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EARL WILD TOURED WITH, AND THEN REcorded, three synoptic all-Liszt programs, called "The Poet," "The Transcriber," "The Virtuoso" -- three apt descriptions for Wild himself. He's a throwback to the Golden Age pianists, exulting in the sensuality of Romanticism and the vertiginous, almost orchestral possibilities of the piano. Two CDs demonstrate his superb musicianship and rare virtuosity: Chopin: 4 Ballades -- 4 Scherzi and Earl Wild Plays His Transcriptions of Gershwin (Chesky Records). Chopin's works vary widely in mood and tempo, yet Wild sustains the long singing lines that provide their pulse and shape. That singing -- with wit, warmth...
Illness and disease remained in constant residence. Tuberculosis was endemic, and so were scabrous skin diseases of every kind: abscesses, cankers, scrofula, tumors, eczema and erysipelas. In a throwback to biblical times, lepers constituted a class of pariahs living on the outskirts of villages and cities. Constant famine, rotten flour and vitamin deficiencies afflicted huge segments of society with blindness, goiter, paralysis and bone malformations that created hunchbacks and cripples. A man was lucky to survive 30, and 50 was a ripe old age. Most women, many of them succumbing to the ravages of childbirth, lived less than 30 years...
...Sunday-night entry, displays all the earmarks that TV critics have grown to know and hate: broad gags, crass caricatures and a nervy avoidance of sentimentality. The show, set in a kooky hospital, has no pretensions to realism, or even to common sense, and the jokes seem a quaint throwback to an earlier comedy era ("You can call me a doubting Thomas -- or you can call me Marlo Thomas . . ."). What makes it work is the zingy performances by Christine Ebersole (as feisty but lovable Nurse Gunn) and Kevin Conroy (as a conceited surgeon), two pros who tackle this fluff...
Milosevic is a throwback to the kind of violent nationalism that regularly rearranged Europe's borders in centuries past. But he is also a harbinger of what may happen elsewhere as the constraints of communism give way to long- suppressed emotions. His animating passion seems to be power, first and foremost, with national pride as a useful adjunct. Though a proven master of the art of communist careermaking, Milosevic has never been a slave to ideology. "All this talk of his Bolshevism is rubbish," says Slavoljub Djukic, author of a critical biography of Milosevic titled How the Leader Happened, which...
Before rain washed the sidewalk outside Au Bon Pain this week, an artist covered the bricks with a chalk portrait of John Lennon. It was a throwback, perhaps, to the Au Bon Pain that Extension School Student Jordan R. Winer remembers...