Word: paean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FREAKS AND GEEKS (NBC) Television has rarely got adolescence as hilariously, soul-crushingly right as in this bittersweet paean to Midwestern childhood circa 1980. With a cast that actually looks and sounds like kids, not Gap models, Freaks takes teen-show stereotypes--nerd, burnout, clueless parent--and fleshes each out with humor and heart...
...this hasn't worked for the last six nights," Gene told the crowd, "But if we all concentrate really hard I bet we can get the Poop Ship to descend on Butt-F**k, Mass., or wherever we are." The next 15 minutes could only be described as a paean to the mothership of all things flatulent. It began as a trudging grind-core chant to the ship itself, progressed through a rendition of every fake farting noise that can be coaxed from the human body and came to a head with an extended lounge jazz breakdown. The Poop Ship...
DIED. BARBARA RASKIN, 63, author of the best-selling novel Hot Flashes (1987), a paean to female friendship; of complications after surgery; in Baltimore...
...several dimwitted Wellesley girls, sang a gratuitous but excellent song (by Jihwan Kim '02 and Rachel Eisenhaure '02) about "wanting a Harvard Man." (I hope no one from Wellesley saw the show.) Orchestra conductor Lembit Beecher '02 provided an even more gratuitous but very funny paean to gratuitous Broadway songs...
...several dimwitted Wellesley girls, sang a gratuitous but excellent song (by Jihwan Kim '02 and Rachel Eisenhaure '02) about "wanting a Harvard Man." (I hope no one from Wellesley saw the show.) Orchestra conductor Lembit Beecher '02 provided an even more gratuitous but very funny paean to gratuitous Broadway songs...