Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leading you know not where. This is the Oasis, a riot of trees where cast members will point you toward the greenery so you can see a snoozing two-toed sloth in one tree, a couple of military macaws skirmishing in another. Then you reach the park's central icon, the Tree of Life, a 145-ft.-high broccoli stalk--actually an oil rig festooned with fake bark and 103,000 artificial leaves, each attached by hand--into which 325 creatures have been artfully carved. When the family breaks up to go exploring, you'll be tempted to say, "Meet...
...familiar sight in lacrosse highlight films and an icon for young defensemen...
...similar case, Byron de la Beckwith had escaped punishment for the 1963 murder of civil rights icon Medgar Evers. But he was finally convicted in 1994 after leaked documents revealed that the commission may have blocked civil rights sympathizers from sitting on his jury. Dahmer's family, which has battled for years to bring all his killers to justice, hopes that the records released last week will contain evidence that could lead to Bowers' retrial...
...just hope JIM CARREY thinks that's Pamela Anderson cozying up to ED BURNS at the premiere of No Looking Back. The rubber-faced funnyman and LAUREN HOLLY, now as blond as the Baywatch icon, were thought to be off-again (at least that's what their divorce papers say), but the duo, photographed during happier times at right, were reportedly spotted together at a birthday bash in Beverly Hills on a recent Saturday. The next Wednesday, Holly was back in the arms of the Other Man--the writer-director whose charms are widely believed to have wooed her away...
...enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like that of a wind up doll. Recalling the tradition of black minstrelsy, the key also suggests a brutally-planed pair of scissors--a silhouette cutter's tool craftily inscribed within the silhouette. This image alone might be taken as an icon for the controversy surrounding Walker's work, as viewers question whether her scissors puncture negative racial stereotypes or simply stab blacks in the back...