Word: iconization
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...Latin America's largest integrated steel company, it's not the blast furnaces that are shooting off the biggest sparks these days. It's Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, 40, an economist and financial wizard hired in May to restructure Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, formerly an icon of Brazilian state-driven industrialization and, since 1993, Brazil's largest privately owned firm. She has more than her share of work ahead at CSN, where she is leading what she calls an "internal revolution" that is likely to set standards for other Brazilian industries as well...
...scene is a Manhattan skyscraper. a computer guy named Rob Glaser is standing at a PC. A projector beams a jumbo image of his screen across an auditorium. As reporters gather to watch, the demo begins. Glaser clicks on an icon and, through a miracle of high-speed compression and decompression, a Counting Crows music video streams from a computer in Seattle onto the screen in New York. It's live video, transmitted over the Internet, and even people using plain old phone lines and standard modems can have it. I thought of those first frames of Neil Armstrong...
...orange-haired, androgynous icon of the 1970s and '80s, singer-songwriter David Bowie proved himself one of rock's more adaptable creatures. Now 50, the creator of such best-selling albums as The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars has become the first entertainer of any stripe to "securitize" himself. Last month staid insurance companies turned into rock-bond groupies, excitedly buying up $55 million of so-called Bowie Bonds privately placed by Fahnestock & Co., a New York City investment firm...
Speaking of clotheshorses, Arnold Scaasi is getting a lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Winners pick their presenters, and Scaasi chose that well-known fashion icon Barbara Bush. "The two are old friends," says Bush's spokeswoman. "Mrs. Bush is very excited about...
...perspectives in an attempt to capture Evita's mystique, frequently shifting his focus from past to present, from fact-based journalism to whimsy-based fantasy and from black comedy to deep philosophical inquiry. The result is a subtle, moving study of the life and death of a national icon and a distinct sense that "what is history is not always historical...