Word: iconization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene is a Manhattan skyscraper. a computer guy named Rob Glaser is standing at a PC. A projector beams a jumbo image of his screen across an auditorium. As reporters gather to watch, the demo begins. Glaser clicks on an icon and, through a miracle of high-speed compression and decompression, a Counting Crows music video streams from a computer in Seattle onto the screen in New York. It's live video, transmitted over the Internet, and even people using plain old phone lines and standard modems can have it. I thought of those first frames of Neil Armstrong...
...orange-haired, androgynous icon of the 1970s and '80s, singer-songwriter David Bowie proved himself one of rock's more adaptable creatures. Now 50, the creator of such best-selling albums as The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars has become the first entertainer of any stripe to "securitize" himself. Last month staid insurance companies turned into rock-bond groupies, excitedly buying up $55 million of so-called Bowie Bonds privately placed by Fahnestock & Co., a New York City investment firm...
Speaking of clotheshorses, Arnold Scaasi is getting a lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Winners pick their presenters, and Scaasi chose that well-known fashion icon Barbara Bush. "The two are old friends," says Bush's spokeswoman. "Mrs. Bush is very excited about...
...perspectives in an attempt to capture Evita's mystique, frequently shifting his focus from past to present, from fact-based journalism to whimsy-based fantasy and from black comedy to deep philosophical inquiry. The result is a subtle, moving study of the life and death of a national icon and a distinct sense that "what is history is not always historical...
There is more to Elmo than supply-demand curves or limited editions. In the culture of cynicism that we live in, Elmo has broken through as an icon, maybe even a hero. He is not a hero in the way I wish America would dream--he is not courageous, committed or visionary in any traditional sense. He is cute, ready to learn and caring, but he is not strong. Elmo isn't the "Sesame Street" character I would want to consult about my course selections (I trust Grover...