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...Truth or Dare, a stylized icon of the Madonna appears dreamlike over her head and then dissolves into the form of the black-clad chanteuse spinning beneath the cross in an act of contrition: Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa...
...rich and pretty, the show looked rich and pretty too, like a Black Forest cake. With sumptuous production values and characters who spent every available petrodollar, Dallas elevated conspicuous consumption to a secular religion: gaud almighty. It introduced viewers to the Greedy '80s, by establishing as a pop icon a Texas oilman who believed it's not what you get that matters, it's what you can get away with. In that age of winks and nudges, Trumps and Harts, the show understood that any indiscretion can be turned into a career move, because America wants its celebrities to live...
...Camden Yards in downtown Baltimore is a going-going- gone home run. Make no mistake, fans and players alike will miss the homey pleasures of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, now in its final year. Set in the middle of an old-fashioned front-porch neighborhood and never an architectural icon, Memorial Stadium is like Baltimore itself, a place that purports to be nothing more and nothing less than...
...Demoiselles d'Avignon, did for the figure. His emblematic work (for Americans) was White Square on White, 1918 -- that unreproducible, fierce, magical white square, canted on a slightly warmer white ground, which has been in the Museum of Modern Art since the '30s and has become a central icon of the reductive impulse. But now we see in depth what went before and came after it: a fascinating spectacle...
...sensitivity that few artists have rivaled since. Sometimes he would seem to have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But Van Dyck probably never met Percy, who died in 1632; he was working from a younger portrait by someone else...