Word: iconic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deneuve, more beautiful than ever, displays a knowing humanity, and a sensuality she rarely shows in film, where she has been used more as icon than actress. When she and Depardieu finally acknowledge their passion for each other, there is a sheer eroticism-without so much as a button being unbuttoned-that one finds in few movie love scenes...
Leningrad is a city dominated by its namesake. The sign which appears on buildings that "Lenin is more alive than the living" is not an exaggeration. Lenin is very much the Soviet national icon. One can buy literally hundreds of different lapel pins or "znatchki" with Lenin's profile. Buildings, theaters, factories, ships, trains and squares are named after him. His name is invoked to justify all political actions and his ideas and actions are acknowledged for all positive achievements of the Soviet State. Even people who dream of emigrating consider him to have been a great man. They often...
...what shapes to repeat and where to repeat them, and how to break their sequence into daring asymmetries and unexpected detachments of rhythm, was carried out with an unfailing formal sense. This disciplined what might otherwise have been a too lush spread of metaphorical associations-with Russian altar screens, icon covers (for there is something numinous, if not exactly religious, about Nevelson's imagination), tombs and reliquaries...
...chaste welcome center on my left with only three cars in the lot, then the silos and water tank, and finally the nice row of brick stores that have easily endured their freight of souvenirs and the acid marinade of countless photographs to remain as anyone's icon of small-town America. They are not exactly an architecturally distinguished row, but their variety and fantasy of ornament and color make pictures of Reagan's home street in Tampico, Ill., look dour...
...thing that has sustained Carter through his time of leadership has been his personal appeal, a good man struggling to get experience against impossible odds and sinister forces. Now he seems to threaten that very icon of decency that he has created with such labor. He has turned away for the moment from his old friend St. Mark: "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul...