Word: iconoclast
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...Weicker-Moffett match-up is the long-awaited title fight between two of Connecticut's best-known politicians. Even before Weicker, 51, came to national prominence as a member of the Senate Watergate committee, he was building a reputation as a social liberal and iconoclast. Lately he has been following a more conventional Republican line, consistently supporting President Reagan on economic, military and even environmental policy. On the campaign trail, however, the two-term incumbent stresses his liberal stance on social issues. Weicker portrays himself as a modern knight wielding the Constitution as a shield to ward...
...former Doctor Doress, Professor Doress and all that jazz. From now on it is going to be plain, ordinary Ivy Doress working in the best way he knows how to preserve spaceship earth, the crew and passengers. I'm not a complete iconoclast. I welcome anyone with a strong commitment toward peace, without this or that hidden agenda, and with a capacity for a very difficult organizing effort to come forward and join...
...Progress at the 45th Maggio Musicale festival in Florence. Stravinsky, whose centenary is being celebrated this year, conducted the premiere of The Rake in Venice in 1951, and the work has acquired the status of a classic among the composer's admirers. But Russell, ever the iconoclast, has turned it upside down. The jejune quality of Stravinsky's cool, mock-Mozartian music is engulfed in a rush of theatrical inventiveness that is often sensitively analytical, at times tasteless and, in the end, dramatically convincing-not an easy task with this opera...
Beneath the deft mimicry is the cultural critic's remove from his subject and his audience. This is not new. All humor is a detached analysis, an autopsy of the society's dreams and demons. As the sit-down iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche put it, "A joke is an epitaph on an emotion." The post-funny comics go a step further by taking the ironist's step back. By making fun of the obsequiousness and desperation found in the lower circles of show-business purgatory, they are chiseling epitaphs on epitaphs. They haunt cemeteries of frayed hopes...
FURTHER PROOF emanates from other tracks on "Telegraph." Buffett delivers the schmaltzy "Stars Fell on Alabama" with more sincerity than sarcasm, when one might expect the reverse from the iconoclast in him. On the Mac McAnally tune "It's My Job," he could almost pass for a neo-conservative. This track alone ought to sell thousands of copies of "Coconut Telegraph" for him down at the B-School...