Word: iconoclastic
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Vegas is also the perfect place for Hickey, who has taught at the University of Nevada since 1992. It's a freebooting and democratic city where people with funny resumes fit right in. Whatever else he is--lucid hipster, tenured iconoclast and barbarian at the gates of art-world convention--Hickey, 62, is the only American art critic of consequence who used to play guitar for a country-and-western band. He is also proof that MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," like the one he was awarded this year, go to some shaggy characters, the kind who like low-rider cars...
...Being a maverick and an iconoclast in an ossified political culture helped Koizumi's career. But being a loner can be a huge handicap when you're trying to tear down that culture?and have powerful, entrenched forces fighting you every step of the way. The LDP conservatives, led by the formidable Ryutaro Hashiimoto, want no part of Koizumi's reform agenda and are determined to preserve the business-politics relationships the Prime Minister has sworn to destroy. They are waiting to pounce: at the first sign of vulnerability, they will surely come after Koizumi as they did with previous...
...something charmingly Quixotic about a Mexican President ambling into the White House in cowboy boots and urging his host to make the most profound change in decades to U.S. immigration law - and to do it before Christmas. But Vicente Fox is nothing if not Quixotic. It took an iconoclast with an irrepressible buccaneering spirit to break the monopoly on power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had run Mexico as its private hacienda for 70 years. But Fox ultimately owed his popular election victory last year to the profound hopes of most Mexicans for a better life. And right...
...probably be pleased. He was a revolutionary by nature, an impish iconoclast, and a discovery like this, which - if it turns out to be correct - challenges the very nature of how we?ve assumed the universe looks and acts, would have been very exciting to him. As it is to today?s physicists - this study is going be combed over and combed over, and it?s going to provoke an enormous amount of discussion. If it holds up, it could change the way we look at the universe, and Einstein was always interested in that...
...year-old iconoclast shows no particular respect for the establishment, however. He says he is a co-founder of a secret global group called Net Nobility, which includes 865 rich young techies interested in preparing for the day when the Internet will change everything. "The Internet is a fabulous revolution that will transform not only market sectors but all social contracts and put even the nation-state in question," says Ehrmann, who not surprisingly has a penchant for wearing black. For the last 15 years he has been been bringing the revolution to the world of databanks by mining publicly...