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...number of songs on Lodger take the album title's cue and present tales of travel. "Move On" is Bowie's paean to the vagrant life, his infinitely more urbane version of the Who's "Going Mobile." He uses his dramatic, declamatory singing style to good effect here as in "Heroes," reminding us that he's got one of the great pop voices of our day. "Red Sails" has obscure lyrics--witness...
...better than its predecessor. Thomas' prose seems firmer, his conclusions surer, his voice more resonant. He ranges farther and farther away from the laboratory, and devotes his attention to larger chunks of society as well as to bacteria and viruses. Taken together, his two books form an extended paean to this, the best of all possible worlds...
McPhee's piece was not so much a profile as a paean. At this "sort of farmhouse-inn that is neither farm nor inn," McPhee wrote, he had downed 20 to 30 of the best meals he had consumed anywhere, including France's most illustrious restaurants. The article, as if written by Brillat-Savarin and annotated by Asimov, recounted in minute and salivating detail Otto's preparation of dozens of dishes from his repertory of 600: coulibiac, the Russian hot fish pie; osso bucco; paella à la marinara; veal cordon bleu; fillet of grouper oursinade (with...
Happily, it still does. The Kirkland House Drama Society's current production of Frank Loesser's How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, an early-'60s paean to the knucklehead glory of girl-watching and "getting ahead," recreates the innocence of that time with an enjoyable, if sometimes unfocused, energy. Moving through the standard '60s-musical formula of boy-meets-girl, boy-and-girl-fall-in-love, boy-and-girl-fall-out-of-love, and boy-beats-world-and-marries-girl -- all to the accompaniment of Loesser's slick score -- the Kirkland House cast manages to create...
...walk around Emerson and look up carefully at the eaves you will see the inscription, "What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?" This inscription plaque was originally going to bear some sort of fruity paean to the excellence of man but President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, decided that he was going to teach the faculty a lesson in humility and he ordered that the less than exuberant quotation from Job be chiseled...