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...sneakers, cars, cola, cereal, hamburgers and underwear. In the past few years he was not a basketball star who played at business but a businessman who played basketball. His leaping, legs-splayed silhouette became as famous around the world as the large-eared shadow of another corporate and entertainment icon, Mickey Mouse. Until Jordan came along, FORTUNE 500 companies rarely used a black face to push their products...
Albert Carnesale, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, said "Galbraith is the exemplum of someone making contributions to the world of scholarship and the world of public policy. For us, he is an icon...
Once again, U.S. audiences have the British to thank for doing overdue justice to an icon of American popular culture. This first-ever TV version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess comes not from an American network but from the BBC. The director is a seasoned hand at such transatlantic transactions: Trevor Nunn, former head of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the man who brought Cats and Les Miserables to Broadway...
...probably won't become the next Harvard Square icon, but a massive stylized sculpture of yellow and silver metal bearing the words "Harvard Yard Information" certainly drew a lot of attention yesterday...
...fall icon is the monastic dress -- long, chaste and as spare as a monk's humble quarters...