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...purely for the pleasure of the populace can be re-defined as an aesthetic object with multi-dimensional resonance beyond its superficial meaning as the most mundane of all party decorations. We can see this glorious likeness of the Statue of Liberty thus as a kind of post-modern icon: a transformation—nay, subversion—of traditional elite definitions of “high art” through the medium of the balloon. Because this form of art rejects the notion of “absolute truth” by implication, passers-by are thus free...
...that answers general news questions. Send a message to the screen name SmarterChild, for example, and the bot created by ActiveBuddy, based in New York City, will deliver headlines and stock quotes in less than five seconds. It takes a little longer, however, to download a cute little robot icon from the company's website...
...news office reports that he recalled visiting the Twin Towers multiple times and now being haunted by the images of people clinging to the outside of the building in an attempt to escape the heat caused by the fire. He called the World Trade Center an “icon of New York and thinks of the wall as a reminder “of the last thing that many people saw before dying...
...fellow firefighters died saving others and his boots melted on his feet after digging 24 hours at a stretch in ruins that could still crush him? I don't remember any. Instead, we are served a steady diet of glamorized businessmen. Welch is hailed as an icon of our time for driving up the stock price of General Electric...
...record royalties and speaking fees, not from church tithes or his preaching videos. He has helped poor people both materially and spiritually, and is building a 231-acre rehabilitation and jobs complex in impoverished South Dallas. He feels that the poor need a fiscal model rather than an icon of self-denial. He claims Jesus must have been rich to support his disciples. But many other Christians believe that Jesus was a poor man and that wealth corrupts. Jakes is not their preacher...