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...grace to the tormented Zimans and at the same time triumph over the fateful malignity of the relentless cop, remains the central question, for Lelouch as for Hugo. But this is not, finally, a movie that encourages such abstract considerations. It is all shameless pace and jostle, a compendium of evil (war, suicide, poverty, injustice, exploitation) that yet asks us to believe that common decency (and a strong back) can eventually triumph over it. Maybe so, maybe not. But how pretty it is to believe it may. And how pleasurable it is to be absorbed into the bloodstream of this...
...fact, is a virtual museum of baseball memorabilia and paraphernalia, including a 5 1/2-ft.-long Louisville Slugger and a collection of antique fielders' gloves and catchers' masks. He is also the co-author, along with LIFE managing editor Daniel Okrent, of Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press; 1989). In that compendium, now considered a classic, the authors called Lou Gehrig's record of playing in 2,130 consecutive games during the 1920s and 1930s "unapproachable." Wulf does deserve credit for spotting Ripken's ability, if not his potential as an endurance champ, back in 1982, when the rookie was still...
...Greatest Show in the Galaxy," as the Barnum played by Crawford describes it. But it is the most Vegas-y show in town--a huge compendium of big shows from Broadway and Vegas. There are references to Crawford's earlier triumphs in Phantom and Barnum. As in Mystere, there are circus acts, liturgical and drum music, a giant climactic apparition. The Morlock battle is reminiscent of the pirate attack staged outside Treasure Island every evening. There's even a Siegfried & Roy joke, as well as the mandatory legerdemain and leggy chorines. See EFX and you've seen...
...company's vaults in Holland in 1993 and were released earlier this fall with the imprimatur of the temperamental pianist. The music represents the heart of his repertoire: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, Haydn, Weber, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. There is probably no better compendium of Richter...
Alice Stone's first feature-length documentary "She Lives to Ride" is a compendium of portraits of women who ride motorcycles, interspersed with archival footage of women who rode hot wheels in America's past. Stone reiterates in interviews that her main goal for this film was to show images of empowered women. She is entirely successful, and in addition she manages to take a political stance without being heavy-handed. The director skillfully chips away at the monolithic image of the female biker that constructs women bikers as crass, ugly, leather-clad renegade dykes, by portraying five different women...