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...clamp down on information about the Reubens show, considering how he clammed up. Whether the directive came from Reubens himself or from inside Carsey-Werner, it seems there is still fear about how the public and its guardians, network television, will feel about returning the one-time pop icon to the mainstream...
Your cover story on the most influential people in the U.S. [THE TIME 25, April 21] was a sad commentary on the direction in which American society is evolving. There was a time when American icons influenced history by their strong moral leadership. Today they are predominantly career bureaucrats, par-tisan activists, shallow entertainers, mediocre musicians, salvation gurus, shock artists and others who make a living dredging the murky depths of society. In a society where the social fabric is frayed and there is little role for human values, any icon that people can cling to seems a good...
...Puritans weren't alone in their suspicion of the icon. The next wave of settlers in the Northeast, the Quakers, led by William Penn, despised most arts. Music was a distraction, poetry (beyond the simplest hymns) a snare. So the lack of Quaker painting is hardly a surprise, though some artists--most conspicuously Benjamin West--came from Quaker families and left the faith. The only painter who lived and died a Quaker was the Philadelphia "primitive" Edward Hicks (1780-1849), and he felt moral qualms about...
...more than two years after attracting $2 billion in start-up capital. "You can tell he was depressed over the business stuff he's got into," says a colleague. "He always says, pleadingly, 'I'm only a film director!' But of course he's much more: studio owner, pop icon, a father, a mentor, a major mogul in spite of himself...
...current World War II icon, the Iwo Jima memorial, won't do. For all its majesty, it remains a memorial not to World War II but to one branch of the U.S. military. Its official name, in fact, is the Marine Corps Memorial...