Of" and the first season of "True Detective" -- as a tight, self-contained narrative.
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Since custom dictates that the job rotates between regions and it is now the turn of Eastern Europe, a region with many splendidly difficult names, you might think that the rule would be fulfilled.
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Durant, who will be a free agent at season's end and is rumored to cast covetous eyes at the splendidly terrible Knicks, badly strained his calf muscle and disappeared in an earlier playoff round.
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Though he sang some beloved arias by Donizetti and Gounod splendidly, this Peruvian artist may have been the most revealing during his first three (of seven!) encores: songs in Spanish, accompanying himself on guitar.
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But the 43-year-old has bounced back splendidly at the year's first Grand Slam, where he has not lost a set as he advanced to the fourth round for the second straight time.
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In his past work, which includes movies like Snowpiercer and The Host, Bong has proven that he can put his imagination to splendidly zany use and deliver biting social critique at the same time.
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The first track they dropped was of The Replacements' "Bastards of the Young" which sounded splendidly feminine and forlorn, and below is their video for their take on "Sex Beat" by LA's The Gun Club.
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Your correspondent travelled on a ship with four classes of travel, from a crowded and sweaty third-class compartment in the hold to a VIP cabin on the roof, occupied by a splendidly regal government minister.
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And one of them, assembled by the splendidly named John Colebrook-Robjent and bequeathed by him, in 2008, to the Natural History Museum's outpost at Tring, north-west of London, has recently been pressed into service.
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While some cooks might be inclined to inundate such meat in a heavy wine-based reduction, Mr. Lemnotis served the slow-cooked, splendidly tender shank with just a small amount of celery- and carrot-flavored jus.
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Lately the biggest galleries have jostled with one another to represent the estates of deceased artists, and last month David Zwirner has nabbed a heavyweight: Paul Klee, the splendidly cagey Swiss-German modernist and Bauhaus professor.
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From a plummeting death in which everyone is guilty of something, to a Prohibition-era story in which a woman stumbles off a sleeper train, gutshot, barely alive and splendidly dressed, there's a mystery for everyone.
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EVERY AFTERNOON AT sunset, at a point midway along the arrow-straight road between Amritsar and Lahore, rival squads of splendidly uniformed soldiers strut and stomp a 22003th-century British military drill known as Beating Retreat (pictured).
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" Appropriately, the retrospective, titled "Life Is a Dream" after a significant Ruiz movie it doesn't include, opens with "Time Regained" (1999), Ruiz's splendidly eccentric adaptation of the final volume of Marcel Proust's novel "Remembrance of Things Past.
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Well, I don't think I have a recipe I haven't included in a book, but I do have a recipe in Simply Nigella that is not in itself a Christmas recipe, but lends itself splendidly to the season.
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But then the notorious 2005 "Access Hollywood" video made it abundantly evident that Mr. Trump regarded himself as the gift, splendidly desirable to all women, and entitled, in the event of resistance, to various forms of sexual assault.
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Near it, you will find a one-man dynasty named Iizuka Rokansai (1890-1958), represented by seven basketry works whose variations in color, purpose, form and fineness make an especially breathtaking moment in a show splendidly full of them.
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" During a meeting with Baker's staff, Reagan biographer Edmund Morris writes, "Reagan who was, of course, completely unaware that they were launching a death watch on him, came in stimulated by the audience of his new staff and performed splendidly.
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And what McDermott achieves most splendidly is the hyper-realistic portrayal of the grim, often disgusting aspects of illness and death among the poor: the boils and pustules, the grotesquely swollen or missing limbs, the ubiquitous stink of human waste.
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Still, that mostly works to its advantage — many of the film's sets are bare-looking cam girl rooms, cheaply decorated by the various characters — and it seems nitpicky to focus on minor complaints when so much of the film works so splendidly.
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Allianz's asset management business, which includes bond fund manager PIMCO, also showed signs of strength, with third-party assets under management rising to 1.40 trillion euros from 1.36 billion euros a year earlier and Baete told investors that PIMCO was "running splendidly".
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI The tenor Javier Camarena, who sang splendidly at the Tucker gala (especially in a duet from Rossini's "Armida" with Ms. Meade), won the hearts of the audience by sharing a distressing personal story when he first appeared on stage at Carnegie.
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The minimalistic presentation would have been more effective if it had been more extreme, perhaps with no props at all and the characters appearing as if in a void — as BAM's recent premiere of The Loser by David Lang did so splendidly.
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And, of course, from the terraces it has the Turner view, splendidly captured in one of his paintings, "England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday," with its ladies in their finery, the gentlemen in their smartest and in the distance, the unchanged landscape.
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Clare Barron's exciting, nuanced group portrait of a competitive middle-school dance troupe excavated the raw terror and exhilaration of being 13, with a splendidly confused throng of adolescents embodied without cuteness or condescension by a cast of adults, directed by Lee Sunday Evans at Playwrights Horizons.
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When you think about dead companies walking, BlackBerry was clearly one that came to mind, but under the leadership of CEO John Chen, the company is actually making a comeback as a software company focused on security, and it's latest quarterly earnings report suggests the pivot is working splendidly.
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Spufford is the author of five previous books, all nonfiction, on subjects as varied as polar exploration (the splendidly titled " I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination "), his boyhood reading (" The Child That Books Built "), and the mid-twentieth-century optimism of the U.S.S.R. (" Red Plenty ").
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Anja Blomgren — now Anja Bloom, a famously imperious Swedish actress who bears more than a passing resemblance to Liv Ullmann — is living in splendidly Bergmanesque isolation in an unnamed Northeastern city when she receives a visit from Sandrino Nencini, the son and namesake of John Horne Burns's lover.
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Although the splendidly unreliable Diogenes Laertius says that Plato possessed no property other than what is mentioned in his will, he received a large sum of money from Dionysius I. Plato had a significant fund of money at his disposal (the exorbitant figure of 80 talents is mentioned).
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My own view is that both the president and the first lady have conducted themselves splendidly in the White House, managing the most difficult of tasks with apparent ease: projecting a grace that masked the ambition and the drive that took them, at early ages, to the pinnacle of American life.
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What a difference a game makes, not that it's necessarily been to the artist's benefit—Rosenfeld dislikes public attention, and while he's evidently a splendidly talented musician, compared to Brian Eno, it seems like he's going to remain more of an enigma than a mainstream-engaging ambassador for the progression of gaming soundtracks.
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Four excellent vocal soloists — the soprano Sarah Brailey, the mezzo-soprano Melissa Attebury, the tenor Vale Rideout and the bass-baritone Dashon Burton — sat in the first pew of the church until their moment came in the last movement, when they rose to face the audience, seated right before them, and sang splendidly.
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Showing outsiders to Islamic traditions how to navigate this text, as a literary and historical document, is an intimidating challenge, and no more splendidly intimidating book has appeared in the past year than " The Qur'ān and the Bible " (Yale), by Gabriel Said Reynolds, a professor of Islamic studies and theology at Notre Dame.
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She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1965 as Mimì and returned regularly to sing, among various roles, Adina in Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore," Liù in Puccini's "Turandot" and a new 1967 production of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" opposite the star tenor Franco Corelli (with whom she recorded the opera splendidly the next year).
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After greeting visitors splendidly with one of Bourdelle's most powerful works, "Centaure mourant" ("Dying Centaur," 1914), the show, Of Sound and Fury, pulls back the curtain on what went on during the creation of his monumental tribute to soldiers from the Tarn-et-Garonne departement who participated in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71).
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His first novel, "City of Bohane," was a tale of post-apocalyptic gang warfare, featuring a splendidly realized city in the west of Ireland populated by stylish hoodlums (women as well as men) pursuing operatic passions and bloody vendettas, and written in an invented Gaelic argot that was somehow effortlessly understandable as well as beautifully expressive.
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Not the traditional self-image of certain American and British jingoists who like to think of the United States as the City on the Hill or Britain as the sceptered isle splendidly aloof from the wicked Continent, but another kind of Anglo-American exception: the one shaped by World War II. The defeat of Germany and Japan resulted in a grand alliance, led by the United States, in the West and Asia.
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