Word: paean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second language. Certain words, like "fey" and "gossamer," become all-purpose modifiers, salt for his nouns--evervone in this book is at one time or another, "gossamer." But Sanchez's style doesn't come to full efflorescence till he describes the Stones' (or his own) women. Consider his paean to the physiognomy of Marianne Faithfull...
Nevertheless, Tallin's project for a Monument to the Third International, 1920, which would have topped out at 1,400 ft., dwarfed the Eiffel Tower and given the U.S.S.R. the greatest industrial metaphor in the world, was a euphoric paean to the marriage of "objective" material-girders and glass-with dialectics The idea of a necessary link between the nature of modern art and the aims of socialism was everywhere. "Each part of a futurist picture," Natan Altman argued, "acquires meaning only through the interaction of all the other parts"; its task was not to depict, but to explain...
...number of songs on Lodger take the album title's cue and present tales of travel. "Move On" is Bowie's paean to the vagrant life, his infinitely more urbane version of the Who's "Going Mobile." He uses his dramatic, declamatory singing style to good effect here as in "Heroes," reminding us that he's got one of the great pop voices of our day. "Red Sails" has obscure lyrics--witness...
...better than its predecessor. Thomas' prose seems firmer, his conclusions surer, his voice more resonant. He ranges farther and farther away from the laboratory, and devotes his attention to larger chunks of society as well as to bacteria and viruses. Taken together, his two books form an extended paean to this, the best of all possible worlds...
McPhee's piece was not so much a profile as a paean. At this "sort of farmhouse-inn that is neither farm nor inn," McPhee wrote, he had downed 20 to 30 of the best meals he had consumed anywhere, including France's most illustrious restaurants. The article, as if written by Brillat-Savarin and annotated by Asimov, recounted in minute and salivating detail Otto's preparation of dozens of dishes from his repertory of 600: coulibiac, the Russian hot fish pie; osso bucco; paella à la marinara; veal cordon bleu; fillet of grouper oursinade (with...