Word: paean
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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...
...snarling chorus. But the real shockers are the songs that leave Jagger’s musical mould fairly undisturbed, but take him into entirely uncharted lyrical waters. On any previous Jagger album, a song entitled “Goddess in the Doorway” would have been a paean to sex, beautiful women and more sex. Yet the title track of the new album is a troubled plea on which Jagger sounds, of all things, vulnerable. He sings, “Demons in the bedroom/Dogs are on the roof/I am in the basement/Looking for the truth...
...Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls, a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...
...Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls (Crown; 320 pages; $22), a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and her buddy Neely O'Hara, the libidinous, scheming singer. She wrote a plot outline before she died in 1974, and it is partly from this that romance author Lawrence has drawn the new novel...