Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faithfull commands attention even before she opens her mouth. Having partied her way through the '60s on both coasts, she conjures an aura of terrific decadence. But Faithfull is as well an accomplished songwriter and her distinct voice has also made her an icon...
...system, Windows 95. And that allows Microsoft to invisibly weave some of the internal functions of the desktop computer with its online service. For instance, say you find a cool place on the Microsoft Network or the Internet. You can easily create a bookmark, which looks like a small icon, and drop it onto your computer's desktop. Later, if you're off-line and want to return to the place, just click on the bookmark and Windows 95 fires up the modem and connects to the cool site. To share your discovery, you can even E-mail the bookmark...
...good film. This one is best taken as a thing of bits and pieces, attitude and gestures. It's like a restaurant where you go for the food and go back for the atmosphere. Or for the waitress. Silverstone is a giddy delight, a beguiling performer and an icon for her generation. Catch Clueless quickly, though: in the MTV era, a generation lasts about a nanosecond...
Anger: She thought that I was treating her as less than an icon, but I had very carefully researched mu sorry on her as the mistress of Joseph P. Kennedy...
...Silverstone is the model of conspicuous consumption: wanting, having and wearing, in style. But Amy Heckerling ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High") succeeds in getting the viewer to like Cher and her friends even as she pokes fun at them. "Silverstone is a giddy delight, a beguiling performer and an icon for her generation," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "Catch "Clueless" quickly, though: in the MTV era, a generation lasts about a nanosecond...