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It’s not just about attracting casual fans to watch the icon whose face adorns everything from airplanes to skin care products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Clinicians can click on the icon to see how the patient’s risk has changed and what factors are contributing to the score.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Last week, more than 80,000 Irish fans at Croke Park gave icon Katie Taylor a fitting farewell.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Appreciate a music legend’s legacy: Dolly Parton got her start in Nashville as a country star, but she cemented her status as a global icon by courting pop fans.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
Sitting with the Queen, I had to will myself out of my own head—to stop processing the splendor of the setting and the paralysis I felt coming face-to-face with an honest-to-goodness icon.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Around 1944, Evans’s clowns transform into her signature symmetrical, archetypal masks and mandalas—totemic images and icons that feel urgent, primeval and alive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
As a punk historian who’s written so much about this music and its icons, why do you think now is the right time to time to tell your story?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Every city will see a different support act, with 80s pop icons Tears For Fears playing at Wembley, and pop legend Kylie Minogue on the bill in Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Critic W. David Marx, looking to sum up the curiously stagnant opening decades of the 21st century, cribbed a phrase from one of its enduring icons for the title of his book “Blank Space.”
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
“He was letting you break your icons one by one. He was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.”
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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