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Shortly after he signed a $60 million contract with Warner Bros. in 1992, Prince scrawled the word slave on his face, changed his name to a symbol and announced that he was retiring from recorded music. The problem was that he had a backlog of 450 songs he felt the world wanted to hear, and Warner Bros. simply refused to flood the market with that much product. Commercial suicide, the company said. In one of his last public acts before locking himself away in Paisley Park, his hermitage just west of Minneapolis, Minn., Prince stood before an awards-show audience...
...hasn’t hurt that Sandvoss, who like his co-star Wes Ramsey is heterosexual, has become something of a sex symbol in the gay press. One critic likened him to a “Viking pool boy,” while another gushed that he was the “stud of the hour...
...will need all the political skill he can muster because he's the symbol of everything people love to hate about those rich Yankees. The Boston Red Sox, after their devastating play-off loss last fall, thought they had secured Rodriguez's services this winter. But negotiations stalled, and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner stole A-Rod as if he were a tire on a Volvo with Massachusetts plates sitting in the wrong part of the South Bronx. And while he's assured of being hated in every other stadium, success in the Bronx isn't a given. "New York...
...Traub adroitly explains how a combination of municipal power and rising real estate values succeeded in driving out the rot. In a new world of tall towers and chain stores, the Disney company played both beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just the squalid 42nd Street of the '70s that has been wiped away. It's the rich, wild tangle of the prewar years. Traub is of two minds about "the stupendous contrivance" that Times Square has become...
...their .47-acre lots. Never mind that Jerry, a landscaping contractor, thinks in better prose than most English professors write--come on, give Lee some room to play in, he'll make it up to you. The glossy flawlessness of Lee's prose is itself a metaphor, a symbol of the superficial perfection of America's suburban splendor. Even though you can barely see the fault lines and stress fractures just below the surface, somehow it makes you feel them that much more keenly...