Word: paragons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pure stasis. Koons is the baby to Andy Warhol's Rosemary. There is no artist in whom self-advertisement and self-esteem are more ecstatically united than Koons: he makes even Julian Schnabel, who recently proclaimed himself to be the nearest thing America has to Picasso, look like a paragon of self-effacement. He has done for narcissism what Michael Milken did for the junk bond...
...despite all his gifts, Spring-field, Mo., native is a paragon of modesty--a quiet, hard-working study in self-effacement...
...fact, the Harvard women's soccer team's loss yesterday afternoon at Ohiri Field stood as a paragon of a painful Crimson loss...
...patriotism, cleverly invoking Bush's father's famous castigation of Joseph McCarthy. Clinton, in an attempt to humanize himself, invoked almost every member of his family, both living and dead -- his recovering drug-addict brother who "is alive today because of the criminal-justice system"; his widowed mother, a paragon of family values even as a single parent; his "heart-of-gold" grandfather, who taught him to hate segregation; his daughter, just for being alive; and his wife because it was their 17th anniversary. (Ronald Reagan knew how to do schmaltz; no one else should ever...
...inhabitants wander aimlessly and joblessly; its Ridgecrest Mall, once the paragon of consumer culture, is mostly in plyboards. Tyler's dream world of the Sharper Image turned into a Woolworth's going-out-of-Business sale overnight...