Unicorns are under scrutiny essentially because they embody over-ambitious valuations.
He made a short, classy speech and then laughed off all the "greatest actor/human ever" talk as "daft," before paying credit to his wife for putting up with all the "very strange men" he has made it his job to embody over the course of his career.
The aesthetic is fun, classic and effortless -- in that sense, it reflects attributes that all my style icons have embodied over the years.
So it has hardly seemed blasphemy to have had the Callas of "Master Class" embodied over the years by actresses as different from their prototype (and from one another) as Patti LuPone, Faye Dunaway, Dixie Carter and Fanny Ardant.
Mr. Haynes said, "Bob Dylan is somebody who has continued to reject various personas that he has embodied over the years".
The expulsion of Sepp Blatter by Fifa itself has emphatically ended an era at football's world governing body but huge work remains to cleanse the overblown, questionable culture Blatter shaped and embodied over 40 years in Zurich.
This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
While it's not explicitly topical — unlike, say, James Rosenquist's "F-111" or Andy Warhol's paintings of racial conflict in the South — it prophetically embodies the apocalyptic feeling looming over the United States in that decade of sociopolitical and spiritual tumult.
The immediate question the new episodes raise is: how was it possible for "Ab Fab" -- such a hit for the BBC that it has been more or less waiting for Ms. Saunders to produce more episodes -- to find a fresh approach to a comedy that so embodied the over-the-top 1990's?
StarCraft II embodies it.
