Word: avatar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning of its 30th anniversary, Northside Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., was filled with more than 3,300 well-groomed parishioners and visitors. At the lectern, Republican Senator Jesse Helms, avatar of the Moral Majority, gazed out approvingly at the congregation. These were Helms' kind of people: religious, conservative, white. "We live in a time when secular humanism is demanding that our nation divest itself of religion," intoned Helms. "There is a cacophony of voices-political, news media, television, movies-mocking the very moral and spiritual base from which America came to be a great nation." The speech...
With some skill, Mondale has used the family issue to turn around attacks on him as an avatar of Big Government. He says that the more sinister threat of Big Brother comes from the Republicans' moral agenda−legislation to ban abortion and permit prayer in schools. "I want a future where Government watches out for you, not over you," he said...
...with the crusaders and polemicists of the New Right. These include Richard Viguerie, the guru of direct-mail fund raising and publisher of Conservative Digest, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Terry Dolan of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Their avatar is Senator Helms of North Carolina. But one of the New Right leaders concedes, "We could go with Jack Kemp. We like him. But we still have to see whether he has the guts...
...Only Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, The War of the Worlds, The Right Stuff, Strange Invaders, Eddie and the Cruisers and Plan 9 from Outer Space mixed and mismatched as if by a mad scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative coordinates, Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon...
Gary Hart embodies a lot of contradictions, and he knows it. He casts himself as the political avatar for younger Americans, yet he was born a decade before the baby boom, and turned 30 in the 1960s, just when people over 30 were not to be trusted. The presidential candidate whose campaign he managed in 1972, George McGovern, ran against the Democratic Establishment from the hard left; now Hart is running against the party Establishment, not exactly from the right or the left, but from off center...