his retirement party featured many paeans for his long years of service to the company

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Valentine’s Day movies: The Love Witch Anna Biller’s feminist, campy homage to ’60s horror and love-potion plots is a gory paean to female intuition and a subversion of the archetype of the evil witch. Vogue, "These Are the Best Anti–Valentine’s Day Movies to Make You Very Glad You’re Single," 12 Feb. 2019

The stories of Better Worlds are not intended to be conflict-free utopias or Pollyanna-ish paeans about how tech will solve everything; many are set in societies where people face challenges, sometimes life-threatening ones. The Verge, "Better Worlds," 5 Dec. 2018

For her part, Layne—who will next lead Rashid Johnson’s Native Son, another paean to urban blackness—found James’s cool, quiet confidence inspiring. Tyler Mitchell, Vogue, "Meet Kiki Layne and Stephan James, the Breakout Stars of If Beale Street Could Talk," 11 Dec. 2018

Why a paean to French-American relations in the middle of a serious trade dispute between the two countries? Michael O’donnell, WSJ, "‘Sentinel’ Review: The New Colossus," 9 Nov. 2018

The composer Richard Wagner, whose anti-Semitic legacy has long been debated, created staggering operas, based on Old Norse mythology, that doubled as paeans to an imagined German past. Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, "The centuries-old history of Jewish “puppet master” conspiracy theories," 2 Nov. 2018

The unbuilt paean to the college game featured a towering, flat facade, upon which video would be broadcast at a scale big enough to turn the parking lot into drive-in, according to critic Witold Rybczynski. Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "Masterpieces of Robert Venturi, a postmodern architecture icon," 20 Sep. 2018

The 10-course tasting menu is a paean to the seasons: baby sweetfish the size of your pinky in summer, deep-fried croquettes made with sea turtle and lotus root in winter. Melinda Joe, Condé Nast Traveler, "34 Best Restaurants in Tokyo," 2 Mar. 2018

Guyville was a paean to a certain time in the life of a girl. Sarah Nardi, Chicago Reader, "The Bongo Room turns 25: A look back at Wicker Park's beloved brunch spot," 5 July 2018

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