Word: icon
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Ensconced as a national icon of exhaustion, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine will appear on the cover of Newsweek magazine scheduled to hit newsstands today...
...testimony from Nicole Brown Simpson's sister Denise. Last weekend, jurors lived in close quarters with dramatic memories of Denise's ragged anger. Her agitated testimony offered a tympany of accusations that struck blow after blow at the base of O.J. Simpson's carefully wrought image as a celebrity icon, athletic role model and loving husband. By the time she stepped from the stand, she left behind her the overwhelming impression that it had been a very bad week for the defense...
...much of Eastern Europe it is Jews themselves who need to investigate their heritage. In Moscow, Maureen Greenwood, a project coordinator for an American Jewish human-rights organization, described a U.S. rabbi's shock upon finding a Russian Orthodox icon in a Jewish family's living room. ``The reason,'' says Greenwood, ``is that all religion was so repressed. Jews and Christians were all in the same boat. People simply want to satisfy their religious longings...
...early 1980s -- before the Internet became a cultural icon -- students at Carnegie Mellon University wired photosensors to the indicator lights on a Coke machine, programmed a computer to count the cans as they were dispensed, and connected the whole contraption to the network. By typing the command finger coke cs.cmu.edu, anybody with an Internet account at Carnegie Mellon -- or anywhere else -- could tell at a glance how many cans were left...
Well, maybe not a witch, but some species of ethereal being. A dark angel, perhaps. Though at 23 Ryder is a prime icon of the post-teen set -- more than one writer has called twentysomethings the Winona Generation -- there is a quality in her dark, Walter Keane-eyed beauty that pulls her out of her time and into the crinolined past. No modern actress has her watchfulness, her fiery reticence, her gift of girlish blush and fluster. Nobody else even tries to monitor the intelligent, expectant heart beating in a virgin's breast. The true Ryder heroine is a gentle...