Word: icon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grant Wood at the Whitney: afresh look at an American icon...
...tremendous believability with his audiences. Still, the crowds studied him carefully, trying to judge his competence. Is this space hero with the soapy talk about traditional values smart enough, they seemed to be asking, shrewd enough, to run the country? Will this man who has become almost a national icon, if unmasked, turn out to be an earnest bore...
With United States finally complete, Anderson will next turn her critical eye to another technological icon, television. "People don't know what to do with TV," she says. "It's used as a way to relax and be entertained, but I think Americans are insulted by the level of their TV." Characteristically, Anderson is equally leery of the cultural upholstery on British television ("It's creepy and dangerous"). But before she can begin work on her new opus, she will have to buy a television set, something she has so far resisted. "When...
...stubborn determination in the face of the repression he has struggled against for so long. The unique status of the physicist in international nuclear relations brought Sakharov into the political arena: but it has been his own dedication and hunger to see justice Jone that have made him an icon of the human rights cause...
...operate than any other desktop computer. The operator simply takes the mouse in hand, and a little black arrow springs to life on the screen. That arrow can then be directed toward the postage stamp-size pictures lining the bottom of the screen. These are Lisa's "icons," graphic symbols representing such everyday objects as a trash can, a clipboard, file folders, a calculator, a battery-operated clock. By pointing the arrow at an icon and pressing the button on the mouse, the user triggers an action. He might use the trash can to discard the first draft...