Word: iconoclastic
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...KRONOS QUARTET (Nonesuch). The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet (Violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, Violist Hank Dutt and Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud) looks like a new-wave band and plays like an iconoclast's image-busting dream come to fiddling life. This disk offers the Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...
...takes over this week, is the producer of such widely praised hits as Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields but has never worked for a U.S. movie company. Indeed, he has been one of the American industry's most outspoken critics. Columbia is gambling that a talented iconoclast can provide something the studio sorely needs: handsome, intelligent films that also make money...
NOTHING MILLER produced after he left Daredevil in 1982 has acheived quite the same effect on the industry and its readers, even Ronin, his first original project for DC Comics. Any iconoclast is lost without a background of tradition to work with and assumptions to question. Thus comes Batman: The Dark Knight, his latest and best work, where he introduces one of the great heros of comics to his own brand of urban reality...
State Sen. George Bachrach portrays himself as an iconoclast and not "a back-slapping member of the club." His record of activism includes demonstrations against the Vietnam War, civil rights advocacy, anti-nuclear rallies, and a 1984 arrest while protesting in the offices of Deak-Perera, a dealer in South African gold Krugerrands...
...documentary that chronicles the creation of We Are the World, there is a general air of union and celebration, with Dylan hanging back from all the good-fellowship. Everyone is used to seeing Dylan as the selfexiled iconoclast, the hipster assassin, lurking darkly and waiting to wound. But here he seems different, like an expatriate who is not sure whether to travel on his own passport or sneak back into the country. He frets openly about performing his short solo. He needs coaching; he needs confidence. And when he brings it off, finally -- and beautifully -- he gets a hug from...