Word: paean
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...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...
...fell apart before she entered into her current agreement with Louise's Bakery in Baltimore. But probably her biggest mistake was not to have an attorney from the get-go. Allen had no idea that the name she attempted to trademark for her business--Chocolate Goddess Brownies & Sweets, a paean to the persona Allen adopts to give chocolate demonstrations--was already taken. Now she has an attorney who has helped her apply to use the name Silver Goddess Brownies & Sweets to operate her business, launched a month ago, in Maryland...
...honor include poetry sites, a "Hindu shrine" site, even a site dedicated to her eyes (which she wants to leave to science when she dies). "She deserves to be pampered with roses, smothered with caresses; iridescent as the moon, she is life, body, soul and, yes, heart," reads one paean from a fan. For billions more, from Kabul to Kuala Lumpur, "Ash" is the most recognized female face in Bollywood, as the Indian film industry (the world's largest) is widely known. Now she is about to make a breakthrough in the West. This spring the 30-year-old former...
...consumers who will be turned off by this," says Omwando. Google is also late to the game. Almost two-thirds of all Internet users in Europe , for instance, already have two or more e-mail addresses. With an IPO coming soon, Google will hope users give it a try. Paean From The Penitentiary W hat was Mikhail Khodorkovsky thinking? The former chief executive of Russia's oil giant Yukos, in jail since last October on tax evasion and fraud charges, wrote an essay for a Moscow newspaper, apologizing for becoming rich instead of safeguarding liberal values, and praising President Vladimir...