Word: paean
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...trusts their taste better than his own, though he has decided to wear his white Chicago Bears sweater, one of his favorites, for the final visitation. For the service, he's compiled a tape of songs, starting with the Beatles' Let It Be and ending with Eric Clapton's paean to his dead son, Tears in Heaven, saying, "They remind me of when I was young." He's considering adding one of his mother's favorite Vince Gill songs, Go Rest High on That Mountain. Bruce has decided to be cremated, following the wake and memorial service. "The cemeteries...
...Bourbon Street in New Orleans along with the 24-hour booze; a group of lawyers in Little Rock, Ark., takes it occasionally, as does a cheerleading captain at a Miami high school. The drug is also showing up in hip-hop circles. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony raps a paean to it on its latest album: "Oh, man, I don't even f___ with the weed no more...
...role. But the music, too, is simply a bittersweet tribute to modern and everyday insecurities; it's as if Anderson feels so intensely what it is to be alive today that he can't help but burst into song. Which is ultimately what Magnolia proves to be: a lyrical paean to the horrible-beautiful process of living. It's an epic, yes, but one of human proportions, and in this reincarnate form, specific to its time and place both materially and stylistically, it's also a truly millennial film...
...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...