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...realistic effects of his music. Wagnerians usually love it but followers of Schumann and Brahms are likely to find it crude and vulgar-"pleasure gas," a Viennese critic once called it. His mammoth tone poems-Till Eulenspiegel, Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra-show him to be a peerless master of orchestral effect and a wizardly painter of tone color. But Strauss was the last man in a 400-year-old tradition of tonality, and it was his misfortune to work alongside the atonalists without sharing any of their discoveries. Halfway into the present century, he was widely dismissed...
...fell at Covent Garden. Since then, on the strength of a repertory that consists more than two-thirds of Balanchine's own works, the company has been pronounced the most creative ballet group now dancing. In the lean, neoclassical style that is distinctly its own, it is indeed peerless...
...Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 62, legal-eagle wheeler-dealers of the early New Deal days, and James H. Rowe, 54, now a Washington law partner of Corcoran's and a longtime Johnson political adviser. Spanning the Truman and Kennedy administrations is Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, 56, a peerless behind-the-scenes political troubleshooter who is as close to Johnson as he was to Truman and a bit closer than he was to Kennedy. And then there is Lawyer Abe Fortas, 53, a New Deal brain-truster who served as F.D.R.'s Under Secretary of the Interior...
...JONES. A peerless comic novel of two centuries ago has been pinched, patted, fondled and smacked into sidesplittingly funny life by Director Tony Richardson. As the hero. Albert Finney makes Olde England jolly indeed, and Hugh Griffith richly earns bed and bawd in a rakehell portrayal of Squire Western...
...JONES. A peerless comic novel of two centuries ago has been pinched, patted, fondled and smacked into sidesplittingly funny life by Director Tony Richardson. As the hero, Albert Finney makes Olde England jolly indeed, and Hugh Griffith richly earns bed and bawd in a rakehell portrayal of Squire Western...