Word: paean
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After Friedman’s paean to globalization, Sandel quipped, “I never thought that it would be possible to make President Summers look like a warm and fuzzy liberal...
...religious leaders, but if those leaders oppose them they tell them to get stuffed, basically." Still, says the ACL's Wallace, "politicians are realizing there's a discerning constituency out there in marginal seats - that the church has woken up." Peter Costello knows what Wallace means. After his paean to the Ten Commandments, the Liberals' deputy leader said he'd never received such a flood of mail: "It tells me that there are a lot of people who are interested and want to hear this." For the Coalition at least, the language of Christian values makes a lot of sense...
...other thing: Sideways is by far the year's best American movie. It's vigorous, gracious, tenderly attentive to Miles' and Jack's immense flaws--a paean to the durability of life's losers, which is to say most of us. This sunny, funny trip of a film would stamp a 2-hr. smile even on Miles' forlorn face...
...gotta go there to know there, the anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston wrote, an imperative never truer than in the case of weird, distant New Jersey and its modern day film paean. Like the place itself, Garden State’s reputation precedes it, the impressive talent of Braff and his beautiful trailer circling coolly underneath the hot summer air. But of course that reputation shouldn’t be a substitute for actually seeing it—and at least it deserves to be seen...
...tiresomely jokey style. But her book teems with amusing and appalling examples of mangled punctuation (starting with her title, which comes from a gag about a zoology entry on the panda), offers a lot of clear and helpful advice, and takes delightful detours into history. Example: her paean to Aldus Manutius the Elder, the 15th century Venetian printer who invented italics and first used the semicolon and whose babies, says Truss, she wishes she could have...