Word: avatars
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...Right-Winger David Funderburk, 42, a former Reagan Administration Ambassador to Rumania who resigned last year, charging that the State Department was too soft on the Communist country. Funderburk's campaign is being run by the state's National Congressional Club, which previously engineered the elections of Conservative Avatar Jesse Helms and his colleague John East, who is leaving the Senate after just one term because of a thyroid disorder. The N.C.C. has launched the same no-holds-barred polemical attack on Broyhill that it previously employed against Democrats...
Shortly afterward the young singer-composer would release four more albums and become the paradigm of the culture he had helped to create: part shaman, part avatar and, as he was to suggest in a later song, part jokerman too. The cumulative heat and emotional pressure became too much, even for a stoker like Dylan. He wracked himself up in a 1966 motorcycle accident and caught a quick glimpse of a fast and nasty...
Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes-of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed...
...obvious jabs at the middle class lifestyle, but Huizenga invests something more into his character, whose name, after all, evokes mystical rivers of the East. The sequence ends, not insignificantly, with Glenn sitting on his stoop, lost in thought, with the moon over his shoulder. Is he a generic avatar or deep, complex character? Ganges becomes both as Huizenga puts him through various scenarios that straddle the border between reality and fantasy...
...distance from the action, as if he were watching the show and himself from some Olympian aerie, where it was always cool. Tynan writes of Carson appraising the other guests at a party, "his eyes twinkling like icicles." It was what we know, from Carson's avatar Letterman, as Midwestern cool: ingratiating but withholding...