Word: paean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conga line forms midway through the Beach Boys' second encore, a lilting paean to puberty called California Girls. By the time the song ends, the line has grown to 5,000 teen-agers and is snaking all over Kansas City, Mo. 's Arrowhead Stadium. Turning toward the stage, the churning serpent finds a lion's voice: "Chicago, Chicago!" As 35,000 spectators pick up the chant, seven young men amble onstage to join the Beach Boys for a socko finale. They are the group known as Chicago. With five guitarists, two drummers and a three-piece brass...
...color, in particular, is taxingly subtle. It does not woo the eye, but it does present an unexpectedly wide range of situations, from a slow, impalpable, pearly shimmer of greens and grays to the sharp, exhilarating flicker and reversal of green against red against blue in such paintings as Paean...
...Your paean to the White House photographer [March 3] overlooks an insidious aspect of the operation Mr. Kennedy runs: news management...
...their own quality but on the richness of their subjects. Arthur Rubinstein is a full bounty, as much a great pianist as a cosmic romantic force. Unhappily, French Co-Director François Reichenbach is a sloppy, indiscriminate documentarian. His last contribution was the scrambled paean to the glories of rock culture, The Medicine Ball Caravan (1971). The Rubinstein film betrays the same makeshift style, the same kind of groupie's reverence. It does not serve Rubinstein well, but serving him at all makes the film notable...
...first one is a paean to adultery, and a clever rationalization of the violability of the seventh commandment. It's not much else, but the sermons are supposed to get better as the month goes on. The second begins with an examination of some New Testament miracles and unfolds into an elegant defense of evil as "essential to a Creation of differentiated particulars." But again, he ends with apostasy, cursing his "docile suburban flock...