Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert Cray. "It's a very real, emotional music. If Isaac has a true love for the music, he has to be very careful about its legacy and not intentionally or unintentionally, five years down the road, create the impression that the Blues Brothers are the best-known icon of the blues...
...Last Action Hero, Junior, True Lies) that defiled the great stone totem that is Schwarzenegger, Eraser is a return to basics. The film, which had a troubled history and a humongous reported price tag of $120 million, could have been a fiasco; instead, it smartly remythologizes this indispensable Hollywood icon...
Free cable is, after all, the force that binds this movie together. In the world of "The Cable Guy," Carey, the giver of cable, becomes the brazen icon of a false god, pulling a motley crew of followers under his spell and making them cheer his vaguely pornographic karaoke rendition of "Somebody to Love...
...root, it is this role that soon-to-be-ex-Senator Bob Dole most aspires to play: the self-effacing, quietly powerful small-town man from Main Street who outwits the cosmopolitan, slick-talking snob from the fleshpots. And why not? There is, after all, no more enduring American icon...
...very quickly learn they're made up of flesh and blood, and they have their own flaws as well," Brokaw says. "I remember seeing Dwight Eisenhower--this great icon of American life--and he looked like my grandfather...