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...Lincoln's handwriting, and troves of artifacts like his small wooden deathbed. It's also the glitziest presidential museum, a special-effects parade of ghostly holograms and mannequin Abes. "Lincoln is presented in a way people can easily digest," said executive director Richard Norton Smith. "If you want the icon, go to the memorial...
...believes now the trip was entirely appropriate, as I'm sure does Tom DeLay," says a source close to the center, which would not comment on the record. DeLay's office maintains the Congressman did important work on the trip, the highlight of which was a meeting with conservative icon Margaret Thatcher. The long-retired British Prime Minister regaled DeLay with an account of her efforts to end the cold war more than a decade earlier. As for Abramoff, a spokesman contends he is "being singled out for actions that are commonplace in Washington and are totally proper...
...frontier to be Latino-centric mainstream marketing, the same way hip-hop, urban culture has pervaded the general ad market in the past decade. Crest, P&G?s flagship toothpaste, has just named 5-year-old Cuban-born girl Enya Martinez its new ?Crest Kid,? the all-American advertising icon represented in the 1950s by kids drawn by Norman Rockwell. "For anyone under 30," says Gary Bassell, head of the Bravo Group, a Hispanic agency, "it ain't cool to be white anymore." Which makes it all the more important for advertisers to figure out what kinds of branding will...
ERICA: I think having a book that becomes a voice of its generation and is a kind of icon and drowns out all your other work is not such a lucky thing. In fact, I was thinking, when Hunter Thompson committed suicide, he was in that situation. He probably had the feeling of being obsolete and over it. And I know that feeling. So I fight it, I resist it, but it's tough to be typecast in a certain way when you're in your 20s and to have to live with that ever after...
There's a lot going on here. Why is Jessie's mother so unhappy? Why, after 20 years of marriage, is Jessie suddenly stepping out with a hunky monk? And can doubting Thomas choose between Jessie and his final monastic vows? Secret Life revolved around an icon, a black Madonna. This time it's a chair carved in the shape of a mermaid, a symbol of our spiritually amphibious nature, of the inner depths to which we must descend before we can solve the problems of our placid surface existence...