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...Whoever won would jump ahead in the Spanish league title hunt, as the teams were tied in the league standings going into the game. The game would also pit an in-form Ronaldo—a player that cost Real a $130 million transfer fee alone—against Barcelona??s current golden boy, Lionel Messi, who was just coming off a four-goal performance against English powerhouse Arsenal Football Club...
...wanted what every traveler wants: to shed the dorky veneer of American-ness and dissolve easily, like sugar in coffee, into the city. We had ducked out of the rain into Mesón del Café, a century-old coffeeshop hidden within the narrow, winding streets of Barcelona??s Barri...
...Birt, and by the comedic tag team of Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell, who play Frost’s academic “crack investigators” with relish. The only failure of the film here is Rebecca Hall (last seen actually emoting in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona??), whose character, Caroline Cushing, is not only an accessory to Sheen’s playboy persona but to the film as well. One is hard pressed to find any non-expository dialogue escaping her lips—a rare misstep in an otherwise flawless film.The transition from stage...
BARCELONA, Spain — On the first night of my summer study abroad program, our teaching fellow led 15 jet-lagged Harvard students through the narrow streets of Barcelona??s Old City to a restaurant off La Rambla, the city’s touristy yet iconic nucleus, which slices through the original part of the city. Brought to a long table on the roof deck of the short building, we met our professor and his family. The sun was setting, the wine flowed freely, and it felt like we could have been in the countryside rather than...
...BARCELONA??Before leaving for Spain, I brushed up on my Spanish by reviewing the nuances of idiomatic expressions and practicing my accent, hoping for a shot at being mistaken for a local, or at least, a Spanish speaker. My preparation however, fell far short of my goal. To fool the locals here would require learning an entirely different language—Catalán.At first there was no problem: The hospital staff with whom I worked always spoke Castellan—Iberian Spanish—and the patients would in turn respond in Castellan. Everyone accommodated and willingly...