Word: icon
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...weightless; fire fighters could not bear to look down at the children in their arms. "Find out who did this," one told Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. "All that I have found are a baby's finger and an American flag." That may turn out to be a poignant, gruesome icon. How easy it was to assume that the attack must have come from outside. America may no longer be safe from imported terrorism, but we weren't supposed to grow it here at home...
Tommy Fawkes (Platt) is a comic who has been struggling through gigs in small venues for years. He is about to make his first run on the comedians' Big Time--Vegas. He follows in the over-sized footsteps of his father, played by comic icon Jerry Lewis, who is certainly not typecast as an aging...
Dustin Hoffman needn't worry, but football, baseball and advertising icon Bo Jackson wants to try acting. Jackson, who retired from football in 1990, said he realized during the baseball strike he wanted more time at home. He has signed with the William Morris agency but won't do sports roles. "I'm very serious about this," he said...
...news of her death was a bitter blow to many Texans, especially Mexican-American youths, for whom Selena had become both an icon and a role model. She was the embodiment of young, smart, hip, Mexican-American youth-wearing midriff-baring bustiers and boasting of a tight-knit family and a down-to-earth personality, a Madonna without the controversy. Hundreds of teenagers, many weeping, gathered at the scene of the shooting, while on the other side of town a long procession of cars passed the lower-middle-class home where Selena lived. Many fans placed balloons and notes...
Definitely, not the channels we're used to surfing. But within this context the television gains a new weight as a cultural icon, a mess of wires worthy of being considered along with the oil paints and bicycle seats of past art lore. It was not until the mid 1960s that artists began to use the commercially available portapak cammera as an artistic medium, and since then, the technical and conceptual sophistication of video art has increased dramatically. Gary Hill created his first video installation in 1974 and went on to become a prominent, internationally renowned video artist...