Word: paean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Phillips does take his middle class paean a little far sometimes. At one point, for example, he decries the absence of "real service with a genuine smile" in gas stations (as in the movie "Back to the Future," Phillips says bizarrely) as a problem with the 1980s...
...greatest of Broadway musicals was exuberantly revived there as a color- drenched, clownish yet passionate paean to a big-city zest and vitality that no longer exist, and probably never did. Faith Prince's Miss Adelaide was the year's musical highlight...
Westheimer panned the pop singer's book, "Erotica," a recently released, mylar-wrapped paean...
Children of Paradise: Shooting the Dream is an intricately layered celebration of the street shows Carne admired, a re-enactment of much of his movie, a backstage soap opera about his colleagues, a moral assessment of the choices they faced and a paean to their enduring impact. It starts by hemming spectators into the lobby of the Theatre de la Jeune Lune's gorgeous new $3 million home, where they are jostled by pickpockets and a woman on stilts during a raucous raree, full of the horseplay and menace of Carne's "street of many murders." Once the action moves...
...standard club volume, the fat bass line under this song does physically invade your body. Other audio tricks abound. "Bye Bye Baby," for instance, whips Madonna's voice into a studio-distorted baby doll. The album also features a foray "Deeper and Deeper" into discoland, as well as a paean to oral sex in "Where Life Begins." And if you ever wondered what "Justify My Love" would sound like over a house beat, it's here on "Waiting...