Sentences with phrase «american culture hero»
That same year after Five Easy Pieces's apotheosis, Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry trumped Nicholson's Hardhat Longhair as a Middle American culture hero.
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«This could be a seismic shift in American culture,» she said, adding, «Gretchen Carlson is the real hero here.»
Unique baseball cultures developed in nearly every Latin American country, each built around early heroes who served as templates for later ones.
Jonah remarks on the fact that there weren't many heroes for him to emulate growing up, as most prominent African Americans in pop culture were either sports stars or musicians, never the champions who took down the bad guys, and «taking down bad guys is fundamentally what you want in your model of a hero.»
As a young man, delving into Schwartz's life with only a partial idea of what he was doing, Atlas was nonetheless able to meet many of his fast - vanishing heroes from the New York literary world who had inspired him to become a critic in the first place: Philip Rahv, Dwight Macdonald, Alfred Kazin — giants who held sway over American culture in a bygone, arguably more literate age.
In American pop culture, lawyers seem to be almost equally depicted as both the righteous hero — and the diabolical... read more»
Super Chinese and Culture Brain fans have another reason to celebrate tomorrow's eShop offerings: Kung - Fu Heroes is officially dropkicking North American Wii U Virtual Console tomorrow!
Part homage to a civil rights hero, part critique of the traditions of art history, this large - scale painting powerfully reminds us of the exclusion of African American culture and history in the wider art historical canon.»
It led the «Pictures generation» to question how images proliferate, and (on a lesser note) it led American culture to an image of Barak Obama as populist hero.
Houston Museum of African - American Culture: «Works on Paper by Benito Huerta,» through Aug. 12, and Najee Dorsey's «Leaving Mississippi: Reflections on Heroes and Folklore,» through Sunday; 4807 Caroline; $ 3 - $ 5; 713-526-1015, hmaac.org.
Talk: Collector Walter Evans @ Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m., Washington, D.C. Evans discusses «Harlem Heroes,» an exhibition of photographs by Carl Van Vechten and the culture impact of his portrait subjects