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...were quirky windows into our souls, expressions of our kicky individuality. Michael J. Fox sported one in Back to the Future; Wham had a few dozen pinned to their blousy satin suits. They even made it big in China during the Cultural Revolution when Mao-adorned pendants were the symbol of revolutionary coolness. Then the multinationals, elementary schools and junior athletic leagues took over and un-cooled the button. They became big and plastic, and their messages lost out to corporate hype and photo badges of 8-year-old softball players. Until now. Yes, the classic aluminum beauties are back...
...Heidelberg Academy, a private southeastern Mississippi school where he is headmaster. We are sitting in his office--or is it a Confederate museum? It has more than a dozen rebel flags, a portrait of Jefferson Davis, a beautifully bound Bible. His shirt pocket is stitched with a Confederate symbol and the words WAVE THE FLAG. I wonder how he could possibly determine which of us knows more black people...
...jaded cynics perk their ears and pay attention. Eminem will appear buck naked in the June issue of UK Cosmopolitan. Eminem naked in Cosmo? It’s something I expect from Jennifer Lopez or Lara Flynn Boyle, but not from the guy who ridicules his sex symbol status on the Marshall Mathers LP. Oh well, I guess if sales are the most important thing to a person… I find it especially amusing that the Cosmo girls held a press conference to announce a full month in advance that he’ll be naked...
DIED. HARVEY BALL, 79, commercial artist and adman who invented the now ubiquitous and much parodied Smiley Face in 1963; in Worcester, Mass. The goal of the yellow symbol was to put smiley faces on frowny workers at two newly merged insurance companies. Ball was paid $45 for his design and never trademarked...
...DiFranco, 30, ever changed her name to an unpronounceable symbol it probably would look like a fist, to represent her subversion of music-industry conventions. Or maybe it would take the shape of a crooked smile. Or perhaps there's no single symbol that can stand for what DiFranco is all about: she's folk and she's punk; she can be a little country and even a tiny bit hip-hop. In fact, she has transformed herself into a flesh-and-blood icon, one that represents a blithe, unconquerable self-reliance: she has released 15 albums over...