Word: iconization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe, though not the way it always has been. After Saturday Night Fever and Grease made him an icon by age 24, Travolta often took a year or two off at a time, content to fly jets while letting choice offers fly by. His only hits for an entire decade were two entries in the babbling-baby Look Who's Talking series. When the drought finally ended, he vowed to work as often as possible with A-list names. "If Dustin Hoffman wants me, yeah, I'm going," he says, his voice rising. "Mike Nichols? John Woo? Emma Thompson? Nicolas...
...every media channel available. Suddenly, we must accept that our whining, petulant Material Girl has evolved once more. Call the new Madonna "Ethereal Girl." Yes, all the rumors are more than true. Her new album, Ray of Light, pulls off the seemingly impossible. Madonna--our symbol of superficiality, our icon of cheesy urban culture--has gone spiritual...
This time, there's no fanfare, no ridiculous media blitz over her new live-in lover, no distractions from the music. After listening to Ray of Light, it's easy to see why Madonna is such a celebrated icon. Even though she's made questionable choices and reinvented herself a tad too many times, there is no denying her superb talent. Her new album features the most captivating, energetic, innovative music that Madonna has produced. In her quest to mix spirituality and trendy electronica, she has discovered a musical realm that will revitalize her career...
Radclyffe Hall is remembered these days largely as an early lesbian icon. Her name is inextricably linked to her groundbreaking 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness, which brought the theme of lesbian sexuality--of female 'inversion,' as it was called at that early date--out into the open, without either the euphemism or the condemnation that had always accompanied it before...
...only viable one. Should it be found that active smokers tend to live longer than sedentary non-smokers, our treasured liberty to do nothing may go the way of our liberty to smoke. Televisions could join alcohol and cigarettes by getting their very own "sin" tax. One American icon, the couch potato, might join another, the Marlboro Man, as a target of paternalism...