Word: iconoclastic
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...publish-or-perish world of academe, he is a bit of an iconoclast. Since being tenured at Harvard in 1959, Fleming has been less than prolific in his scholarship. And yet, he has remained in the classroom, teaching students nearly every year...
...latest hit movie Man on the Moon, authentic actress, has gone mainstream. Sporting her new post-plastic surgery nose and a heart of gold, Love has come a long way from ripped baby-doll dresses and smeared mascara, baby. But in the process of her transformation from druggie iconoclast to Hollywood hipster, has she betrayed her most fervent fans, young women...
Kirchhoff laughingly describes the brochure as " iconoclast humor." But it also prompted an evangelical Protestant like Matthew C. Stevens '01, a member of the group Christian Impact, to explore HSS a little further...
...life a bit more professionally. "He entered the business world a real novice," says Regis McKenna, the renowned Valley marketing guru, who's known Jobs since he was a teenager. "He had no management training, no business skills." It showed. Young Jobs was a my-way-or-the-highway iconoclast who cared only that his employees embrace his apocalyptic vision for Apple as passionately as he did. "If you had religion," recalls McKenna, "you had the job." Such absolutism helped give birth to the Mac, but it wasn't exactly conducive to building a stable corporation...
...value of checks and balances. Evidently unwilling to court still more Republican ire with the internal, FBI-staffed investigation she initially promised, the attorney general is wooing straight-shooting former senator John Danforth of Missouri to head the new probe into the Waco conflagration. Danforth, a party-line-bucking iconoclast who retired from the Senate in 1995, is a former Missouri attorney general, an ordained Episcopal priest and the kind of guy who won?t stop to consider the FBI?s feelings if he finds anything rotten in the state of the agency?s disastrous siege of the Branch Davidian...