Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rockefeller Center, a Tokyo conglomerate has made a bid for the landmark across the street: Saks Fifth Avenue. In what would probably result in the biggest Japanese stake in American retailing, the Tobu department store conglomerate, together with the managers of Saks, has offered to purchase the Manhattan icon and the 45 other Saks stores from their London-based parent, B.A.T. Industries...
...station. A few yards away, by the gateway of All Saints Russian Orthodox Church, waved the flag of pre-revolutionary Russia. Beneath the banner stood two young men in czarist military uniforms and two older men -- a grizzled Soviet army colonel in a karakul hat who proudly displayed an icon in a gilt- and-silver frame, and a gray-bearded orator who harangued curious bystanders over a megaphone. In a rambling tirade, the speaker called for the spiritual renewal of Russia, denouncing "Jewish Marxists" for masterminding the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which destroyed "all that was sacred to the Russian...
Chapman quickly became a cultural icon. Her short, spiky dreadlocks signaled a move away from pop glitter. Her music, pared down, almost willfully naive, was an antidote to the synthesized sound of the 1980s. In an age when pop singers seemed more like musical M.B.A.s than recording artists, she seemed genuine. Her politics were mushy headed and self-righteous, yet she was an urban folk singer without the fragility of the genre...