Word: iconization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of Hillary's political capital can be traced to her status as a feminist icon. Why she is revered as such is entirely inexplicable. She is an intelligent enough individual (holding degrees from Wellesley and the Yale Law School) but cannot boast any exceptional achievements of her own. Her entire career has been derivative of her husband...
...tower is] basically frivolous, but it isHarvard's icon and to spend money that isavailable to spend elsewhere is probablyimprudent, but if you've got money on hand, spendit." said David A. Zewinski '76, associate deanfor physical resources and planning in the Facultyof Arts and Sciences...
...online flirting and decide it's time to make the call. No problem. Click on an icon, and your cyberhoney's phone rings in an instant--a few blocks or a few thousand miles away. And it's not just any ring. Everyone in the house has a separate phone line, each with a distinct sound. So when they're all huddled together watching a movie on cable, they know who needs to get up to answer. Of course, no one really has to get up, because they all have a cell phone handy, and it doesn't cost anything...
...rising popularity of Japanese newcomer Lexus. The haughty Germans and the aristocratic Brits realized that the wealthier baby-boomer set--now in a buying frenzy--was turned off by the companies' stuffy image and limited product line. "Our cars were admired but were perceived as an unattainable icon," concedes Joe Eberhardt, vice president of marketing for Mercedes-Benz North America. "Our problem was, we weren't considered...
DIED. IRON EYES CODY, 94, icon of environmentalism; in Los Angeles. The Cree-Cherokee actor and activist, who appeared in 100 films, struggled for decades before achieving celebrity with a role in a historic 1971 public-service spot for Keep America Beautiful. (Later he made a sequel.) As the American Indian who sheds a tear at the sight of a landscape littered with garbage and polluted by smoke, Cody brought the nonprofit group unprecedented attention and support. In 1996 a New Orleans newspaper alleged he was of Italian descent--a charge Cody vigorously denied...