Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Businessmen solicit prostitutes. Muggers attack worshipers as they pray. Homeless mothers sleep in pews. Pilferers raid donation boxes. One man senselessly destroys a revered icon...
...years without gaining much advantage. His first two solo albums, objects of great expectation and grand promotion, took a commercial pummeling. He continues to be the front man and guiding light of the Rolling Stones. If he has any identity apart from that, it is as a pop icon, one who wears his accumulating years and history with panache -- an Annie Leibovitz picture of Dorian Gray. No wonder, on this third solo attempt, he can put so much weight and irony into these lines from I've Been Lonely for So Long: "Everybody's throwin' rocks in my bed/ Just...
Catching his breath after a rollicking version of Twenty Flight Rock, the aging icon jokes, "I'm too pooped to pop, man." But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past. After decades of distancing himself from the Beatles, he has in recent years embraced the music that made him famous, and on Up Close he cheerfully continues that trend. His renditions of Lennon-McCartney classics like Fixing a Hole, Lady Madonna and Michelle are enlivened by the unabashed enthusiasm of his band. And McCartney has never rocked harder than on the extended version...
...Chevy Chase is the American comic icon," said Fenmore. "He has always been a complete part of the American comic imagination...
Celebrity Performers: They've got Eddie Andelman. We've got Elizabeth Shue. Eddie's a local sports radio talk show host. He doesn't have the national recognition of Shue (who could forget her moving performance in "Adventures in Babysitting"), but he's close to a cultural icon in these parts. Shue's a personal favorite, but Eddie's simply too big. Celebrity performers, score one for the Huskies...