Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: A majestic, misanthropic western finds the movies' flintiest icon musing on his own legend...
...scene that captured the news last week was of stately superlawyer Clark Clifford, that icon of Washington power brokering for five decades, clutching his fedora and lowering his well-worn face in a Manhattan courtroom. There he and his younger partner Robert Altman faced charges that they took millions in bribes to act as front men for the notorious Bank of Credit & Commerce International. But even more significant may be a legal move related to the grand jury indictments of last week: Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, the longtime head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and one of the most powerful...
...trying to raise--the meaning of fidelity, women's roles, and sexual morality in the 1990's as opposed to the 1950's--instead of on how insulted Ms. Wynette felt. Mrs. Clinton was only doing what all politicians do in an age of sound bites: use a cultural icon (like the typical country- western- song cheated 'n' mistreated patient wife) to make a point quickly and concisely...
What Newhouse has been unhappy about lately is the New Yorker magazine, which he bought for $168 million in 1985. In 1987 he touched off a staff insurrection when he ousted William Shawn, the 79-year-old icon who had ruled the legendary magazine for 35 years, to bring in his own editor, Robert Gottlieb, former president of Knopf publishers (another Newhouse enterprise). But the evolution he demanded of Gottlieb did not happen. The magazine lost at least $10 million last year, a significant sum even to Newhouse. Circulation, which had been boosted to 632,000 at considerable cost...
Last we saw, McCartney was still chewing a fingernail, worrying over a riff in the studio. He didn't look much like McCartney the rock icon. He was just a musician trying to get it right...