Word: iconization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other half of the Beatles' famous writing team, John Lennon, is dead, struck down by the gun of a crazed fan in 1980; as a result, Lennon's contributions to the Beatles have taken on mythic proportions. But it's McCartney who remains the icon of the '60s generation...
Thomas has become a Harvard celebrity, a campus icon synonymous with unrestrained flamboyance, with an effusive, unapologetic sense of self, of gay identity. But for most of his years in Portland, Thomas was a serious closet case. He was a model student, a piano prodigy, a typical overachiever--but he kept his secret to himself. He was afraid of being hated, afraid that his friends would turn their backs on him. He compensated by pounding at the piano for hours on end, obeying the driving beat of his metronome. He also cried...
...action allegedly still in Vietnam, as Perot kept hinting that some broad and ill-defined conspiracy was preventing America from repatriating the MIAS. Texas Democratic Governor Mark White in 1984 recruited him to head a statewide commission on educational reform. Perot responded by taking on that ultimate Lone Star icon: the cult of Friday-night high school football. And with the cry "No pass, no play," he boldly proposed barring failing students from extracurricular activities...
...almost all self-respecting hoopsters, the All Star nowadays is less an athletic shoe than a fashion accessory. Teenage boys and girls practically live in them. Woody Allen has been known to wear the red version of the high-tops with formal wear. They have become an international icon as well; half the 10 million pairs of All Stars sold last year were exported. The All Star is the most popular sneaker in Japan, where Converse sold more than 1 million pairs last year. In France they are known as "Chuckie T's" and are considered very chic...
Since being gunned down in a Harlem ballroom 27 years ago, Malcolm X, once viewed as an alarming extremist by whites and many blacks as well, has evolved into an icon in the black community, revered by African Americans ranging from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the members of the raging rap group Public Enemy. Making a movie to satisfy all these constituencies would seem an impossible task. At various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing...