Other models have ushered in new eras of modeling — the waif, the Brazilian babe — but none has embodied a shared mass -
cultural moment quite so fully as the first supermodels.
Not exact matches
I remember (but could not find to link) a splendid editorial by the Christian Century's David Heim (some uncertainty about the author) from
quite a few years ago (presumably before the 2008 election) wryly encouraging evangelicals to enjoy their
moment in the political and
cultural limelight because it would prove fleeting.
The reality of the matter is
quite the opposite: Juan is not familiar to us at all today, and the reason our
cultural imagination no longer has much room for him — and would certainly be incapable of producing another figure like him — is that he, far more than the buoyantly eternal Quixote, is a figure fixed in a particular
cultural moment.