Word: paean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Granted it was too sanctimonious and too long, but Ken Burns' 18-hour paean to the national pastime was a gigantic achievement nonetheless, packed with history, nostalgia and, yes, poetry. Burns (The Civil War) was too much in love with his subject, but could anyone else have got this made, or made it so well...
...during the beauty contest's final, brief Q&A that Miss Alabama, 21, performed her most moving feat. She answered a question. Her voice was a bit fluty and her consonants soft, but the college junior clearly understood Regis Philbin's query about self- realization; and her reply, a paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf in one ear and has only 5% hearing in the other, won the 74th annual Miss America Pageant, she didn't realize it until her runner-up pointed to her. Then she burst into...
...both ordinary and profound. With more than 30 issues published in 12 years, Cometbus is considered a classic in this subterranean world. Like many zines, it is filled with words. Issue No. 30, for instance, is 82 pages of pure print, sometimes crawling off the page. It contains this paean to punk love: "Punk rock love is . . . looking at her tattoos while she's asleep. Taking showers together. Playing checkers with cigarette butts. Watching her band play . . . Both of you having the same ex-girlfriend . . . Her giving you 10 rolls of duct tape for your birthday. Her beating up skinheads...
This is a low business, exploiting a musician's notoriety and an audience's star lust. It has reached a nadir of sorts with Backbeat, a homoerotic paean to Stuart Sutcliffe (Stephen Dorff), the fifth Beatle. Or maybe the sixth, if you count pre-Ringo drummer Pete Best and leave out George Martin and Murray...
Sports Illustrated's annual display of female pulchritude is a paean to youthfulness and its endless possibilities. This is consistent with the magazine's essential function, which is to capture and immortalize athletes in their prime...