Word: icon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eighth Congressional District race last fall. You can also bet that the rest of the candidates in the district are wondering the same thing, only with a slightly different ethnic twist, such as: What's a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to do when competing against another political icon...
...pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German government to clean up the country's image internationally, to be a quintessentially modern thing, stripped of gemutlich...
...face is familiar: the high-domed forehead, penetrating eyes and open, boyish smile. His image has been carried aloft like an icon by demonstrators in every major Western capital. His name has become a household word from Jerusalem to New York. Prime Ministers and Presidents, including Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, have pleaded with the Kremlin to cut short his 13-year sentence. For his sake, rabbis chained themselves to the fence of the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Most eloquent on his behalf has been his wife Avital, an Israeli citizen who has tirelessly campaigned for his release...
MENDELSSOHN: Five Symphonies; Three Overtures. Claudio Abbado conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs or CDs). Imagine the history of 19th century music if Felix Mendelssohn had been the great romantic icon instead of Beethoven. In place of egocentric storms there would be grace and lucidity; instead of anguish there would be serenity and inner peace. The masterpieces produced by such disparate composers as Brahms, Wagner and Mahler % under Beethoven's spell are justly prized, of course, but the romantics could have used a little less irascibility and more agreeability...
Cinematic icon Sylvester Stallone and Academy Award Winner Sally Field have been named the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man and Woman of the Year, Pudding officials announced last week...