IN front of 114 East 37th Street, for example, she spotted a coal-chute cover of an anonymous foundry that sported a raised star, bubble-like dots and a ring of diamond shapes.
Lucas paid his respects to his frequent collaborator by crediting Williams's music for raising Star Wars to "a level of popular art that would stand the test of time".
To be a rebel you need a society to rebel against, a Man to kick in the nuts, and - as Doherty found - the figure of the drug-taking, hell-raising star isn't so much counter-cultural these days as a vital source of mainstream entertainment.
Private corporate investors followed suit, and cut-throat competition dramatically raised star-player salaries.
This was as overriding an existential issue for Burns as it obviously is now: why does the media, which raises stars, drop them?
The ICA said it saw this as a sign they belonged to a "sincere and unsensationalist" generation of artists, after the headline-grabbing iconoclasm of Brit Art and its hell-raising stars, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
But President Bush's squad of Rangers, fund-raisers who pledge to collect at least $200,000 for his re-election campaign, are already outpacing the brisk levels of 2000, and Howard Dean has used the Internet to become one of the biggest Democratic money-raising stars ever.
Companies assume that parents who dream of raising stars of their own will delight in knowing about the precedents set by little Mark Walker or Mitchie Brusco and will want to track their careers, if only to pick up a few tips.
As there is no fusion to further raise the star's temperature to support it against collapse, it is supported only by degeneracy pressure of electrons.
I'm old enough to remember when they were, at least to a 1980s kid raised on "Star Wars" and "Jem and the Holograms".
