Patriotic Concert Features Vaporous Singer...AND SO MUCH MORE!
We here at The Detritus Review are aware that titles are a
difficult thing, and that for music reviews the critic may not
even supply the title, leaving that job for an editor with an
impeccable sense of the riveting attention-grabber.  They are
often innocuous and focus on some sort elementary word play, or
painfully point out the obvious (a sort of 5-word abstract).
But, this gem, from the Omaha World-Herald deserves some special
recognition.  Review: Symphony puts ‘pow’ in patriotic program
Where to start. First, the phraseology of "puts the ___ in ___"
implies a certain kind of pun.  For example -- "...puts the fun
back in fundamentalism."   figure delicious pun: Wait, there's
not hyphen in the word "adolt".  Get it?  Clever, I know.  So,
why the use of the word "pow"? Whose letters neither appear in
"patriotic" nor "program". Yes, you have the alliterative
quality of the 'p', but is that really enough? I say no!  Surely
then, there music b