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There is more to Elmo than supply-demand curves or limited editions. In the culture of cynicism that we live in, Elmo has broken through as an icon, maybe even a hero. He is not a hero in the way I wish America would dream--he is not courageous, committed or visionary in any traditional sense. He is cute, ready to learn and caring, but he is not strong. Elmo isn't the "Sesame Street" character I would want to consult about my course selections (I trust Grover...
Bill Cosby, in his initial public response to the murder of his son, seemed aware of this. The man who single-handedly updated the middle-class patriarch as a TV icon, who made the small screen safe again for displays of frank morality, loving discipline and gruff exasperation, may have sensed straightaway that the death in his family made him a kind of reluctant griever in chief. So instead of asking for sympathy, he offered it--to families who'd experienced similar tragedies. Cosby seemed more concerned about his audience's pain than his own. Considering the permeable borders between...
Slatkin, a baseball fan since childhood whose greatest sacrifice in moving to Washington has been giving up his St. Louis Cardinals season tickets, pointedly devoted his entire opening concert to music by such American composers as Bernstein, Howard Hanson and the Washington-born jazz icon Duke Ellington. "Because you are called the National Symphony," he says, "you have an obligation, not just out of a sense of duty but out of real love, to present the music of your own country. We should be thinking of our own repertoire in the same way that the Austrians view Mozart...
...finest late role. He worked with ambitious auteurs from Altman to Zurlini; he lent his bankability to obscure projects. In his last year he starred with Chiara in Three Lives and Only One Death, an elaborate jape by the Paris-based Chilean Raul Ruiz, and appeared with fellow icon Jeanne Moreau in a sweet vignette--a poignant farewell kiss--in Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds...
This case sticks in the craw [SOCIETY, Dec. 2]. It isn't because of O.J. Simpson's race. A jury of munchkins decided it was payback time for past injustices. The case won't go away because too many African Americans have turned Simpson into an icon. I'm afraid that race relations have been set back. Affirmative-action programs have been set back. The healing will begin when Simpson wipes the smirk off his face and goes away. PAUL WASSERMAN Northridge, California...