Word: paean
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...wispy body and white hair make him more grandfatherly than ever. But he comes across less as a sage or authorial god than as a matter-of-fact neighbor who just happens to have stuck around long enough to tell the story. It's in keeping with Wilder's paean to those mundane details of life that we take for granted--and that pass away all too fleetingly. "You know how it is," Newman says, leaping at the line as he does for no other in the play, "you're 21 or 22, and you make some decisions; then--whish...
...Williams, "This is a women's channel, so I'm going to have to ask for some recipes." Other programs include the upbeat talk show Pure Oxygen, the gritty real-life stories on Women and the Badge, reruns of Xena, Warrior Princess and, oddly, Love American Style, the 1970s paean to free love. Laybourne has not wavered in her mission to have a dialogue with women via the Internet. "Watching Oxygen is not just escaping but participating," she says. But do women want to work...
...burn a tiny effigy of India's Hindu Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Koul leaves to raise a family in the U.S. just as Kashmir plunges into crisis. And she can only watch as it blows apart. But this is not meant to be a political treatise; it's a paean to the past. Koul succeeds through sensuous detail in summoning the vanished Kashmir, the one of rainbow days and clear mountains and Hindus living peacefully with Muslims. The one worth preserving in memory...
Sheryl Crow's decision to make her fourth album, C'Mon, C'Mon, a paean to classic rock fits her career arc perfectly. Since her debut, Crow has deftly projected herself as a world-weary girl who likes a good time. On her previous album, 1998's brooding The Globe Sessions, the balance between sullen and saucy got out of whack. Here Crow tries to set things right by not bumming anybody out. Starting with the exuberant Steve McQueen, she launches into a relentless pursuit of good times and an echo of her first hit, singing, "I want to rock...
...that compassion usually takes the form of donating clothes to actors and agonizing over what to wear at the growing parade of awards shows. In his menswear collection for Emporio Armani in Milan last week, GIORGIO ARMANI took his designer social conscience a step further, even delivering a paean to the proletariat. "I want to pay homage to...the dignity of the workers with their simplicity and straightforwardness," he declared after a show he said was inspired by soldiers, factory workers and miners. The clothes displayed military details, with coats warm enough for working on the docks, if such laborers...