Word: iconization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Laurence Weiner in the form of the word reduced written in huge block letters on the wall of its main gallery; another gallery devoted to a single drawing by Sol Lewitt; some huge and utterly banal sculpture by Jim Dine; and so on. And, of course, that one-shot icon of the conformity of late-Modernist official taste, Jeff Koons' Puppy, 1992, sitting outside the museum...
...locals now call the predicament "Roby Ridge," referring to the deadly FBI showdown with white separatist turned militia icon Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. In fact, the Illinois siege has become a rallying point for militia types from as far away as Nevada. The police find nothing funny about Roby Ridge. They do not want the pun to stick...
...what was Princess Diana, really? Icon, yes. Model princess, never...
...years, at age 66, Smith was done. "I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball," an emotional Smith said at his farewell news conference Thursday afternoon. "It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well." Traveling, recruiting, giving speeches, signing autographs: the duties attendant to a working icon. Bill Guthridge, Smith's longtime assistant and likely successor, knew it too. "It's all the little things that wore Dean...
...college game one, two, or three years early. Some skipped it entirely. Teams violated NCAA rules, programs were suspended. Players took cars, jewelry, did drugs, shaved points. Yet there was always Dean Smith, from every November through every March, coaching the North Carolina Tar Heels, for 36 seasons icon and steward of an impeccable program...