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With Stephen Spielberg's recent purchase of therights to the movie and the antics of America'sfavorite pop icon, Madonna the simplecinderella-like plot of Memoirs promises tobe the year's great multimedia phenomenon. Ms.Ciccone appeared on the February cover ofHarper's Bazaar clad in a black kimono(Jean Paul Gaultier) and with the pale face, darkhair and red lips characteristic of a geisha. Inthe article "Like A Geisha," written by DaisanMcLane, Madonna likens what she does to "being amodern-day geisha...
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...
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...