Word: paean
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Kitchen No. 1 is geometric and blindingly yellow, a paean to plastic modernity. It is the pride of a feverish...
...about women, with emotion as honest as Merle Haggard's but a bit more realistic. Austin men are not suicidal; when a woman leaves, they survive. Michael Murphey is the most articulate lyricist. His new album contains a tune called Holy Roller, a tongue-in-cheek paean to Bible Belt religion that obliquely speaks to the question of loss of faith. Without doubt, the quintessential country rocker is Jerry Jeff Walker. His songs tend to be unpretentious autobiographical celebrations. For Jerry Jeff, life is "running naked in that high-hill country rain," and his spontaneity is the antithesis...
...Within two hours of the resignation speech, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler went to the podium of the White House briefing room for the last time to praise the "energy" and "intelligence" of the startled reporters before him. Ziegler had become the unhappy symbol of White House deception, and his paean to the press drew a few titters. But there was none of the rancorous repartee that had marked so many White House briefings during the previous two years...
...when Miró produced his ravishing color-field paintings of the 1960s, like Blue II, the space was not neutral: it was the sky, swelling with blue, a historical and literary blue that has woven through modern French culture ever since Stephane Mallarme's paean to I'azur. "In my pictures there are tiny forms in vast empty spaces. Empty space, empty horizons, empty plains, everything that is stripped has always impressed...
...Leila Abou Seif, 31, a TV director who uses Western cinematic techniques to explore Egyptian themes. Her latest film is Egypt's favorite subject now: a moving paean to the wounded soldiers of the October...