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...VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE The people's car became a 20th century icon as well as a huge commercial success, despite its provenance as a project of Hitler's. The Bug slowly caught on in the '50s among practical-minded buyers, and then in the '60s became a groovy symbol of peace and love...
Listen to some West Coast sensibility tonight when author T.C. Boyle reads from his book Stories. Known for his extravangant, irreverent personal style, Boyle has become an bad boy icon for 20-something readers. Boston University Law School Auditorium, 765 Comm Ave, Boston. 7 p.m. FREE...
...week earlier, America Online senior vice president David Colburn told his own tale of being bullied into dropping Netscape and adopting Microsoft's browser. AOL switched, Colburn said, because it was the only way Microsoft would agree to put the AOL icon on the Windows desktop--a key concession. Microsoft tried to get Colburn to say AOL had switched because Microsoft's browser was technically superior--and he had internal documents suggesting that some AOL employees thought so. But the gruffly sarcastic Colburn, who went to court in cowboy boots and several days' stubble, wouldn't budge...
DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below...
Those heroes have crossed over into the mainstream. This year champion bass fisherman Denny Brauer, like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, won a place on sports marketing's greatest icon: the Wheaties box. Snowboard pioneer Jake Burton taped a widely aired American Express commercial. And champion skateboarder Andy MacDonald signed on to do a spot for the Partnership for Drug-Free America--just one week after football legend Lawrence Taylor was arrested yet again on charges of cocaine possession...