Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crisis, people condense into their essential selves. O.J. Simpson was, essentially, a very great runner. That was how a bowlegged kid with rickets had escaped the slums where he was born, how a football superstar had become a national icon, always outrunning his obstacles, finding daylight where there wasn't any. "I'll tell you," he used to say, "my speed has always been my best weapon. So if I can't run away from whatever it is, I don't need to be there...
...SWAT team of assistants to promote the book. Most days she lunched at her desk on carrot and celery sticks. Says Doubleday associate publisher Marly Russoff: "It was always a shock for the first few times when you'd pass her in the hall. She's sort of an icon. But she didn't put a distance between herself and other people...
...part, it is changes in public opinion which have driven these issues. Americans have become less and less tolerant of smokers since the Environmental Protection Agency documented the dangers of second hand smoke. Cultural icon McDonald's, for example, recently banned smoking in its 1,400 company-owned restaurants and asked its franchisees to do the same...
...strolled through the Yard this weekend, I came upon a freshman dormitory wrapped entirely in plastic--clearly the work of the conceptualist artist and '70s icon, "Christo," who is better known for having enclosed a small Pacific island and the London Bridge entirely in Gore...
...thrillers. Needless to say, these attempts have been futile. The mere mention of her name in conjunction with any film is guaranteed to evoke chuckles if not full-fledged sighs. So, what's materials girl to do? Produce your own film in which you star as a Hollywood icon qua actress searching for legitimacy...