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Collins, the Genesis-drummer-turned-pop-icon, was cited for best male pop vocal, song of the year and record of the year for "Another Day in Paradise," his single about the plight of the homeless. His multiplatinum "...But Seriously" was in the running for album of the year...
...Educational Testing Service tampered with an American icon. They changed...
...have little rational doubt that the new tests are a lot better than the one we grew up fearing. But thank God I'll never have to find out. I just pray that graham crackers are the next cultural icon to fall, so that they they leave the LSAT's and the GRE's alone for the next three or four years...
...much for caution. In test-happy America, the SAT has since become a kind of academic icon and a national rite of passage for college-bound high school students. Every year more than 1.3 million of them take the 2-hr., 30-min. multiple-choice exam, which is intended to measure students' reasoning skills, math and verbal, as well as their readiness for college. High SAT scores -- perfection is 800 on each half of the exam -- have acquired the cachet of quality. Suburbs lure prospective home buyers by touting the SAT records of their high schools' graduates. Colleges boast...
...sweating and grunting has redefined the cultural parameters of female attractiveness -- away from soft curves toward a more athletic body. For proof, just compare pop icon Madonna to her prototype, Marilyn Monroe. On her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna flashed chiseled biceps and deltoids, so impressing one Los Angeles critic that he wrote that instead of the customary audience call for "Author! Author!" the cry from Madonna's fans should be "Fitness trainer! Fitness trainer!" Tennis ace Martina Navratilova also notes the changing standards. When the Czechoslovak-born athlete defected to the U.S. in 1975, she was so embarrassed...