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...quintessential railroad builder. We first see him competing against a spike-driving machine. Standing on a rock above the crowd, he laughs confidently in the face of their disbelief at his prowess. Thankfully, Henry, as one of the few black popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...
Definitely, not the channels we're used to surfing. But within this context the television gains a new weight as a cultural icon, a mess of wires worthy of being considered along with the oil paints and bicycle seats of past art lore. It was not until the mid 1960s that artists began to use the commercially available portapak cammera as an artistic medium, and since then, the technical and conceptual sophistication of video art has increased dramatically. Gary Hill created his first video installation in 1974 and went on to become a prominent, internationally renowned video artist...
...grown up with this," said Tony Zacharek '95, gesturing to the Haft Seen. "Usually there are family photos around the table. It's kind of like a Christmas tree or a Menorah in that it's icon of tradition associated with the holiday...
...operating system determines the way a computer is used, fromhow files are copied to how programs are run. In DOS you have to type in the name of the program you want to run, whereas in Windows you have to double click on the program icon. OS/2, like Windows, uses a graphical user interface (GUI); you can click and drag an icon to run a program...
...famous for his penetrating insights into the psychology of affirmative action. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Steele reiterates his long-standing critique. Affirmative action is really a "iconographic public policy--policy that ostensibly exists to solve a social problem but actually functions as an icon for the self-image people to hope to gain by supporting the policy...