Rather it's about the generations of attitudes, wishes and beliefs that these men represented.
And none was more intriguing than Bowie, the first star to wield androgyny with such shameless sexual provocation that he not only created a new genre, but helped overturn generations of antediluvian attitudes.
Farrakhan, I said to myself, was much more of the generation and attitude of Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright.
"I fear we are raising a generation of young people whose attitudes will be 'What are you going to do for me?' " she wrote.
The son of a blacksmith, he is a former officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGCC) and of the generation whose attitudes were shaped by the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, in which a million Iranians were killed and wounded.
The Show Must Go On, Candoco Dance Company Conceptual dance meets pop in Jérôme Bel's production: fond, funny and always within a whisker of singing into its own hairbrush Sylvie Guillem, Life in Progress Sylvie Guillem is probably the most influential ballerina of her generation, changing attitudes around the ballet world.
"Every generation of hospitals reflects our attitude about health and disease and wealth and poverty," Professor Rosner said.
Dennis Hopper will be best remembered as the director and star of one of Hollywood's most influential films, Easy Rider (1969), which defined a generation of 'hippie' culture and attitude, the film's hallucinogenic imagery backed by a driving rock soundtrack.
This new generation of Egyptian musicians displays attitude and sings in modern urban slang with little regard for convention.
They receive intensive training from the project's extension worker, aiming at the generation of a progress-driven attitude and at conducting experiments on their fields.
