21.   But the program quickly took his celebrity to a new level, transforming him into a cultural icon.

22.   Certainly, France has a tradition of worshipping at the altar of its cultural icons.

23.   Che is a cultural icon today largely because the era he typified left cultural tracks much more than political ones.

24.   Extensive marketing, features in newspapers and magazines and other promotions have turned the Teletubbies into cultural icons.

25.   Gloria Estefan, the wildly popular singer of Cuban descent who has become an entertainment and cultural icon, was also suspicious of this visit.

26.   Genji is an unusual Japanese cultural icon and his latest chronicler is if anything even more startling.

27.   He arranges stuffed animals in sexually suggestive positions, displays an infantile fascination with body functions and defiles pictures of such cultural icons as Abraham Lincoln.

28.   He has frequently clashed with such cultural icons as the BBC and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

29.   He made Boris Karloff a star, and the flat-headed, heavy-browed Monster a cultural icon.

30.   He prefers to argue that Jesus is a cultural icon, on a par with Freud or Einstein.