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...report on the careers and jobs of the future [VISIONS 21, May 22], Tom Peters described his new role model for professional women: the "icon woman." He noted that she does work that is exciting, relevant and, yes, cool. I do that too. I am also an "in your face" adventurer, and I create scintillating projects on the Web. I have a fab personal website. Call me Icon...
DIED. GEORGE SEGAL, 75, American Pop Art icon whose monochromatic sculptures were cast from live models and outfitted with bland commercial products; in South Brunswick, N.J. A so-called New Realist, he evoked the mystery and pathos of human existence in his tableaux...
When director Steven Spielberg was a teenager, he had a memorable encounter with his hero, the legendary John Ford. The aspiring filmmaker and the aging icon discovered they had something very special in common: a fascination with...
...found Peters' references to "icon Woman," his new role model for professional women, offensive: "She is turned on by her work!" She is "deeply committed to her self-designed, do-it-from-anywhere-with-anybody 'career' path." As long as attitudes like these are perpetuated by highly paid futurists and prominent newsmagazines, the workplace will remain a ghetto for women. JEAN COSTELLO West Boylston, Mass...
...Peters' "Icon Woman" may work at home on a fiendishly difficult problem. But in just a few years, she will face some even more fiendish difficulties called interruptions--beginning with the never-ending cry of "Mommmmmy!" PATRICIA MATHEWS Albuquerque...