Word: iconizing
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...everything in Zenica, and now we have nothing," Mikerevic says, seated in his family's small two-room apartment. It once belonged to Muslims, but Mikerevic does not want to know what happened to them. In the narrow living room filled by a sofa and a crib, an icon of the Virgin Mary now presides, next to a photo of an uncle who is with the military but hasn't been heard from in a year. Mikerevic rests his rifle in the crib next to the doll his wife found on the street...
...Hillary is in a position no First Lady has ever experienced. As the icon of American womanhood, she is the medium through which the remaining anxieties over feminism are being played out. She is on a cultural seesaw held to a schizophrenic standard: everything she does that is soft is a calculated coverup of the careerist inside; everything that isn't is a put-down of women who stay home and bake cookies. As she sits in the White House on a spring day, she seems to be bending with the burden, more relaxed and philosophical < about what life...
...tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends with the mirror shattered, setting Tommy free of his autistic isolation. He flees home, becomes a tabloid curiosity and show-biz superstar. Then he returns to his family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment in popular culture, he now stands for rehabilitation and forgiveness, almost as if enrolled in some 12-step recovery program. Michael Cerveris, saintly and poetic as Tommy in La Jolla, now seethes with energy. Of a solid...
...collective mind. At 47, she is still enough of a cultural touchstone to be of use to comedians when they need the punch line to a bosom joke. She might do a movie or a guest spot on Leno. But mostly, she's been a stately float in the Icon Parade -- the 50-tooth smile encased in antebellum shady-lady couture and a platinum hayloft of hair. Should we expect more of the only woman to have a theme park (Dollywood) named...
Adam Feldman's Morgana Prettiface, a flaming cornerstone of the production, rivals Joan Collins seductively bitchy Alex is (the Dynasty gay icon of the 1980's)--she's wonderfully charming because she's so delightfully evil. Bart St. Clair delivers his performance with great finesse, versatility, and fun. And Brian Martin's Tess provides a colorful parody of New Jersey chic, which leaves an indelible (indewibo) impression (impweson) upon the unsuspecting critic (cwidduck). In fact, most of the female leads display a refinement of drag seldom witnessed beyond the confines of Manhattan and San Francisco. They work it and they...