Word: icon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secretary, large and homely, and in her late '50s. "Nearly every night of the week she went to Arthur Murray's dancing classes. A framed, autographed portrait of Murray and his wife hung over her bed. It would be florid to say it hung there like a religious icon, but certainly the two secular persons filled Miss Lavore's heart with gratitude." The waltz, Miss Lavore had been known to say, is not as easy as it looks. There are other women--Josette, a fading Boston Brahmin, or Juanita, the daughter of a Lexington trainman and his hardworking wife...
...free faces expressing good will." Two of the dissidents, Kuznetsov and Dymshits, then left for Israel; the other three are expected to remain in the U.S. Moroz went to a parade in his honor in Philadelphia. Ukrainian groups, noted an Administration official, "looked at Moroz like some kind of icon, since they have been working for him so long...
...Austrian curiosity is the 800-year-old Geras Monastery, which offers a wide variety of art courses from icon painting to, yes, nude studies. One-week courses cost between $80 and $100; a double room with shower and breakfast, $18 a night...
...Musician (1915), are perhaps less impressive than this; yet they have about them a gaiety and precision of feeling that predicts art deco. Archipenko was a Russian émigré who arrived in Paris to work in 1908. As Rowell shows, he contrived to graft the tradition of the icon-with its deep frame and boxy space, and its applied incrustation in the form of halos, plaques, ex-votos and jewels fixed on the paint surface-to cubist sculpture. A work like Woman with a Fan (1914) combines both; it is almost as hieratic as a Russian saint. Yet nothing...
Facile condemnations of this sort of thing clearly won't do. It's hard to get a handle on the punk fascination with Nazism: Elvis Costello talks about emotional fascism, Johnny Rotten sings about Belsen, and the swastika is the dominant icon in punk life, but what does it all add up to? With Rotten, it may just be the shock value, as when he used to tell people he cut out his hemmorhoids with a razor. And just how is one supposed to react to something like Belsen, anyway...