Word: icon
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Eventually, every American icon must face the music and reveal everything, including the ugly truths. What better place to do this than on the stage, before an audience hungry and impatient for more information on the lives of the great and inaccessible. "Jackie: An American Life," currently at the Hasty Pudding Theater, is a laughography that chronicles the life and times of Jackie--from Bouvier to Kennedy to Jackie once again. Those who worship at the Altar of Jackie would be better off staying away from "Jackie: An American Life," and instead dote on those cherished Life magazines or testimonials...
...reserves of Saturday morning cartoon antics combined with the smug humor of Saturday Night Live. Though the action is struck in a loud key, the actors aren't obscured or overwhelmed. As Jackie, Lane Burgess is convincing and endearing. She succeeds at the difficult task of humanizing Jackie the icon, adding flesh and blood to the mysterious outline produced by pop culture. Roberta Kastelic is also memorable as Christina (Coke can-in-hand) Onasiss. Her character introduces a dark touch to the second half of the play as she terrorizes the stage with her curses accusations...
...have badly lost his debate against Gore. That's what three instant TV polls said. That's what a panel of debate coaches said. And worst of all for Kemp, that's what prominent Republicans said, on the airwaves and, more vehemently, in private. "A disaster," thundered right-wing icon Rush Limbaugh. "We need new leaders!" Many of the callers to his syndicated radio show expressed amazement and anger that Kemp passed up debate moderator Jim Lehrer's invitation to critique President Clinton's ethics, even on such public matters as the collection of FBI background files by the Clinton...
...feminist stereotypes), if only to prove the rules of its game: that films must be tailored to the appetites of young men; that women will go to male-oriented movies but men can't be dragged to women's pictures; that an actress's bloom as a box-office icon (Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster) can soon fade, while the appeal of male stars (Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman) stays solid for decades...
RELEASED. BARRY GOLDWATER, 87, conservative icon and former Arizona Senator; from a Phoenix hospital following treatment for a minor stroke...