Word: paeans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Dali-esque double guitar and harp guitars, but most of the instruments are less interesting to look at. The commentaries and the main angle of the room focus on the history of the instrument and the way in which it entered American mainstream music. The third gallery, a paean to the electric guitar, is dark except for the fluorescent lights over the instruments. It has a large screen repeating a 13-minute sequence of great rock moments, videos on the making of the instruments and collectors' items like John Lennon's first guitar, a guitar with six sets of strings...
...Sometimes you find yourself liking songs you think you shouldn't. That's the case with "The Selfishness in Man," a track from one of George Jones' several tribute albums, this one a paean to Leon Payne, the blind Texas singer-songwriter best known for the Jim Reeves hit "I Love You Because...
...differences between them have never seemed more stark: Tuesday night's debate was, ultimately, a paean to days gone by, when the GOP actually kept out of people's personal lives and the Democrats doled out federal funding without a second thought. St. Louis inspired Bush and Gore to abandon the middle ground altogether. Bush wants a teensy, tiny federal government, where meetings are short and there's plenty of time for jogging. Gore envisions federal tentacles creeping into every last aspect of public life, including education, health care and gun control...
...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...