Word: icon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercial project, Wired has its problems. Belushi, the brilliant, volatile star of Saturday Night Live and films like National Lampoon's Animal House, has become a posthumous icon, a symbol of the raucous counterculture comedy that Saturday Night Live spearheaded in the '70s. But cinematic tales of drug abuse (Less Than Zero, Clean and Sober) have fizzled at the box office, and Wired is an especially downbeat example. What's more, with Belushi's work so vividly remembered (and still widely available in TV reruns), a movie re-creation might seem morbidly gratuitous, even by Hollywood standards...
...antiwar campaign had galvanized American youth. Beards shaved and locks shorn, they rushed by the thousands to become "Clean for Gene" workers in his crusade. The New York Senator's decision to enter the race split the peace movement. It also brought back to American politics an almost mystical icon of concern for the poor, the disenfranchised and the disaffected. "I think we can end the divisions within the United States, the violence," Kennedy declared from the rostrum at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, after winning the June 4 California primary. Moments later, he was dead...
...icon of the old capitalism was the backyard inventor (as nostalgically recalled in the movie "Tucker"), the undoubted emblem of the new capitalism is the silk-draped Wall Street arbitrageur. The latter schemes to make money from money, rather than making money from a product that would potentially benefit...
...basketball player who lives an unreal life as an athletic icon, North Carolina remains much more to Michael Jordan than just his home state or alma mater. In Chicago he is unable to attend his local Methodist church because of the commotion his presence creates. "But in Carolina I feel at ease. My real friends keep me straight -- they don't praise me or ask favors." With characteristic modesty, he adds, "I would probably be unreasonable without my friends and family to keep me in balance...
Like dry martinis and folk music, another icon of the 1960s is coming back: the big, long car. Among several 1989 models that General Motors unveiled last week was the new Buick Riviera, fully 11 in. longer than the 1988 version. The Cadillac division's new Fleetwood and DeVille models are as much as 9 in. longer than last year's cars, and they even sport a discreet version of their old tail fins...