Word: nonpareil
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...Spears’ “Toxic” and I’ll show you someone whose asexuality might rival Morrissey’s without his sense of melody: as you would be quick to agree, the song’s electronic flourishes and dynamic vocal performance are nonpareil today, even if to some extent the music is a product of some sort of attempt to create the aforementioned Madonna for the ’00s. The song, however commercial, however studio-staff heavy, evades the curse of boredom...
Arguably the last totally terrific MGM musical, this 1960 adaptation of the Broadway hit preserves Judy Holliday's signature role as Ella the switchboard operator, who has all the answers for her callers but none for her lonely self. A nonpareil comedienne and prime show-tune belter, Holliday teams with Dean Martin in a delight that was her triumph and her elegy. She died at 43, of breast cancer...
Less-true words have rarely been spoken. The adventurer, played with noble, doomed optimism by Branagh, is a shoeshine-and-a-smile pitchman nonpareil, hawking his expedition to dowagers and businessmen, whose names he promises to plant on newfound territories. He even lends his name to an Antarctic-themed dog-food ad. He finds funding, a ship--the Endurance--and a crew, selling them on their chances despite the encroachment of World War I and a thickening ice pack. And after the ship gets trapped in the ice, he uses his dogged charisma to lead 27 freezing men as they...
...Connor's death resonated with so many largely because All in the Family, and his bigot nonpareil Archie, had a second life in reruns for decades. But TV rarely basks in this kind of glow, for two contradictory reasons. On the one hand, it's too accessible. Its masterpieces and its misfires are readily apparent to anyone with a remote; the same people who complain that "there's so much garbage on TV" can remain blissfully unexposed to the chaff that makes up most of the books published, movies screened and records released in a year. And on the other...
...rest of DiMaggio is rendered so vividly you almost want to look away. During his nonpareil career, DiMaggio learned to squeeze every drop of privilege out of his fame. Every nightclub operator in New York City understood that if DiMaggio came into his joint, it was good for business--which was why no one minded depositing the required couple of hundred into DiMaggio's account at the Bowery Savings Bank in exchange for the visit...