Word: avatars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that I come here as a mongrel, perhaps an avatar of one of the two dogs in Cervantes' great tale, El colloquio de los perros, there is something incredibly thrilling about a variation that is now developing from the experience that I had known at the "U". When I arrived there in 1971, French was on the wane. Those of us who had learned the discipline in the old style, following the principle of immortal authors and timeless masterpieces, were subjecting what we read and saw to the force of theory that we pretended to practice. (Nineteen-sixty-eight came...
...single-gal sitcoms (Townies on ABC and Suddenly Susan on NBC, respectively). Meanwhile Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad will be renewing their fictional marriage in CBS's Cosby. Also returning to TV comedy with hopes of another big hit: Family Ties' Michael J. Fox, pop culture's perkiest avatar of the greed years. As the star of ABC's Spin City, Fox plays a deputy mayor who surely isn't making the six figures Alex Keaton would have hoped for. And expect to see thirtysomething's famed yuppies, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Steadman, doing a lot less brooding...
...fashion's Frank Lloyd Wright. In the more than 50 collections he has produced since 1968, Calvin Klein has remained Seventh Avenue's most devout modernist, its pre-eminent avatar of form-follows-function thinking. Each season his models have ambled down the runway in clothes created in quiet protest against fashion's outlandish theatricality. He has never dabbled in a world of beaded headgear or rubber cocktail dresses. "I've always believed in simplicity," Klein reflects. "I've never been one to see women in ruffles and all kinds of fanciful apparel. To me it's just silly...
Then in 1991, says Nancy, she and Mark attended a rally in Birch Run, Michigan, for the presidential campaign of America First Populist Party candidate and right-wing avatar James ("Bo") Gritz. The featured speaker was to be Gritz's vice-presidential running mate, Cyril Minett, but he failed to show. Participants, taking shelter from a pouring rain, began talking politics. Koernke started running through his theories and soon, says Nancy, "he was asked, you know, 'Get up there and talk.' So they pretty much pushed him up there, and he just kind of fell into it and started talking...
...quake's aftermath, shouldn't that make him a Good Guy? Is David (Jesse Means II), the priapic minister, really a symbol of black male virility or a sexual predator? Is Dewain (Harold Perrineau Jr.), the gang leader who is arrested for stealing two bottles of beer, an avatar of resistance or merely a common thief...