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DIED. GEORGE WALLACE, 79, four-term Alabama Governor, four-time presidential hopeful and political penitent nonpareil who was first elected in 1962 on a platform of segregation forever but later renounced his divisive rhetoric; in Montgomery, Ala. (See NATION...
...team to the first of his unprecedented three world championships, who in a sport accustomed to the 1-0 shutout scored an astonishing 1,281 goals. For my money, if you have to pick the one best athlete of all time, it's Brazil's nonpareil Pele, the Michael Jordan of soccer...
...Reiner's elegant, pastoral reading of Brahms' Symphony No. 2 and the lyrical and propulsive performance of Chopin's Concerto No. 1 by Bruno Walter and Arthur Rubinstein, who, under contract to different labels, were never permitted to record together. There are David Oistrakh and Dimitri Mitropoulos in their nonpareil, rivetingly intense U.S. debut of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, and memorable farewells like the thrilling immolation scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung in 1952 with Walter and Kirsten Flagstad in her last appearance with the Philharmonic, which had the audience applauding for 21 minutes. This set will have you applauding...
Today Hollywood so dominates the film landscape that Americans may think they can ignore work from abroad, whether of the 1990s or the 1890s. Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a six-hour TV history of European silent film by the nonpareil team of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, could upend that notion. Faster than a speeding Twister, more sweeping than Braveheart and, in its insistence on Europe's artistic superiority, as contentious as an Oliver Stone screed, Cinema Europe will pry open the viewer's eyes and mind. It is airing five nights this week on cable's Turner Classic...
...Cubans, led by nonpareil heavyweight Felix Savon, will probably be the big winners, but they'll have to contend with the former Eastern Bloc teams (Romania, Bulgaria and Russia) that took half the gold medals at the last world championships. Americans can look for big things from stylish light heavyweight Antonio Tarver...