Word: iconoclasm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wigglesworth residents may realize that they have an outpost of literary iconoclasm practically staring them in the face. Despite its cleaner-than-thou aesthetic, the Harvard Bookstore is "definitely not" part of a chain, according to an offended representative at the store's information desk. As cool as they are, however, someone ought to tell the folks at the Harvard Bookstore to lose the Barnes and Noble-esque green signs and discount stickers on New York Times bestsellers--posing as a chain bookstore is almost more offensive than being...
Adam Werbach can be excused for a certain zany iconoclasm. After all, he is only 24--the youngest person to head the nation's largest environmental organization in its 105-year history. "We have a lot to celebrate," he tells his listeners, gathered for three days of seminars on such topics as "Dioxins, Endocrine Disruptors and Birth Defects" and "Green Politics in the U.S. and Bulgaria." The recent Brown University graduate recalls how, growing up in Los Angeles, "my T-ball practice was canceled week after week because of smog. Now the air is cleaner." The morning of his speech...
...what of sports teams? Should a man who claims to have had a gender change of heart the day before the tennis tournament be entitled to play on the women's team? If Harvard, in the spirit of iconoclasm, decides to interfere with the healthy separation which allows athletes of each sex to compete against members of their same sex, would this be acceptable to other NCAA-affiliated universities...
...Parisian conservatory Lycee Lamartine, which he topped off with a year of jazz studies at Boston's rigorous Berklee College of Music, Terrasson mixes a thorough knowledge of the jazz canon--from Cole Porter to Duke Ellington to Miles Davis--with a rich harmonic sense and a carefully reined iconoclasm. On his debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like My Funny Valentine, Bye Bye Blackbird and Porter's I Love Paris by accelerating the tempos, throwing in breakneck stops and starts and reassembling the melodies as if shuffling a deck...
...Gordon Rand) have evolved a rapid-fire patter that tongue-ties everyone around them. Smith and Rand do a nifty job of depicting the deepest sibling affinities. They can finish each other's sentences because they are, finally, one creature: that familiar Shaw character, the Bright Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley as the world's most dexterous waiter) are not quite up to the mark. The Clandon family's eventual reunion...