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* "the ... of" Vossantos

- [[file:method.org][method description]] including source code
- [[file:statistics.org][statistics]] (frequent sources, modifiers, etc.)

The following list of annotated sentences constitutes the current (and
continuously updated) dataset used for creating statistics and
derivative datasets (e.g., for our [[file:theof/][2019 DSH paper]]).

/(Note: unfortunately, GitHub does not render the complete list. Get
it as a [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weltliteratur/vossanto/master/theof/README.org][raw org-file]].)/

* results

** 1987
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83484][Anthony Quinn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/02/theater/broadway.html][1987/01/02/0000232]]) ''I sometimes feel like *the Anthony Quinn of* /my set/.''
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/02/sports/scouting-true-blue.html][1987/01/02/0000431]]) Jimmy Johnson is *the Madonna of* /college football these days/.
3. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/02/sports/scouting-true-blue.html][1987/01/02/0000431]]) LEAD: Jimmy Johnson is *the Madonna of* /college football these days/.+ (D)
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292601][Don Fernando]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/03/arts/opera-altmeyer-in-fidelio-at-met.html][1987/01/03/0000610]]) The other casting novelty was *the Don Fernando of* Richard J. Clark, his first at the Met.+
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51123][D. W. Griffith]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/18/magazine/clarke-work.html][1987/01/18/0004444]]) The former, *the D. W. Griffith of* /the avant-garde/, presents spectacular epics or ''operas,'' the latter, an autobiographical monologist, sits at a card table and tells stories from his life.
6. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q540087][Archibald James Campbell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/19/sports/outdoors-tying-way-to-fame.html][1987/01/19/0005039]]) Who can identify *the Campbell of* Campbell's Fancy, the Wickham of Wickham's Fancy, the Greenwell of Greenwell's Glory?+
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191499][Scott Joplin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/20/arts/music-bolcom-and-morris.html][1987/01/20/0005135]]) High points of the show included the obscure Cole Porter bonbons, ''Two Little Babes In the Wood'' and ''Nobody's Chasing Me,'' Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's ''I'm Just Wild About Harry'' (performed both as a waltz and as a one-step to show how a simple time change can alter a song's character), and piano compositions by Ernesto Nazareth, ''*the Scott Joplin of* /Brazil/,'' that blended ragtime and tango.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1341644][Rich Little]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/21/sports/super-bowl-xxi-unrushed-backups-playing-quiet-roles.html][1987/01/21/0005602]]) A backup quarterback is *the Rich Little of* /football/, spending the week before a game doing an impression of the opposing team's quarterback.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34529][Bela Lugosi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/us/washington-talk-briefing-by-these-names.html][1987/01/29/0008167]]) Mr. Reagan fares far better, nicknamewise, than some other Presidents in the compendium, including one known as Gloomy Gus, King Richard, *the Bela Lugosi of* /American Politics/, Richard the Chicken-Hearted, the Nero of Our Times, the Tarnished President, the Godfather, St. Richard the Commie Killer, President Truthful and Trickie Dick.
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93188][Errol Flynn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/us/washington-talk-briefing-by-these-names.html][1987/01/29/0008167]]) He is also known by less flattering terms, such as the Aging Right Wing Actor, the Not So Favor-ite Son and *the Errol Flynn of* /the B's/.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1413][Nero]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/us/washington-talk-briefing-by-these-names.html][1987/01/29/0008167]]) Mr. Reagan fares far better, nicknamewise, than some other Presidents in the compendium, including one known as Gloomy Gus, King Richard, the Bela Lugosi of American Politics, Richard the Chicken-Hearted, *the Nero of* /Our Times/, the Tarnished President, the Godfather, St. Richard the Commie Killer, President Truthful and Trickie Dick.
12. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335232][E. L. Doctorow]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/31/books/books-of-the-times-a-complex-simple-man.html][1987/01/31/0008693]]) Just as the Czechoslovak composer incorporated such themes into his ''New World'' Symphony, so Mr. Skvorecky, a Czechoslovak author, brings to this ''first attempt at writing a historical and biographical novel'' echoes of American writers of the period from Bret Harte to William Dean Howells, with a nod to *the E. L. Doctorow of* ''Ragtime.''+
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9358][Friedrich Nietzsche]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/books/passionate-beholder-of-america-in-trouble.html][1987/02/08/0011389]]) He is something like a parody of Nietzsche, not *the Nietzsche of* ''The Genealogy of Morals'' but of ''Ecce Homo.''+
14. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/books/looking-for-lincoln-in-the-1980-s.html][1987/02/08/0011420]]) AT the Gettysburg cemetery, *the Abraham Lincoln of* Gore Vidal's novel barely gets through his first sentence - about the events in America ''four score and seven years ago'' - when the young Presidential secretary, John Hay, cynically observes that such rhetoric ''will please the radicals.''+
15. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/books/looking-for-lincoln-in-the-1980-s.html][1987/02/08/0011420]]) LEAD: AT the Gettysburg cemetery, *the Abraham Lincoln of* Gore Vidal's novel barely gets through his first sentence - about the events in America ''four score and seven years ago'' - when the young Presidential secretary, John Hay, cynically observes that such rhetoric ''will please the radicals.''+
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1126679][The Scarlet Pimpernel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/nyregion/art-photographs-from-the-weimar-republic.html][1987/02/08/0011467]]) The son of a banker, Salomon became *the Scarlet Pimpernel of* /photojournalism/ by virtue of the adroitness with which he could conceal his camera when necessary.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452206][Judith Krantz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/theater/stage-view-a-play-that-never-played-by-2-masters-of-satire.html][1987/02/08/0011487]]) The heroine of the play is Diana Breed Latimer, a best-selling author of romantic fiction, *the Judith Krantz of* /her day/.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128746][Irving Berlin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/08/theater/me-and-my-girl-on-disk-captures-giddy-lilt-of-show.html][1987/02/08/0011525]]) Noel Gay was not, as some have claimed, *the Irving Berlin of* /England/.
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209050][Jan Brueghel the Elder]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/13/arts/art-14-pictographs-from-adoph-gottlieb.html][1987/02/13/0012870]]) Subjects like ''Flora'' and ''The Four Senses'' cause him to come on like *the Velvet Brueghel of* /his set/, putting his trust in multiplicity of subject matter and a high degree of finish.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/18/nyregion/amid-protest-bumpurs-case-nears-its-end.html][1987/02/18/0014363]]) Contending that Dr. Osborne had set himself up as judge, police expert and hand surgeon, Mr. Smirti called him *the Leonardo da Vinci of* /the Bronx/.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/28/sports/mets-notebook-mcreynolds-keeps-a-very-low-profile.html][1987/02/28/0017372]]) It was enough to make people wonder if McReynolds would adjust to the customary passion of the Mets or become *the Greta Garbo of* /New York baseball/, wanting to be alone in a city and business where it was not easy to be alone.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295107][Mr. T]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/01/us/washngton-talk-come-the-weekend-it-s-talk-show-city.html][1987/03/01/0017607]]) President Reagan is said to be a great fan of the ''McLaughlin Group'' and has called Mr. McLaughlin ''*the Mr. T of* /TV journalism/.''
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190152][Larry Bird]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/01/sports/college-basketball-87-shelly-pennefather-villanova-equation-has-a-key-factor.html][1987/03/01/0017800]]) Peretta and other observers have so much respect for Pennefather's varied skills that round the league she has been dubbed ''*the Larry Bird of* /women's basketball/.''
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5237521][David Merrick]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/02/theater/miserables-already-a-financial-hit.html][1987/03/02/0018082]]) Mr. Mackintosh's credits include ''Side by Side by Sondheim,'' ''Little Shop of Horrors,'' ''Cats'' and ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' and some colleagues call him *the David Merrick of* /today's theater/.
25. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152505][Leonard Bernstein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/03/arts/concert-milwaukee-symphony.html][1987/03/03/0018205]]) It began with Debussy-like textures, and integrated bits of Caribbean pop music in a style that recalled *the Leonard Bernstein of* ''West Side Story.''+
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1409][Caligula]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/08/books/baseball-s-ruling-servant.html][1987/03/08/0019639]]) He's less well inclined toward such baseball personalities as Bill Veeck, who owned the Chicago White Sox during Mr. Kuhn's tenure and whom the commissioner considered something of a fraud (what really went on between the two men was a culture clash, the encounter of a banker and a street peddler); George Steinbrenner, the owner of the New York Yankees, whose antics unnerved Mr. Kuhn just as much as one would expect; August Busch Jr., the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, whose decisions seemed dictated less by what was good for baseball than by how many cases of Budweiser it might sell; and various other owners - especially Charles O. Finley, *the Caligula of* /the Oakland A's/ -whose codes of style and behavior offended Mr. Kuhn's smothering sense of decorum.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327071][Paul Revere]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/13/nyregion/our-towns-trash-from-li-sits-uneasily-in-upstate-dump.html][1987/03/13/0021181]]) Mr. Blake, a retired businessman, became *the Paul Revere of* /Summit trash/.
28. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4355634][Nora Kaye]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/15/arts/dance-view-nora-kaye-the-inimitable-dramatic-ballerina.html][1987/03/15/0021484]]) While it is inaccurate to consider her as only a Tudor dancer, *the Nora Kaye of* every dance history book is epitomized by the image on this page - in her role as Hagar, the frightened spinster of ''Pillar of Fire.''+
29. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9960][Ronald Reagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/20/us/facing-nation-president-chastened-but-unrepentant-offers-little-new-his.html][1987/03/20/0023137]]) But after about a half-dozen questions, he seemed to hit his stride, answering at some length and with considerably more composure, even though he never oozed self-confidence like *the Ronald Reagan of* old.+
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q158067][Vivienne Westwood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/24/style/notes-on-fashion.html][1987/03/24/0024133]]) AT one of the first and most energetic fashion shows here last week, a laugh-a-minute presentation at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts by *the Vivienne Westwood of* /Paris/, Jean-Remy Daumas, there were the town's most frivolous fashion trappings: Mohican fur headpieces and doggy-ear hoods, heart-shaped backpacks, pillowcases reading Oui!
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/27/arts/restaurants-442887.html][1987/03/27/0024878]]) If you are a fan of brains, you will no doubt get your fill with this enormous portion, which must come from *the Einstein of* /the calf world/.
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q966018][Frank Loesser]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/theater/theater-broadway-the-empire-strikes-back.html][1987/03/29/0025359]]) It originated in a much different form in Paris, and its principal authors, Claude-Michel Schonberg (music) and Alain Boublil (book) are Frenchmen, influenced as much by Bizet as by Kurt Weill, *the Frank Loesser of* ''The Most Happy Fella,'' and, in their use of pop-opera conventions, Mr. Lloyd Webber.+
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2857682][Clemente Susini]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/arts/art-view-sculpture-as-a-high-wire-performance.html][1987/03/29/0025364]]) In her sculptures of the last eight or 10 years she has, in effect, been both *the Clemente Susini of* /our day/ and -what is more difficult - the inventor of the anatomies that she puts together with such a dexterous hand.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294912][Richard Pryor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/08/nyregion/new-aids-battlefield-addicts-world.html][1987/04/08/0028366]]) So Mr. Johnson moves through Harlem, clinical and profane in equal measure, acting as *the Richard Pryor of* /the safe sex set/.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3925][Grace Kelly]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/us/woman-is-to-head-editors-society.html][1987/04/11/0029124]]) Local society columnists, much taken with her glamour and her new husband's social prominence, dubbed her ''*the Grace Kelly of* /Chicago/.''
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/12/magazine/on-language.html][1987/04/12/0029177]]) I saw myself as *the Johnny Appleseed of* /linguistics/, persuading hotel owners to put dictionaries in rooms everywhere, enabling weary travelers to look up the meanings and spellings of words used in late-night X-rated movies.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220210][George Steinbrenner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/12/nyregion/waterfront-race-drawing-top-names.html][1987/04/12/0029256]]) ''They are *the George Steinbrenner of* /marathons/ because they go out and buy as many names as they can, regardless of what the athlete's current condition is.
38. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61059][Ira Gershwin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/16/arts/stage-barbara-cook-in-song-and-memories.html][1987/04/16/0030666]]) Miss Cook's unflagging musicianship honors composers as various as Gershwin, Berlin and Sondheim, and her affection for lyricists, from *the Ira Gershwin of* ''A Foggy Day'' to the Sheldon Harnick of ''Dear Friend,'' is nearly as intense.+
39. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2354471][Sheldon Harnick]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/16/arts/stage-barbara-cook-in-song-and-memories.html][1987/04/16/0030666]]) Miss Cook's unflagging musicianship honors composers as various as Gershwin, Berlin and Sondheim, and her affection for lyricists, from the Ira Gershwin of ''A Foggy Day'' to *the Sheldon Harnick of* ''Dear Friend,'' is nearly as intense.+
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43247][Ingrid Bergman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/19/magazine/about-men-life-with-trixie.html][1987/04/19/0031974]]) He had called her Tiffany, which is fine for a call girl, but not right for *the Ingrid Bergman of* /dogs/.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4030][Duke Ellington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/22/arts/going-out-guide.html][1987/04/22/0032772]]) He has attributed some of his stylistic inspiration to Bud Powell and McCoy Tyner, but his creation of salsa concerto-style compositions led to his being regarded by some as *the Duke Ellington of* /salsa/.
42. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511][Richard Wagner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/30/arts/concert-early-music-orchestra.html][1987/04/30/0035386]]) It was something to compare in evocative sonority with *the Wagner of* ''Siegfried.''+
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453251][Horatio Alger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/30/nyregion/defendant-linked-to-mob-murder-plot.html][1987/04/30/0035452]]) Mr. Chertoff called Mr. Massino ''*the Horatio Alger of* /the Mafia/.''
44. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1076161][Dwight Gooden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/30/sports/now-gooden-makes-toughest-start.html][1987/04/30/0035517]]) As long as he goes back to being *the Dwight Gooden of* the past, the one who was a winner, he'll be O.K.''+
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453251][Horatio Alger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/arts/home-video-documentary.html][1987/05/03/0036349]]) Mr. Fisher, of course, is the former chicken farmer who became *the Horatio Alger of* /undersea treasure hunters/.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q431223][Oliver North]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/books/trouble-in-river-city.html][1987/05/03/0036472]]) In the Luce tradition, Mr. Malkin can coin a phrase: the economist Arthur Laffer is ''*the Oliver North of* /Reaganomics/''; Milton Friedman is ''one of those brilliant one-idea cranks''; and President Reagan's alma mater is the ''providentially named Eureka College.''
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/magazine/maxim-s-name-is-the-game.html][1987/05/03/0036760]]) This steady stream of income from the exploitation of a name synonymous with high fashion has earned him a sobriquet, *the Napoleon of* /licensors/.
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919448][Gary Hart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/06/opinion/the-issue-is-not-morality-it-s-candor.html][1987/05/06/0037724]]) The voters only remember *the Gary Hart of* the 1984 primary season - ''new ideas'' that nobody could find.+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/10/arts/music-view-music-must-be-more-than-ritual.html][1987/05/10/0038761]]) Along with the thousands of failures, a few ritualistic pieces of musical consequence were produced, several by *the Mozart of* /the idiom/, George Crumb.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q541526][Robert Wilson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/10/theater/vienna-the-avant-garde-advances-earning-applause-and-ruffling-feathers.html][1987/05/10/0038816]]) Mr. Freyer, who is also a painter and is sometimes called *the Robert Wilson of* /Germany/, is best known for his stagings of Philip Glass's ''Satyagraha'' and ''Akhnaten'' in Stuttgart, but he has also directed and designed works as diverse as Mozart's ''Zauberflote'' for Hamburg, Weber's ''Freischutz'' for Stuttgart and Handel's ''Messiah'' for West Berlin.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9696][John F. Kennedy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/10/books/psychobiography-of-a-maestro.html][1987/05/10/0039183]]) In the 60's Mr. Bernstein looked like *the John F. Kennedy of* /culture/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722059][Walter Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/13/sports/japan-cheers-for-star-with-staying-power.html][1987/05/13/0039886]]) So was Masaichi Kaneda, *the Walter Johnson of* /Japan/ with 400 career victories.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315808][Neil Simon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/15/arts/satiric-1649-opera-giasone-at-mannes.html][1987/05/15/0040577]]) Cavalli's librettist, Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, was ''*the Neil Simon of* /Venetian comedy/,'' Mr. Echols said.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297142][Joe DiMaggio]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/16/theater/the-stage-in-revival-wish-you-were-here.html][1987/05/16/0040728]]) *the Joe DiMaggio of* /love/,'' he fantasizes while flexing a bicep that refuses to bulge
55. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453251][Horatio Alger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/17/business/what-s-new-in-exotic-fruit-putting-a-kiwi-in-every-lunch-box.html][1987/05/17/0041016]]) LEAD: WHAT drives the marketers is the dream of finding the next kiwi, *the Horatio Alger of* /exotic fruit/.+ (D)
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453251][Horatio Alger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/17/business/what-s-new-in-exotic-fruit-putting-a-kiwi-in-every-lunch-box.html][1987/05/17/0041016]]) WHAT drives the marketers is the dream of finding the next kiwi, *the Horatio Alger of* /exotic fruit/.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714892][Bernhard Goetz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/21/world/attack-on-the-stark-answers-to-key-questions-are-beginning-to-emerge.html][1987/05/21/0042597]]) A former Navy official was quoted by The Baltimore Sun as saying the Stark's captain would have been seen as ''*the Bernhard Goetz of* /the Persian Gulf/.''
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3097952][Walter Winchell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/22/books/books-of-the-times-756887.html][1987/05/22/0042798]]) A recent historian has described Bald as ''the Boswell of the Lost Generation,'' but Root disagrees: ''In my opinion '*the Walter Winchell of* /the Lost Generation/' would have been more like it.''
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/22/business/a-black-s-climb-to-executive-suite.html][1987/05/22/0042958]]) He added, ''In short, he is *the Jackie Robinson of* /the corporate world/.''
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/23/sports/sports-of-the-times-hockey-as-it-oughta-be.html][1987/05/23/0043074]]) What would Eddie Shore, known as *the Babe Ruth of* /hockey/, have said about this?
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/24/nyregion/dining-out-french-and-oriental-combined.html][1987/05/24/0043683]]) HOMER LEE is *the Woody Allen of* /Long Island restaurateurs/.
62. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/24/nyregion/dining-out-french-and-oriental-combined.html][1987/05/24/0043683]]) LEAD: HOMER LEE is *the Woody Allen of* /Long Island restaurateurs/.+ (D)
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506146][George Jessel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/27/arts/stage-political-comedy.html][1987/05/27/0044042]]) Compared to the younger smoothies, Mr. Altman, who called himself ''*the George Jessel of* /intellectuals/,'' addressed the audience from the standpoint of an embattled, aging hipster commenting amusingly on everything from the relationship between food and language to condom advertising.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1270178][George Will]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/27/us/washington-talk-press-corps-japanese-gain-perspective-covering-america.html][1987/05/27/0044071]]) Some go back to Japan to become celebrities; for example, after six years in Washington, Yoshihisa Komori is now considered *the George Will of* /newspaper columnists in Japan/.
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1287084][Tom Seaver]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/sports/sports-of-the-times-tommy-john-on-tom-seaver.html][1987/06/10/0048027]]) ''Granted, *the Tom Seaver of* today won't be the Tom Seaver of years ago.+
66. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1287084][Tom Seaver]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/sports/sports-of-the-times-tommy-john-on-tom-seaver.html][1987/06/10/0048027]]) ''Granted, the Tom Seaver of today won't be *the Tom Seaver of* years ago.+
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2596171][John Henry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/sports/scouting-lucky-horseshoe.html][1987/06/10/0048033]]) ''He's a horse who's had serious physical problems,'' said Dr. Lee, who treats human patients - including athletes from horse racing, basketball, football and boxing - at his office in South Orange, N.J. ''I call him *the John Henry of* /the trotting set/.
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/14/world/comments-by-pope-irk-polish-party.html][1987/06/14/0048928]]) Before going to the monastery, which houses *the Madonna of* Czestochwa, Poland's patroness, John Paul had delivered a series of speeches about Solidarity in the Baltic shipyard cities where the now-outlawed labor movement was born.+
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733027][Dan Rather]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/18/us/dairy-queens-fill-big-void-in-small-town-texas.html][1987/06/18/0049974]]) She might be called *the Dan Rather of* /Shackelford County/, receiving and transmitting news and gossip with incredible speed and efficiency.
70. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239533][Ma Rainey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/19/theater/stage-late-great-ladies-a-one-woman-show.html][1987/06/19/0050233]]) For her final salute to Mahalia Jackson, she strikes a pietistic pose, but, in style, her version of this gospel singer is not so far removed from *the Ma Rainey of* the first act.+
71. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/19/arts/art-french-academics-at-the-sheperd-gallery.html][1987/06/19/0050261]]) 2'' that bespeaks *the Picasso of* ''Guernica.''+
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187765][Henry Miller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/books/something-rotten-in-norway.html][1987/06/21/0050669]]) Judging by the author's systematic peppering of his brief plot with gamey episodes of sexual improvisation, and by the hero's awesome arousability (a fleeting memory, an unseemly word, and he is in the manly state), one might think Mr. Faldbakken aspires to become *the Henry Miller of* /Norway/.
73. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131725][Joan Baez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/books/life-on-struggle-mountain.html][1987/06/21/0050676]]) One can't always like *the Joan Baez of* this autobiography.+
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347528][Liberace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/26/arts/herbie-hancock-trio.html][1987/06/26/0052031]]) With a lot of flashy filigree and little swing or melodic inventiveness, Mr. Jordan threatens to become *the Liberace of* /guitar/.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322555][Abner Doubleday]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/28/nyregion/long-island-journal-170187.html][1987/06/28/0052404]]) ''I wrote them,'' said Mr. Perrone, *the Abner Doubleday of* /Play Ball/.
76. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q562705][Capone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/28/movies/new-york-untouchables-lurches-between-playing-it-straight-and-playing-it-cool.html][1987/06/28/0052644]]) But it doesn't sufficiently allow for the Napoleonic element in Capone (*the Capone of* cinematic myth, that is, not the real man), and it doesn't permit him to dominate the action as ferociously as he does in most movie versions of the legend.+
77. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40912][Frank Sinatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/29/nyregion/japan-s-sinatra-sings-for-fans-in-new-york.html][1987/06/29/0052991]]) LEAD: The women had traveled 12,000 miles, all the way from Tokyo, and when they arrived in Manhattan yesterday, they had one man's name on their lips - Hiroshi Itsuki, *the Frank Sinatra of* /Japan/.+ (D)
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40912][Frank Sinatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/29/nyregion/japan-s-sinatra-sings-for-fans-in-new-york.html][1987/06/29/0052991]]) The women had traveled 12,000 miles, all the way from Tokyo, and when they arrived in Manhattan yesterday, they had one man's name on their lips - Hiroshi Itsuki, *the Frank Sinatra of* /Japan/.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508574][Billy Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/03/arts/restaurants-392887.html][1987/07/03/0053903]]) LESLIE REVSIN, *the Billy Martin of* /New York City chefs/, is back with a new team -her sixth since 1979.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3369419][Patrick Dupond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/05/arts/ballet-the-bolshoi-offers-a-program-of-excerpts.html][1987/07/05/0054304]]) Andris Liepa, the son of Maris Liepa, is an exciting classical dancer with a very contemporary veneer, *the Patrick Dupond of* /Moscow/ but with a poetic edge.
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40912][Frank Sinatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/05/weekinreview/headliners-heartthrob.html][1987/07/05/0054412]]) Mr. Itsuki, who is known as *the Frank Sinatra of* /Japan/, was trailed by 180 of his most devoted Japanese fans, mostly unmarried middle-aged women, who paid $5,500 each to make the trip.
82. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7317][Giuseppe Verdi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/19/arts/l-vocal-technique-325987.html][1987/07/19/0057826]]) One problem today is a lack of voices adequate for Wagner and even *the Verdi of* ''Aida.''+
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93284][Marc Chagall]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/24/arts/art-chagall-s-bible-illustrations-and-naive-works-by-israelis.html][1987/07/24/0059580]]) These paintings suggest that *the Chagall of* the Old Testament was not so much an artist in decline as one overawed by his subject - and if this is understandable, it is also regrettable.+
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/26/realestate/habitat-a-lonely-leader-in-housing.html][1987/07/26/0059941]]) Mr. Safdie was described as *the Henry Ford of* /housing/.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/27/books/books-of-the-times-717587.html][1987/07/27/0060318]]) Venice reminds him of ''Othello,'' and prompts an analysis of the tragedy that ends: ''Othello was *the Jackie Robinson of* /his day/.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q772302][Paul Harvey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/15/opinion/observer-watery-room-of-horrors.html][1987/08/15/0066105]]) Gabriel Heatter was *the Paul Harvey of* /his era/, but without Paul Harvey's understated subtlety.
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/22/books/books-of-the-times-the-dark-side-of-virtue.html][1987/08/22/0068198]]) Mr. Coover's latest novel, ''Whatever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears'' is set in the 1930's, rather than the 50's, but it stands as a book end of sorts to ''The Public Burning,'' and it features a hero who's a twin brother to *the Nixon of* that earlier novel.+
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/23/movies/film-john-sayles-mines-the-coal-wars.html][1987/08/23/0068396]]) Sort of *the Woody Allen of* /Hoboken/, Mr. Sayles uses many of his regulars -Maggie Renzi, David Strathairn, Josh Mostel, Nancy Mette - in ''Matewan,'' but he also makes maximum advantage of a deep-voiced newcomer named James Earl Jones, who does his best not to dominate the screen as the natural leader of the black miners.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739866][Pete Rose]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/23/nyregion/reluctant-candidate-headed-for-congress.html][1987/08/23/0068626]]) ''Shays is *the Pete Rose of* /the Connecticut Republican Party/, hustle, hustle, hustle,'' said Robert S. Poliner, the Connecticut Republican state chairman, who called the win ''a tremendous shot in the arm'' for the Connecticut Republican Party and a ''good sign nationally'' for the party.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296647][Ralph Lauren]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/06/magazine/the-swagger-of-christian-lacroix.html][1987/09/06/0072173]]) ''Ah well - but I might become *the Ralph Lauren of* /the Camargue/.''
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225][Bruce Springsteen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/07/nyregion/metro-matters-cuomo-s-travels-seclusion-gauges-a-political-style.html][1987/09/07/0072432]]) What's more, Mr. Fryer added, the Governor is ''*the Bruce Springsteen of* /politics/.''
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49216][Walter Mondale]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/07/world/3-countries-tangle-election-campaigning-denmark-ex-prime-minister-enlivens-dull.html][1987/09/07/0072470]]) It came from an unlikely source - Anker Jorgensen, an earnest but unexciting man usually cast as *the Walter Mondale of* /Danish politics/.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41749][Joseph Goebbels]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/09/world/key-aquino-adviser-is-questioned-by-legislators.html][1987/09/09/0072923]]) But he showed little regard for the army, whose spokesman he likened several times to Hitler's propaganda chief, calling him ''*the Goebbels of* Aguinaldo.''+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41749][Joseph Goebbels]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/10/world/philippine-cabinet-resigns-en-masse.html][1987/09/10/0073045]]) Military officers were also offended by Mr. Arroyo's characterization of the army spokesman, Col. Honesto Isleta, as ''*the Goebbels of* /Aguinaldo/.''
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q697096][Cecil Beaton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/11/style/a-british-master-s-floral-extravagnazas.html][1987/09/11/0073363]]) ''I want to be *the Cecil Beaton of* /the flower world/.''
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171826][Alfred Dreyfus]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/13/books/crimes-of-the-rich-cont.html][1987/09/13/0073979]]) school of crime reporting; and a third, the novelist Michael Mewshaw, who, in ''Money to Burn,'' is so bent on making Steven Benson *the Alfred Dreyfus of* /southwest Florida/ that he inflates what could have been a chapter of sharp-eyed criticism into a book-length orgy of nit-picking.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332032][Alice Cooper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/16/nyregion/about-new-york-a-rock-wizard-hopes-glasnost-means-mr-ed.html][1987/09/16/0074975]]) What became an intergallactic dud was ''*the Alice Cooper of* /comets/,'' according to Mr. Schaffer's publicity.
98. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3195071][Ken O'Brien]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/sports/nfl-matchups-week-two-saints-shooting-for-their-best-finish-ever.html][1987/09/18/0075362]]) Both teams' passers - Steve Grogan, replacing Tony Eason, and Ken O'Brien, replacing *the Ken O'Brien of* 1986 - will pass and pass.+
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3128961][Roone Arledge]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/19/world/london-journal-american-football-fans-often-are-not-amused.html][1987/09/19/0075504]]) Mr. Brandon, the 37-year-old founder of Cheerleader Productions, can be thought of as *the Roone Arledge of* /Britain/.
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319648][Ray Kroc]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/20/business/the-big-mac-of-adult-education.html][1987/09/20/0075758]]) THE vision that Mr. Zanker's energy serves is as simple as it is grandiose: He would like to be *the Ray Kroc of* /adult education/.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/20/arts/dance-view-after-the-great-leaps-baryshnikov-moves-on.html][1987/09/20/0076210]]) If he is not exactly *the Elvis Presley of* /ballet/, Mr. Baryshnikov demonstrates a popular appeal that reaches far beyond the usual ballet audience.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6218491][John Alden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/20/opinion/essay-tongue-tied-inquisitor.html][1987/09/20/0076271]]) But you would not know that Senator Kennedy remains *the John Alden of* /American politics/ unless you watched his part of the hearings in its entirety.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127494][Ozzie Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/21/nyregion/see-that-googly-it-s-cricket-in-the-bronx.html][1987/09/21/0076371]]) ''He was *the Ozzie Smith of* /the West Indies/,'' the spectator said, referring to the St. Louis Cardinals' shortstop who is a premier fielder.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5928][Jimi Hendrix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/25/arts/pop-and-jazz-guide-362887.html][1987/09/25/0077266]]) For Roger Miller, it's as much an electronic instrument as the electric guitar - and he's set out to become *the Jimi Hendrix of* /the electric piano/.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/26/world/reagan-faulting-peace-bid-insists-on-new-contra-aid.html][1987/09/26/0077581]]) ''Remember back when they were trying to tell us in certain areas of the media that Castro was *the George Washington of* /Cuba/?''
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1203][John Lennon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/27/arts/pop-view-peter-tosh-reggae-s-rebel.html][1987/09/27/0077678]]) He was *the John Lennon of* /the Wailers/, sometimes abrasive and sometimes erratic and always outspoken, even when being outspoken didn't always serve his best purposes.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103846][Groucho Marx]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/27/books/science-technology-who-ordered-the-muon.html][1987/09/27/0077726]]) But the tide eventually shifted, partly because the supreme materialist of physics, Richard Feynman of the California Institute of Technology, a man once described as *the Groucho Marx of* /physics/, turned the quest for nuclear substructure into a cause celebre.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60809][Ansel Adams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/07/garden/wine-talk-766787.html][1987/10/07/0080556]]) Leonard Humbrecht is *the Ansel Adams of* /Alsace wine makers/.
109. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5921][Chuck Berry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/18/books/the-spirit-of-a-rocker.html][1987/10/18/0084053]]) He admits that he felt burned by early business dealings, that he frequently fails to rehearse with the bands that back him and that he often refuses encores, but *the Chuck Berry of* these pages takes an obvious delight in his music and the success it has brought him.+
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7704665][Terry Leach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/26/sports/question-box.html][1987/10/26/0086630]]) The Yankees won their Series debut, 3-0, behind the submarine pitching of Carl Mays, *the Terry Leach of* /his day/.
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152505][Leonard Bernstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/01/theater/theater-how-a-bold-director-has-transformed-a-regional-theater.html][1987/11/01/0088343]]) So while Marshall W. Mason commenced a long leave of absence from New York's Circle Repertory Company (he resigned last year), and Gordon Davidson did the same from the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Mr. Hall, at 55, began doing double duty, announcing with typical bravado that he planned to be ''*the Lenny Bernstein of* /the theater world/.''
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/03/us/washington-talk-profile-a-view-that-s-as-rosy-as-red-ink-stephen-marris.html][1987/11/03/0089082]]) In a sense he is, as *the Cassandra of* /Dupont Circle/.
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/11/garden/from-one-cookbook-an-expert-chef-was-made.html][1987/11/11/0091723]]) A letter to Ruth Sirkis - ''*the Julia Child of* /Israel/,'' according to Ms. Levy - led to a two-year stint as her assistant.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72267][Cecil B. DeMille]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/11/arts/impact-of-the-prince-of-prints.html][1987/11/11/0091729]]) Mr. Tyler has been called *the Cecil B. DeMille of* /printmakers/, and a Detroit production-liner in a handcraft trade.
115. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552245][Burial]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/12/world/israel-examines-death-of-arab-held-by-shin-beth.html][1987/11/12/0092121]]) Critic's Notebook; Bottom-Line Economics and *the Burial of* Opera+
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41871][Paul Newman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/14/sports/knicks-foul-up-bullets-convert.html][1987/11/14/0092773]]) ''If Bill Laimbeer is good at acting to get calls, then Moses Malone is *the Paul Newman of* /professional basketball/,'' Pitino said.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9041][James Watt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/15/nyregion/new-jersey-opinion-consumer-agency-needs-restructuring.html][1987/11/15/0092897]]) I don't think it is going too far to call Mr. Scanlon ''*the James Watt of* /consumer protection/.''
118. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6210713][Joe Klecko]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/16/sports/mcneil-klecko-power-the-jets.html][1987/11/16/0093505]]) ''It helped me feel just like *the Joe Klecko of* old,'' he said.+
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231417][Barbara Walters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/20/nyregion/a-reporter-brings-glasnost-to-connecticut.html][1987/11/20/0094729]]) She said she has been a television reporter for 22 years but disagreed with Mr. Moffett's description of her as ''*the Barbara Walters of* /Soviet television/.''
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/23/nyregion/recapturing-the-high-school-glory-days.html][1987/11/23/0095650]]) ''He was known as *the Elvis of* /Torrington/.
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35286][Warren G. Harding]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/03/opinion/l-time-for-somebody-to-defend-herbert-hoover-539087.html][1987/12/03/0098477]]) To me the President has for years seemed to be *the Warren G. Harding of* /our time/, not the Herbert Hoover.
122. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131725][Joan Baez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/06/books/notable-books-of-the-year.html][1987/12/06/0099401]]) ''One can't always like *the Joan Baez of* this autobiography.+
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739866][Pete Rose]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/07/us/washington-talk-briefing-the-100-cases-club.html][1987/12/07/0099935]]) Whatever the count, Mr. Wallace, 56 years old, still has a chance to become *the Pete Rose of* /legal argumentation/.
124. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15052254][Peter Parnell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/11/theater/stage-only-you-by-timothy-mason.html][1987/12/11/0100814]]) One might suggest that in his play, Mr. Mason aspires to be Mr. Durang (or *the Peter Parnell of* ''The Sorrows of Stephen'').+
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807][Ed Sullivan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/13/arts/television-fresh-voices-hope-to-be-far-from-wobegon.html][1987/12/13/0101324]]) But Mr. Schmidt, too, wonders about Mr. Adams's future role: ''I see him more as the facilitator, the introducer, kind of *the Ed Sullivan of* /the program/.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2331870][M. L. Carr]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/18/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-touch-of-tradition.html][1987/12/18/0102667]]) - won the Super Bowl with a former Navy helicopter pilot named Phil McConkey running up and down the sidelines waving a flag, *the M. L. Carr of* /the swamplands/.
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/20/books/higher-and-yet-higher.html][1987/12/20/0103276]]) If, as the author tells us, the deal is an art form, then the book makes clear that Mr. Trump sees himself as *the Michelangelo of* /that form/.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103846][Groucho Marx]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/22/nyregion/ranking-santas-grading-their-beards-and-the-twinkle.html][1987/12/22/0103904]]) This season they have hidden him somewhere behind the boys' clothing section; and yes, his black-rimmed eyeglasses make him *the Groucho Marx of* /the Kringle clan/.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/31/nyregion/lefrak-and-jersey-city-are-falling-out-of-love.html][1987/12/31/0106025]]) He's *the John Wayne of* /the rodent/.''

** 1988
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/03/magazine/chicago-s-grumpy-guru.html][1988/01/03/0106769]]) (''Who is *the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/?
2. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521145][Mario Cuomo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/06/nyregion/cuomo-years-the-words-vs-the-deeds.html][1988/01/06/0107301]]) To New York political figures and others, Democrats and Republicans alike, who have watched or worked with Mr. Cuomo since his election in November 1982, his theme for this year points up what they have observed for some time: the contrast between *the Mario Cuomo of* the speeches and the Mario Cuomo of the reality of running government, the Mario Cuomo on the road who is the champion of the poor and the Mario Cuomo at home in New York, where a severe housing shortage has more than doubled the number of homeless people since he took office.+
3. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521145][Mario Cuomo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/06/nyregion/cuomo-years-the-words-vs-the-deeds.html][1988/01/06/0107301]]) To New York political figures and others, Democrats and Republicans alike, who have watched or worked with Mr. Cuomo since his election in November 1982, his theme for this year points up what they have observed for some time: the contrast between the Mario Cuomo of the speeches and *the Mario Cuomo of* the reality of running government, the Mario Cuomo on the road who is the champion of the poor and the Mario Cuomo at home in New York, where a severe housing shortage has more than doubled the number of homeless people since he took office.+
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521145][Mario Cuomo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/06/nyregion/news-summary-wednesday-january-6-1988.html][1988/01/06/0107361]]) News analysis: Two Mario Cuomos are seen by political figures: *the Mario Cuomo of* his speeches and the Mario Cuomo of his administration.+
5. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521145][Mario Cuomo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/06/nyregion/news-summary-wednesday-january-6-1988.html][1988/01/06/0107361]]) News analysis: Two Mario Cuomos are seen by political figures: the Mario Cuomo of his speeches and *the Mario Cuomo of* his administration.+
6. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/08/arts/art-the-silver-of-san-gennaro-from-naples.html][1988/01/08/0107736]]) There is *the Michelangelo of* the Sistine Chapel.+
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43203][Clint Eastwood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/13/arts/guggenheim-names-a-new-director.html][1988/01/13/0109114]]) ''He's a phenomenon - *the Clint Eastwood of* /the art museum director's world/,'' said the director of the Brooklyn Museum, Robert Buck.
8. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/17/arts/gallery-view-mondrian-on-the-path-to-the-abstract.html][1988/01/17/0110006]]) If the tree is seen as a standing figure, its arms spread protectively, it also brings to mind a female Christian image, *the Madonna of* the Misericordia, or mercy, the subject of a great painting by an artist with whom Mondrian has often been compared, Piero della Francesca.+
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43203][Clint Eastwood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/17/weekinreview/headliners-the-guggenheim-s-man.html][1988/01/17/0110278]]) LEAD: The Guggenheim Museum of Art has appointed a man described as ''*the Clint Eastwood of* /the art museum director's world/'' to direct its expansionist fortunes.+ (D)
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43203][Clint Eastwood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/17/weekinreview/headliners-the-guggenheim-s-man.html][1988/01/17/0110278]]) The Guggenheim Museum of Art has appointed a man described as ''*the Clint Eastwood of* /the art museum director's world/'' to direct its expansionist fortunes.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/19/us/in-dispute-on-bias-stanford-is-likely-to-alter-western-culture-program.html][1988/01/19/0110836]]) The novelist Saul Bellow, for example, remarked in a recent issue of The New York Times Magazine that he did not know ''the Tolstoy of the Zulus, *the Proust of* /the Papuans/,'' His remark provoked the ire of some professors, who charged him with insensitivity to the feelings of non-whites.
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/19/us/in-dispute-on-bias-stanford-is-likely-to-alter-western-culture-program.html][1988/01/19/0110836]]) The novelist Saul Bellow, for example, remarked in a recent issue of The New York Times Magazine that he did not know ''*the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/, the Proust of the Papuans,'' His remark provoked the ire of some professors, who charged him with insensitivity to the feelings of non-whites.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298237][Benedict Arnold]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/23/us/victory-for-bush-in-michigan-fight.html][1988/01/23/0112122]]) Meldrim Thomson Jr. of New Hampshire, Mr. Robertson's campaign manager in that state, called Mr. Kemp ''*the Benedict Arnold of* /the Republican Party/.''
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/24/magazine/l-chicago-s-grumpy-guru-683488.html][1988/01/24/0112715]]) Allan Bloom's colleague Saul Bellow asks: ''Who is *the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/?
15. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/24/magazine/l-chicago-s-grumpy-guru-683488.html][1988/01/24/0112715]]) LEAD: Allan Bloom's colleague Saul Bellow asks: ''Who is *the Tolstoy of* the Zulus?+ (D)
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72267][Cecil B. DeMille]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/24/nyregion/theater-george-st-lear-with-twists.html][1988/01/24/0112743]]) Mr. Breuer, who attempts to blend classical and popular cultures in his theater works, has been called ''*the Cecil B. DeMille of* /the American theater/.''
17. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310586][Jesse Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/04/us/new-jackson-finding-dividends-in-iowa.html][1988/02/04/0115826]]) His audience was almost all white, the music came from a bluegrass band featuring a couple of local teamsters, and the song they sang was about *the Jesse Jackson of* 1988:  Jesse has a plan to help the working  man  And bring our jobs back home.+
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q345231][Evel Knievel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/05/theater/avant-garde-antics-for-fearless-audiences.html][1988/02/05/0116272]]) ''Lear,'' directed by Lee Breuer and featuring Ruth Maleczech as the aged king and Greg Mehrten as a drag-queen Fool, has created some excited word of mouth since early work-in-progress performances began at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J. Other high points of the marathon are likely to be Karen Finley performing an excerpt from her scabrously obscene monologue ''The Constant State of Desire,'' the Alien Comic (Tom Murrin) dressed as an electrified lemon tree, and an appearance by David Leslie, *the Evel Knievel of* /performance artists/.
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/09/opinion/l-what-non-western-cultures-are-able-to-teach-943388.html][1988/02/09/0117468]]) Saul Bellow, whom you quote as having remarked that he didn't know ''the Tolstoy of the Zulus, *the Proust of* /the Papuans/,'' will not find his Tolstoy; but as you quote John R. Perry, Stanford philosophy professor, ''if his never having heard of a great author among them suggests that it's pointless to look for great ideas or things to teach from the whole African continent, then I find it sad.''
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/09/opinion/l-what-non-western-cultures-are-able-to-teach-943388.html][1988/02/09/0117468]]) Saul Bellow, whom you quote as having remarked that he didn't know ''*the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/, the Proust of the Papuans,'' will not find his Tolstoy; but as you quote John R. Perry, Stanford philosophy professor, ''if his never having heard of a great author among them suggests that it's pointless to look for great ideas or things to teach from the whole African continent, then I find it sad.''
21. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7370113][Roswell King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/10/us/roswell-journal-the-darker-side-of-a-beloved-founder.html][1988/02/10/0117704]]) The Roswell King of the town he founded left one legacy, Mr. Bell told the hushed audience, but *the Roswell King of* the ''low country contributed to the legacy of racism and strife'' that remains difficult to remove.+
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204205][Sonja Henie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/12/sports/sports-of-the-times-chinook-gold-medal-warmth.html][1988/02/12/0118297]]) By virtue of its first strike, chinook now looms as the Torvill and Dean, the Miracle on Ice hockey team, the Peggy Fleming, *the Sonja Henie of* /these Winter Games/.
23. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/17/garden/for-california-chardonnays-a-graceful-12-year-evolution.html][1988/02/17/0119745]]) CALIFORNIA chardonnay is *the Cinderella of* /American wines/.+ (D)
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/17/garden/for-california-chardonnays-a-graceful-12-year-evolution.html][1988/02/17/0119745]]) LEAD: CALIFORNIA chardonnay is *the Cinderella of* /American wines/.
25. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504942][Vladimir Krutov]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/23/sports/88-winter-olympics-us-takes-holiday-off-ice.html][1988/02/23/0121513]]) Millen, who in Esposito's opinion is the most intriguing of the trio, led the tournament in scoring with 10 points until Sunday, when *the Vladimir Krutov of* the Soviet Union moved into the top position with five goals and seven assists.+
26. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94081][Bob Hope]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/arts/comedy-s-bad-boys-screech-into-the-spotlight.html][1988/02/28/0123045]]) As a needler of celebrities and a supercilious social parodist, Mr. Murphy is not all that different from *the Bob Hope of* 30 years ago who tweaked celebrity egos and lisped with a limp wrist.+
27. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905][Franz Kafka]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/books/walking-the-way-of-the-survivor-a-talk-with-aharon-appelfeld.html][1988/02/28/0123089]]) This is *the Kafka of* his journals, which are no less gripping than his works.+
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/05/sports/baseball-by-the-boardwalk.html][1988/03/05/0124772]]) The late owner of three major league clubs, Veeck was often called *the P. T. Barnum of* /baseball/ for his promotional gimmicks.
29. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/world/police-station-is-hit-in-rioting-in-tibet.html][1988/03/06/0124824]]) Beijing has accused *the Dalai Lama of* stirring up anti-Chinese sentiment in Tibet.+
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/magazine/a-bomb-ticks-in-pakistan.html][1988/03/06/0125050]]) At home, Khan is a prominent figure, hailed as ''*the Einstein of* /Pakistan/.''
31. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/realestate/in-the-region-westchester-and-connecticut-new-2-family-houses-fill-growing-need.html][1988/03/06/0125121]]) LEAD: WITH the prices of land and single-family houses continuing to soar, some Westchester builders are turning to *the Cinderella of* /the housing market/, the two-family house, and finding eager buyers.+ (D)
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/realestate/in-the-region-westchester-and-connecticut-new-2-family-houses-fill-growing-need.html][1988/03/06/0125121]]) WITH the prices of land and single-family houses continuing to soar, some Westchester builders are turning to *the Cinderella of* /the housing market/, the two-family house, and finding eager buyers.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6882][James Joyce]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/08/arts/a-canterbury-tale-cleaning-up-chaucer-for-a-new-tourist-shrine.html][1988/03/08/0125626]]) He's always seemed to me like *the James Joyce of* /the Middle Ages/ and probably as complex and puzzling to his contemporaries.''
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271032][Matthew Arnold]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/11/opinion/l-because-jews-are-not-a-nation-of-terrorists-841288.html][1988/03/11/0126655]]) I do not know whether, when Chaim Grade made this statement, he did or did not think of the words of his friend, the distinguished Y. Y. Trunk, *the Matthew Arnold of* /Yiddish letters/, who warned in November 1948, ''You do not suppose that Jews and Jewish values will be saved if Israel becomes a puppy hound among big hounds.''
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202584][Dean Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/13/nyregion/long-island-journal-501988.html][1988/03/13/0127169]]) ''Don Ryan is a terrific guy, a dedicated guy, *the Dean Smith of* /biddy basketball/,'' said Steve Nisenson of Jericho, the father of a 12-year-old player, Brett, who at an estimated height of four and a half feet is the shortest player on the biddy team.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77688][Ruth Westheimer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/16/garden/de-gustibus-grappa-fiery-brandy-of-old-seeks-an-elegant-new-image.html][1988/03/16/0127840]]) Ms. Mizner, who calls herself *the Dr. Ruth of* /grappa/, said she believes that a little grappa every day might improve one's sex life.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/24/sports/ncaa-basketball-richmond-is-spinning-spiders-are-winning.html][1988/03/24/0130186]]) The Spiders have gone big-league, the national news media have anointed them *the Cinderella of* /the tournament/, and in a cacophony of cheers and clatter, the university's first-ever basketball pep rally declares itself, like its team, a success story.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7742][Louis XIV of France]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/27/magazine/how-magnates-pick-partners.html][1988/03/27/0130877]]) AT 65, JAY PRITZKER is *the Louis XIV of* /the deal makers/, the Sun King whose ever-expanding family empire includes the Hyatt hotel chain; Braniff airlines; the Marmon Group, a $3-billion assemblage of more than 60 industrial companies, and diversified interests in real estate, financial services and timberland.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253364][Helen Thomas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/27/us/the-capital-press-pool-has-its-little-fish-too.html][1988/03/27/0131142]]) ''I suppose I'm kind of *the Helen Thomas of* /the New York reporters/,'' he said, referring to United Press International's longtime White House correspondent, who always gets the first question at President Reagan's news conferences.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189081][Howard Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/29/us/milwaukee-mayor-outlives-problems-and-politicians-in-his-28-year-reign.html][1988/03/29/0131517]]) One alderman has derided him as ''*the Howard Hughes of* /City Hall/,'' a reference to what some think is a reclusive style of governing.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3195237][Kenny Scharf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/01/arts/art-that-strikes-up-conversations-with-viewers.html][1988/04/01/0132316]]) These objects radiate a physical perfection, good humor and, despite their effusive hardware, a buoyancy that is reminiscent of the best graffiti art, so it is fitting that people are calling Mr. Bickerton ''*the Kenny Scharf of* /Neo-Geo/.''
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9191][René Descartes]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/08/arts/review-art-urban-and-rural-vistas-from-jane-freilicher.html][1988/04/08/0134160]]) (The French critic Pierre Restany, a lifelong friend and champion of Arman, was moved recently to call him ''*the Descartes of* /the quantitative method/.'')
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41042][Harold Pinter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/arts/from-kudelka-pinteresque-ballets.html][1988/04/10/0134562]]) JAMES KUDELKA, THE 32-year-old Canadian choreographer, has been called *the Harold Pinter of* /dance/.
44. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41042][Harold Pinter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/arts/from-kudelka-pinteresque-ballets.html][1988/04/10/0134562]]) LEAD: JAMES KUDELKA, THE 32-year-old Canadian choreographer, has been called *the Harold Pinter of* /dance/.+ (D)
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26456][Rashi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/12/arts/a-talmud-in-modern-english.html][1988/04/12/0135375]]) Eugene Borowitz, professor of Jewish religious thought at Hebrew Union College, called Rabbi Steinsaltz ''*the Rashi of* /our time/,'' adding ''He does for the modern reader what Rashi has done for centuries of Jewish readers.''
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504025][Bill Bradley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/13/us/for-gore-an-ebullient-fete.html][1988/04/13/0135673]]) Mr. Tisch described his man succinctly: ''smart, understanding, decent and tough - *the Bill Bradley of* /the South/.''
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82180][Mata Hari]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/theater/review-theater-epistles-set-to-music-in-colker-rupert-mail.html][1988/04/15/0136310]]) Alex's literary agent (Antonia Ellis), described as ''*the Mata Hari of* /the Hamptons/,'' is a seductress who bumps about in Frederick's of Hollywood-style lingerie to the accompaniment of jungle drums.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3187222][Joyce Brothers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/18/us/reporter-s-notebook-like-stickball-players-chasing-after-a-spaldeen.html][1988/04/18/0137197]]) The lieutenant shrugged and said: ''I got tired months ago of being *the Joyce Brothers of* /all this/.''
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310394][Alan Alda]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/24/books/summer-in-the-park-with-george.html][1988/04/24/0139065]]) The Dave Winfield in ''Winfield'' comes off as *the Alan Alda of* /baseball/.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875][Oscar Wilde]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/24/us/comeback-by-the-atlanta-papers-isn-t-all-hurrahs.html][1988/04/24/0139243]]) Under Mr. Rawls, who is described by some staff members as ''*the Oscar Wilde of* /profanity/'' because of his newsroom outbursts, the news staff was pushed to be faster in pursuit of news and more aggressive.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/27/garden/wine-talk-951188.html][1988/04/27/0139923]]) IF cabernet sauvignon is *the Cary Grant of* /grapes/, then merlot is the Gig Young: handsome, likable, No.
52. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/27/garden/wine-talk-951188.html][1988/04/27/0139923]]) LEAD: IF cabernet sauvignon is *the Cary Grant of* /grapes/, then merlot is the Gig Young: handsome, likable, No.+
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/29/sports/sports-of-the-times-boomerangers-kick-the-habit.html][1988/04/29/0140344]]) ''Boomeranging, pardon the expression, is taking off,'' said Darnell, who has been *the Johnny Appleseed of* /the sport in this country/.
54. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131149][Henry David Thoreau]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/books/the-mysterious-thoreau.html][1988/05/01/0140865]]) So intimately bound up with my imaginative life is *the Henry David Thoreau of* ''Walden,'' first read when I was 15, that it is difficult for me to speak of him with a pretense of objectivity.+
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59215][Robert Redford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/01/arts/television-richard-chamberlain-s-mini-series-mastery.html][1988/05/01/0140918]]) From the English sailor Blackthorne washed up on the beach of 17th-century Japan in ''Shogun'' to the amnesia victim Jason Bourne washed up on the beach in the south of France in 1988 in ''The Bourne Identity,'' Richard Chamberlain has become *the Robert Redford of* /the living room/, finding a stardom in prime time that has eluded him on the silver screen.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508574][Billy Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/03/sports/sports-of-the-times-giamatti-s-alert-on-crowd-control.html][1988/05/03/0141477]]) Most baseball people of that era thought that Chandler simply was out to get Durocher, *the Billy Martin of* /his time/.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126462][Thomas Paine]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/09/books/books-of-the-times-memoirs-of-a-chamberlain-in-the-white-house.html][1988/05/09/0143507]]) Mr. Buchanan comes across as ''*the Thomas Paine of* /the Right/,'' and Adm. John M. Poindexter as a ''sphinx-like'' stonewaller, who knew ''something bad was going on'' but didn't want to investigate.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5928][Jimi Hendrix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/11/arts/the-pop-life-112088.html][1988/05/11/0144027]]) Yomo Toro, who has been called ''*the Jimi Hendrix of* /the cuatro/,'' will appear at Sounds of Brazil (204 Varick Street) tomorrow for two shows.
59. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807][Ed Sullivan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/12/arts/review-comedy-spoofing-old-time-tv.html][1988/05/12/0144329]]) LEAD: Mike, an invented character who is the comic alter ego of the performance artist Michael Smith, is busy becoming *the Ed Sullivan of* /the downtown performance world/.+ (D)
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807][Ed Sullivan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/12/arts/review-comedy-spoofing-old-time-tv.html][1988/05/12/0144329]]) Mike, an invented character who is the comic alter ego of the performance artist Michael Smith, is busy becoming *the Ed Sullivan of* /the downtown performance world/.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/15/opinion/topics-of-the-time-the-supermole.html][1988/05/15/0145401]]) As a Soviet spy he was *the Napoleon of* /deception/, the greatest mole of them all, who betrayed British secrets to the K.G.B.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7816545][Tom Lawless]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/22/sports/notebook-pitching-a-pleasnat-surprise-for-yanks-indians.html][1988/05/22/0147564]]) Last week was a bad one for hitters who were trying to become *the Tom Lawless of* /1988/.
63. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9215][Sigmund Freud]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/books/l-freud-s-father-243188.html][1988/05/29/0149577]]) Peter Gay in ''Freud: A Life for Our Time'' and the book's reviewer, Richard Wollheim (April 24), in their way continue flogging an old horse: *the Freud of* traditional (now ancient, after all) psychoanalytic history.+
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73823][Dirty Harry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/05/magazine/on-campus-the-battle-of-the-books.html][1988/06/05/0151212]]) The photograph on the book jacket of ''Criticism and Social Change'' shows a guy in a sports shirt, posed against a graffiti-scarred wall - ''*the Dirty Harry of* /contemporary critical theory/,'' a reviewer in The Village Voice called him.
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/05/us/powered-by-sun-young-racers-look-to-future.html][1988/06/05/0151262]]) Twenty-one-year-old Mr. Worden, the leader of the M.I.T. team, is described by his admirers as *the Henry Ford of* /solar cars/.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1394][Vladimir Lenin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/05/books/summer-reading-time-has-been-kind-to-the-nymphet-lolita-30-years-later.html][1988/06/05/0151446]]) Though he was condemned by some as a porn king, praised by others as ''*the Lenin of* /the sexual revolution/,'' the fact remains that Maurice Girodias was courageous enough to publish William Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, J. P. Donleavy, Nikos Kazantzakis and Nabokov's ''Lolita'' when others were too afraid of censorship to try.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312656][Lon Chaney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/15/opinion/observer-the-ivy-hayseed.html][1988/06/15/0153997]]) The notion has evidently got into his head that these high-class markings will harm him with the voters, for he seems intent on becoming *the Lon Chaney of* /politics/, the Man of a Thousand Faces.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1126349][Connie Mack]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/sports/in-the-corners-a-kid-vs-the-old-man.html][1988/06/24/0156226]]) By contrast, Futch, 76, is a mellow type who speaks slowly and softly and carries himself more like an elder statesman, *the Connie Mack of* /the fight game/.
69. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5547][Antonio Canova]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/26/arts/italy-reclaims-its-treasures-from-the-past.html][1988/06/26/0156751]]) The Correggio ''Danae,'' the Titian ''Sacred and Profane Love,'' the large group of sculptures by Bernini and *the Canova of* Pauline Borghese would alone put the gallery in a very high class.+
70. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313013][Brian Wilson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/26/magazine/back-from-the-bottom.html][1988/06/26/0156840]]) Anyone who remembers the rock musician of the 1970's and early 80's would be astonished by *the Brian Wilson of* today.+
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720558][Joe Namath]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/27/arts/celebrating-the-legendary-nureyev-legacy.html][1988/06/27/0157164]]) We were a long way from earlier times when Mr. Nureyev was called ''*the Joe Namath of* /dance/.''
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/04/opinion/l-compare-and-contrast-ulysses-and-the-custodians-of-its-text-966988.html][1988/07/04/0158922]]) Is Joyce *the Picasso of* /letters/?
73. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2003140][Aim]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/05/books/critic-s-notebook-biography-and-the-aim-of-art.html][1988/07/05/0158939]]) Critic's Notebook; Biography and *the Aim of* Art+
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/10/nyregion/4-black-companies-among-top-100.html][1988/07/10/0159990]]) ''He is certainly *the Jackie Robinson of* /minority business/,'' Mr. Bellinger said of Mr. Lewis.
75. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/17/arts/art-view-hans-holbein-a-great-poet-of-equanimity.html][1988/07/17/0161971]]) Yet it is with Holbein as it is with *the Tolstoy of* ''War and Peace'' - all of life is somewhere within him, for us to unriddle as best we can.+
76. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154691][Carlos Fuentes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/17/books/nervy-on-the-greats.html][1988/07/17/0161994]]) This is recognizably *the Carlos Fuentes of* the novels: the birth date is the same as that of ''Fuentes,'' the narrator of ''Distant Relations,'' and the movie reference fits right in with the dedication of ''The Hydra Head,'' ''in strict order of disappearance,'' to Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains.+
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/17/travel/a-gainsborough-landscape.html][1988/07/17/0162061]]) Gainsborough is *the Mozart of* /portraiture/.
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/18/arts/reviews-music-roger-norrington-and-the-bostonians.html][1988/07/18/0162332]]) 49 in F minor (''La Passione,'' 1768), one of his turbulent, searching Sturm und Drang scores that tellingly anticipate *the Beethoven of* such works as the ''Coriolanus'' Overture.+
79. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24261957][Ticul Alvarez]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/19/business/business-people-2-man-team-aims-to-put-coleco-back-on-track.html][1988/07/19/0162674]]) He is *the Alvarez of* Alvarez & Marsal Inc., which he formed with Bryan P. Marsal, 37, in 1983 to provide consulting and management for companies in trouble.+
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518503][Eliza Doolittle]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/21/garden/a-gardener-s-world-gloriosa-the-eliza-doolittle-of-daisies.html][1988/07/21/0163101]]) Gloriosa, *the Eliza Doolittle of* /Daisies/
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271884][Norman Rockwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/22/us/the-democrats-in-atlanta-convention-chronicle-on-last-day-party-starts-to-poop.html][1988/07/22/0163681]]) Mr. Paul, a 60-year-old Friar Tuck lookalike, is considered *the Norman Rockwell of* /television directors/.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6101][Marco Polo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/us/marco-polo-of-drug-traffic-among-22-indicted.html][1988/07/26/0164793]]) Marks was *the Marco Polo of* /the drug traffic/,'' said Thomas V. Cash, special agent in charge of the Miami Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38757][Bertolt Brecht]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/30/arts/review-opera-bayreuth-ring-has-brechtian-flavor.html][1988/07/30/0166253]]) But in ''Die Walkure,'' the emphasis shifts to *the Brecht of* ''Mother Courage'' - stark studies of tough, painfully real people on a largely bare stage.+
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37327][Samuel Beckett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/31/books/bleak-visions-hand-clapping-lessons.html][1988/07/31/0166391]]) He is a master of erasures and negations, a visionary of discomfort and reproof, *the Samuel Beckett of* /postwar American poetry/.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q342778][Pat Boone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/04/arts/review-pop-rhythm-in-a-suit-and-tie.html][1988/08/04/0167715]]) If not for his experimental streak, Robert Palmer could be *the Pat Boone of* /the 1980's/.
86. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q342778][Pat Boone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/04/arts/review-pop-rhythm-in-a-suit-and-tie.html][1988/08/04/0167715]]) LEAD: If not for his experimental streak, Robert Palmer could be *the Pat Boone of* /the 1980's/.+ (D)
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188962][James Naismith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/08/sports/sports-world-specials-hoover-s-legacy.html][1988/08/08/0168974]]) That's because *the James Naismith of* /Hoover-ball/ was the White House physician, Vice Admiral Joel T. Boone, who devised the game as a way to entice Hoover, who was notoriously lackadaisical about his health, into exercising.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209417][Wallis Simpson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/11/sports/the-gretzky-trade-two-sides-in-edmonton-future-is-on-hold.html][1988/08/11/0169750]]) And Janet Jones, the beautiful bride in what was built up as a royal wedding here July 16, was seen as *the Wallis Simpson of* /her time/, the wife who coerced her husband into leaving.
89. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/11/garden/a-working-retreat-that-s-user-friendly.html][1988/08/11/0169949]]) It is here, in this country cabin equipped with fax machine, that the McCoys pursue their design work, all the while gazing at their antique wall mounts of stuffed animals, including one Mr. McCoy calls ''*the Mona Lisa of* deer.''+
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309648][Charles Ives]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/12/obituaries/giacinto-scelsi-composer-83.html][1988/08/12/0170106]]) Mr. Scelsi, who was widely called *the Charles Ives of* /Italy/, was known for his choral and symphonic works.
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/14/movies/blasphemy-or-artistry.html][1988/08/14/0170766]]) Although Mr. Scorsese's Jesus is not *the Jesus of* scriptures, the film makes us think about who God is - that is to say, what life means.+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/14/sports/cities-stadiums-and-responsibility.html][1988/08/14/0170859]]) That willingness doesn't make him *the Mother Teresa of* /his time/, but it does make him a responsible businessman, a rare enough species in baseball.
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357444][Lou Gehrig]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/17/sports/sports-of-the-times-king-richard-in-heavy-traffic-in-new-york.html][1988/08/17/0171750]]) The man who has won seven Daytonas and a total of 200 races - although none, Gary Carter, since July 4, 1984, which was 118 races ago - is already *the Lou Gehrig of* /racing/, about to start his 500th straight race at Brooklyn International Speedway in Michigan on Sunday.
94. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/20/opinion/l-why-fundamentalists-reject-last-temptation-blasphemous-fable-481888.html][1988/08/20/0172638]]) I agree with Mr. Bien; Kazantzakis's story is indeed reverential and consonant with *the Jesus of* the Gospels.+
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/21/books/take-me-out-to-the-metagame.html][1988/08/21/0172829]]) They were a completely different breed whose first confrontation with the North was not at Fort Sumter, but 38 years earlier, when a North Carolina colonel, known as ''*the Napoleon of* /the turf/,'' encouraged any and all Yankees to race their horses against the indomitable Sir Henry - for a stake of $20,000.
96. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21338817][Bruno Cavalcante Bellini]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/24/garden/food-notes-352388.html][1988/08/24/0173692]]) It was probably inspired by *the Bellini of* Harry's Bar in Venice.+
97. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739412][Assassin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/26/obituaries/percy-foreman-texas-lawyer-86-defended-the-assassin-of-dr-king.html][1988/08/26/0174360]]) Percy Foreman, Texas Lawyer, 86; Defended *the Assassin of* Dr. King+
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616][Marilyn Monroe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/28/business/the-martial-arts-as-moneymakers.html][1988/08/28/0174823]]) ''He's *the Marilyn Monroe of* /this industry/,'' said Bill Groak, editor of M.A.
99. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/28/arts/dance-view-sir-frederick-ashton-poetic-innovator.html][1988/08/28/0174916]]) LEAD: Sir Frederick Ashton was *the Shakespeare of* /ballet/ - not the Shakespeare who wrote revenge tragedies but the poet who composed love sonnets.+ (D)
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/28/arts/dance-view-sir-frederick-ashton-poetic-innovator.html][1988/08/28/0174916]]) Sir Frederick Ashton was *the Shakespeare of* /ballet/ - not the Shakespeare who wrote revenge tragedies but the poet who composed love sonnets.
101. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42511][H. G. Wells]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/29/arts/review-music-johnny-cash-and-family.html][1988/08/29/0175178]]) In ''Water From *the Wells of* Home,'' written and sung with John Carter Cash, the lyrics get teary about the old days while the music aims for middle-of-the-road rock.+
102. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q518503][Eliza Doolittle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/30/science/peripherals-people-wise-programs.html][1988/08/30/0175486]]) He named the program Eliza, after *the Eliza Doolittle of* ''Pygmalion.''+
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182011][Antonio Stradivari]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/04/nyregion/shop-owner-returns-bassoon.html][1988/09/04/0176939]]) It was made by W. Heckel, a German company that Mr. Segal described as ''*the Stradivarius of* /woodwind manufacturing/.''
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864751][The Hatter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/11/movies/film-dean-stockwell-happy-at-last-in-hollywood.html][1988/09/11/0178234]]) ''They say it can't fly,'' whispers Hughes, *the Mad Hatter of* /capitalism/, ''but that's not the point.''
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231417][Barbara Walters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/11/nyregion/children-of-flatbush-adjust-to-palm-trees-and-poi.html][1988/09/11/0178347]]) ''The tenor of this club is to denigrate, to humiliate,'' explains Freda Reeser, a member who calls herself ''*the Barbara Walters of* /the Hawaiian Jewish community/'' because she interviews visiting celebrities for a local magazine.
106. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184556][Sergei Bubka]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/11/sports/l-why-not-use-metric-system-327888.html][1988/09/11/0178481]]) The world record holder in the pole vault jump, *the Sergei Bubka of* the Soviet Union, is the only man to have jumped higher than the ''wall'' of 6 meters.+
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209518][Wayne Gretzky]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/11/sports/the-seoul-olympics-the-games-from-archery-to-yachting-cycling.html][1988/09/11/0178517]]) No such distinction is made for women, and so Jeannie Longo of France, *the Wayne Gretzky of* /women's cycling/, will compete in the Games, as a heavy favorite.
108. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23505][George H. W. Bush]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/23/opinion/in-the-nation-bush-and-the-courts.html][1988/09/23/0181814]]) What makes *the George Bush of* 1988 more moderate than Mr. Reagan, particularly in view of the litany of ''social issues,'' from prayer in the schools to guns in the home, that he recited in his acceptance speech?+
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9696][John F. Kennedy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/25/world/for-canadian-liberals-a-crisis-in-leadership.html][1988/09/25/0182307]]) All told, the four years since he quit his corporate directorships on Bay Street to succeed Mr. Trudeau as Liberal leader have been shocking ones for Mr. Turner, whose supporters once hailed him as *the John F. Kennedy of* /Canadian politics/.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19837][Steve Jobs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/28/business/pc-powerhouse-made-in-taiwan.html][1988/09/28/0183345]]) That Acer has come this far is something of a testament to the drive and unconventional approach of the 43-year-old Mr. Shih, who has become *the Steve Jobs of* /Taiwan/.
111. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/30/movies/review-film-winning-elvis-s-heart-and-the-rest-of-him.html][1988/09/30/0183777]]) The film's repeated suggestions that *the Elvis of* 1972 ought to return to his 50's roots are certainly sound, but they become tiresome when delivered by the self-righteous Johnny.+
112. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234224][Dian Fossey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/arts/film-view.html][1988/10/02/0184224]]) Small wonder, then, that *the Dian Fossey of* ''Gorillas in the Mist'' becomes, as played captivatingly by Sigourney Weaver, a tough, dedicated and extraordinarily single-minded naturalist with nothing terribly unusual to her makeup.+
113. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21544162][Nabob]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/movies/willie-chan-the-nabob-of-hong-kong-cinema.html][1988/10/02/0184266]]) Willie Chan, *the Nabob of* Hong Kong Cinema+
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/05/garden/points-west-poor-seoul-los-angeles-says-smugly.html][1988/10/05/0185168]]) That was never more evident than at the opening ceremonies of our Olympics, staged by the longtime Hollywood producer David Wolper, *the P. T. Barnum of* /patriotism/.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/09/magazine/the-hard-ride-of-willy-t.html][1988/10/09/0186323]]) Until recently, the muscular, middleweight Ribbs, whom the racing press once labeled *the Muhammad Ali of* /auto racing/, might have reacted to such an incident by punching Pruett out in the pits afterward.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180975][Andrew Lloyd Webber]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/10/business/next-inc-produces-a-gala-and-also-a-new-computer.html][1988/10/10/0186766]]) But more stems from Mr. Jobs's reputation as *the Andrew Lloyd Webber of* /product introductions/, a master of stage flair and special effects.
117. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6778432][Marvin Mitchelson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/14/us/the-law-at-the-bar.html][1988/10/14/0187685]]) It was *the Marvin Mitchelson of* old, exhibiting the same high-profile, confrontational approach he'd perfected over the years for Joan Collins, Soraya Khashoggi and Bianca Jagger.+
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9711][Honoré de Balzac]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/14/books/from-balzac-of-egypt-energy-and-nuance.html][1988/10/14/0187729]]) Critics sometimes call Naguib Mahfouz *the Balzac of* /Egypt/ because of the way his works express the pulsating energy of city life and because of their psychologically nuanced characters and broad social concern.
119. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9711][Honoré de Balzac]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/14/books/from-balzac-of-egypt-energy-and-nuance.html][1988/10/14/0187729]]) LEAD: Critics sometimes call Naguib Mahfouz *the Balzac of* /Egypt/ because of the way his works express the pulsating energy of city life and because of their psychologically nuanced characters and broad social concern.+ (D)
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2586583][Henny Youngman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/14/us/campaign-trail-forget-uncle-milty-it-s-the-new-dukakis.html][1988/10/14/0187903]]) The new revised Democratic Presidential candidate is exuding dazzling one-liners - *the Henny Youngman of* /American politics/.
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94081][Bob Hope]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/16/theater/theater-ants-invade-bam-puppets-in-cahoots.html][1988/10/16/0188478]]) Comedy is Mr. Yoshida's specialty (''I was once called '*the Bob Hope of* /Bunraku/' ''), and he has adapted a lot from Chaplin and Keaton.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/17/sports/sports-world-specials-one-of-a-kind.html][1988/10/17/0188726]]) It came from Joshua Evans, the hoopla-minded young proprietor of Lelands auction house in Allentown, Pa., who has emerged as *the P. T. Barnum of* /baseball cards/.
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603][Andy Warhol]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/arts/music-view-clothes-don-t-make-the-opera.html][1988/10/23/0190647]]) He is *the Andy Warhol of* /opera production/, screaming at us to look at sleazy banality with tolerant eyes and recognize it as a new profundity.
124. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154338][Mathias Grünewald]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/24/arts/review-art-after-the-crosshatch-johns-in-philadelphia.html][1988/10/24/0191047]]) That remark is very much to the point, in that Johns's recent paintings inhabit a cross-referential world in which *the Matthias Grunewald of* the Isenheim altarpiece in Colmar is constantly being quoted (though not always in ways that the casual visitor will decipher).+
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/04/sports/sports-of-the-times-how-to-improve-hockey.html][1988/11/04/0194523]]) After all, who could ever again even challenge the 978 stitches (his count) earned by Eddie Shore, *the Babe Ruth of* /hockey/, during his 14-year N.H.L.
126. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/06/education/shakespeare-with-tears.html][1988/11/06/0195168]]) LEAD: Most English teachers are familiar with *the Shakespeare of* legend and tradition: the Stratford boy who may have poached deer and rabbit, the ambitious playwright vilified by a rival as an ''upstart Crow,'' the man who willed, curiously, his ''second-best bed'' to his wife.+
127. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/06/education/shakespeare-with-tears.html][1988/11/06/0195168]]) Most English teachers are familiar with *the Shakespeare of* legend and tradition: the Stratford boy who may have poached deer and rabbit, the ambitious playwright vilified by a rival as an ''upstart Crow,'' the man who willed, curiously, his ''second-best bed'' to his wife.+
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117710][Lorin Maazel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/06/arts/review-opera-the-met-season-opens-with-cav-and-pag.html][1988/11/06/0195310]]) As we have learned through his appearances at the New York City Opera, Mr. Siciliani is something like *the Lorin Maazel of* /Italian opera conductors/.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/13/books/the-notorious-unknown-indian.html][1988/11/13/0197859]]) Although Mr. Chaudhuri may not be what Saul Bellow would call *the Tolstoy of* /the Bengalis/, he may remind many readers of Nabokov's Pnin.
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15853796][Weekend]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/17/movies/reviews-television-cbs-replays-the-weekend-of-nov-22.html][1988/11/17/0198853]]) Reviews/Television; CBS Replays *the Weekend of* Nov. 22+
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261466][Juan Valdez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/magazine/a-lowly-fish-goes-upscale.html][1988/12/04/0203573]]) If *the Juan Valdez of* /catfish frowns/, the whole truckload is rejected and sent for a remedial swim in a fresh pond.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105550][Rod Laver]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/magazine/serving-on-dad-s-court.html][1988/12/04/0203718]]) I was also nervous about joining *the Rod Laver of* /business/ on his home court.
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37327][Samuel Beckett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/books/christmas-books-notable-books-of-the-year.html][1988/12/04/0203748]]) a master of erasures and negations, a visionary of discomfort and reproof, *the Samuel Beckett of* /postwar American poetry/.''
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48231][Idi Amin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/06/theater/review-theater-who-was-that-chicken.html][1988/12/06/0204254]]) As a result, he is regarded as ''the Stalin of Patchogue, *the Idi Amin of* /Long Island/,'' which, along with many other aspects of the play, is a considerable overstatement.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855][Joseph Stalin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/06/theater/review-theater-who-was-that-chicken.html][1988/12/06/0204254]]) As a result, he is regarded as ''*the Stalin of* /Patchogue/, the Idi Amin of Long Island,'' which, along with many other aspects of the play, is a considerable overstatement.
136. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q979545][Michael Boskin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/07/us/bush-s-selections-for-united-nations-cia-top-economic-posts-michael-jay-boskin.html][1988/12/07/0204598]]) The Michael Boskin of the Bush campaign is a bit different from *the Michael Boskin of* academia.+
137. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/12/opinion/essay-color-me-tainted.html][1988/12/12/0205939]]) The Nixon of the late 60's was indeed different from *the Nixon of* previous campaigns.+
138. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186652][Gilbert du Motier]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/12/us/washington-talk-briefing-world-we-are-here.html][1988/12/12/0206044]]) LEAD: The next time troubles threaten in the Philippines or Pakistan and the urge to help is strong, you can suit up and say ''Lafayette, we are here'' in Manila or Islamabad and stand a chance of being welcome, says Representative Stephen Solarz, Democrat of New York, At a lunch in Mr. Solarz' honor last year, President Corazon Aquino thanked him for his work on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on behalf of the ''Filipino struggle for freedom'' and addressed him as ''*the Lafayette of* /the Philippine revolution/.+
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186652][Gilbert du Motier]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/12/us/washington-talk-briefing-world-we-are-here.html][1988/12/12/0206044]]) The next time troubles threaten in the Philippines or Pakistan and the urge to help is strong, you can suit up and say ''Lafayette, we are here'' in Manila or Islamabad and stand a chance of being welcome, says Representative Stephen Solarz, Democrat of New York, At a lunch in Mr. Solarz' honor last year, President Corazon Aquino thanked him for his work on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on behalf of the ''Filipino struggle for freedom'' and addressed him as ''*the Lafayette of* /the Philippine revolution/.''
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215805][Peter Max]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/15/garden/collecting-the-eighties-stash-the-swatch-keep-the-kettle.html][1988/12/15/0206586]]) ''Keith Haring will be *the Peter Max of* /the future/.
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q951317][John Rambo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/25/books/it-brought-out-the-worst-in-everyone.html][1988/12/25/0209560]]) Or Stanley, ''*the Rambo of* /explorers/.''

** 1989
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183266][Samuel Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/08/education/in-search-of-popular-culture.html][1989/01/08/0212236]]) ''That gets me back to legitimacy,'' Mr. Coogan explained, but his eyes lighted up when he added, ''I can be *the Samuel Johnson of* /comic books/: They are really just another form of literature.''
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36724][Attila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/11/opinion/observer-what-a-jim-dandy-ending.html][1989/01/11/0213159]]) The reporters were reporting Bush nicenesses that would have been unthinkable a few weeks ago when this very same George Bush was *the Attila of* /the campaign trail/.
3. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23505][George H. W. Bush]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/11/opinion/observer-what-a-jim-dandy-ending.html][1989/01/11/0213159]]) It's hard to believe this is *the George Bush of* the autumnal sound bites and photo ops who captured the American voter by the ruthless way he put the boot into anybody who got in his way.+
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/15/travel/q-and-a-454689.html][1989/01/15/0214267]]) Citing these difficulties, Ingrid L. Thalheimer, president of *the Rembrandt of* Travel Service in Manhattan, said she advised clients to buy a ticket on the spot.+
5. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7315][Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/15/arts/recordings-schubert-and-schumann-from-three-masters.html][1989/01/15/0214304]]) Its opening theme sounds like *the Tchaikovsky of* ''Eugene Onegin,'' though it was composed considerably before the Russian's opera.+
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189081][Howard Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/15/arts/a-living-definition-of-acting.html][1989/01/15/0214315]]) Ray McAnally is a bluff, robust fellow, most certainly not to be regarded as *the Howard Hughes of* /Irish theaterland/.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233701][Lillian Hellman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/15/books/l-famous-for-15-minutes-947289.html][1989/01/15/0214451]]) Having read every word of Isabelle's book, I can only surmise either that she wishes to be immortalized as *the Lillian Hellman of* /the art world/ or that the men with whom I spent every waking hour had, previous to our first meeting, collectively repented, reformed and miraculously transformed their characters without the benefit of any self-help programs.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43203][Clint Eastwood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/16/theater/review-theater-macho-memories.html][1989/01/16/0214485]]) Mr. O'Keefe, a playwright and actor whose surreal family drama ''All Night Long'' was produced in 1984 in New York at Second Stage, might be described as *the Clint Eastwood of* /performance artists/.
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65553][Carl-Uwe Steeb]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/21/sports/tennis-navratilova-gains-in-53-minutes.html][1989/01/21/0215915]]) 1 ranking with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 second-round victory over *the Carl-Uwe Steeb of* West Germany.+
10. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q528326][Marianne Werdel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/21/sports/tennis-navratilova-gains-in-53-minutes.html][1989/01/21/0215915]]) The Grand Slam winner won the first 11 games against *the Marianne Werdel of* the United States before settling for a 6-0, 6-1 third-round victory.+
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/23/business/man-in-the-news-a-prosecutor-on-a-roll-anton-ronald-valukas.html][1989/01/23/0216737]]) LEAD: To some lawyers here, Anton Ronald Valukas, the United States Attorney in Chicago, is *the Rudolph Giuliani of* /the Midwest/.+ (D)
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/23/business/man-in-the-news-a-prosecutor-on-a-roll-anton-ronald-valukas.html][1989/01/23/0216737]]) To some lawyers here, Anton Ronald Valukas, the United States Attorney in Chicago, is *the Rudolph Giuliani of* /the Midwest/.
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/28/arts/review-music-3d-hearing-for-tippett-work.html][1989/01/28/0218204]]) The Beethoven interpretation did not allow for great flexibility in tempo shifts or the kind of broadening of a melodic line that characterized *the Beethoven of* some older Middle European conductors.+
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9960][Ronald Reagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/us/los-angeles-mayor-once-challenged-regains-stride.html][1989/01/29/0218458]]) In all this, Mayor Bradley, a former police officer, has emerged as *the Ronald Reagan of* /urban politics/, the ''Teflon'' Mayor.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7245][Mark Twain]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/science/italy-embarks-bold-effort-save-fabled-city-venice-threatening-tides.html][1989/01/31/0218970]]) Venice has long been *the Mark Twain of* /cities/.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4982930][Buck Rogers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/01/us/education-us-students-place-low-on-math-and-science-tests.html][1989/02/01/0219360]]) ''The obvious conclusion is that unless we're careful, *the Buck Rogers of* /the 1990's/ is going to be living in Seoul, Korea, instead of Chattanooga or Chicago,'' said Lamar Alexander, president of the University of Tennessee and a former governor of Tennessee.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54527][Billie Jean King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/01/sports/squash-racquets-the-negative-side-wins-out-for-a-no-1-squash-player.html][1989/02/01/0219411]]) Alicia McConnell used to dream of being *the Billie Jean King of* /women's squash/ and turning her sport into a multimillion-dollar enterprise.
18. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54527][Billie Jean King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/01/sports/squash-racquets-the-negative-side-wins-out-for-a-no-1-squash-player.html][1989/02/01/0219411]]) LEAD: Alicia McConnell used to dream of being *the Billie Jean King of* /women's squash/ and turning her sport into a multimillion-dollar enterprise.+ (D)
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102289][Buckminster Fuller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/business/john-reed-bumps-into-reality.html][1989/02/05/0220657]]) Citi will be the world's first truly global financial institution, says Mr. Reed, whose intense focus on the future seems to be turning him into *the Buckminster Fuller of* /banking/.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7304][Gustav Mahler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/05/arts/review-music-sixties-overview-ends-with-3-from-the-east.html][1989/02/05/0220823]]) Now it is Mr. Penderecki who is seen as having regressed into neo-Romantic recycling, Mr. Schnittke is prized as a, if not the, leading Soviet composer, and Shostakovich is *the Mahler of* /the 80's/.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182011][Antonio Stradivari]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/10/arts/review-art-remington-s-war-and-old-west.html][1989/02/10/0221928]]) Not only do we believe in that smooth and silent progress, but we recognize the canoe itself as one built by Remington's friend, J. Henry Rushton, still spoken of as *the Stradivarius of* /canoe builders/.
22. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/12/books/children-s-books-abe-honestly-and-otherwise.html][1989/02/12/0222430]]) For Americans still struggling with the transformation of a rural, small-town society into an industrial and urban one, *the Lincoln of* these books embodied, with the jauntiness of an Aaron Copland score, the pioneer virtues of hard work and neighborliness while underscoring Depression-era lessons about national unity in the face of adversity.+
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q431223][Oliver North]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/26/arts/television-distilling-the-drama-in-the-building-of-the-a-bomb.html][1989/02/26/0226688]]) Groves was an amazing superpatriot, Mr. Rintels says, adding, ''He was *the Oliver North of* /his generation/.''
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103846][Groucho Marx]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/26/books/deware-of-justice-truth-and-beauty.html][1989/02/26/0226891]]) And so we see his son, Reginald Jones, once again in pursuit of an absolute (this time justice), enlist in the Civil War in Spain and then again in the Second World War, where his experiences repeat, with little profit, those of his father; when demobilized, he is caught up in the Welsh nationalist cause, *the Groucho Marx of* /wars/, and while he is at it he discovers and rescues Excalibur from the Hermitage in Russia.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/27/sports/sports-of-the-times-mike-tyson-s-rugged-reign.html][1989/02/27/0226986]]) Joe Frazier was *the Tyson of* /his time/, but George Foreman wrecked him.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/27/sports/boxing-a-brutal-iron-mike-shakes-off-the-rust.html][1989/02/27/0226993]]) And though his performance may not have been textbook-perfect - ''It wasn't *the Mike Tyson of* /vintage/,'' the champion said afterward -Tyson didn't feel any lack of conviction about his potency.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/movies/poitier-honored-by-museum-of-the-moving-image.html][1989/03/01/0227574]]) ''Sidney Poitier was *the Jackie Robinson of* /American film/,'' said Rochelle Slovin, the director of the museum, which opened in September in Astoria, Queens, after seven years of planning.
28. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37030][Thomas Mann]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/05/books/waiter-there-s-an-ear-in-my-stew.html][1989/03/05/0228981]]) There is a bit of Alfred Hitchcock to Ms. Ingalls, but there is also a profundity that lets her be compared to Cortazar or Jorge Luis Borges or *the Thomas Mann of* ''Mario and the Magician.''+
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170241][Tarzan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/05/books/noted-with-pleasure.html][1989/03/05/0228996]]) Thoreau is *the Tarzan of* /nature writing/.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40912][Frank Sinatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/12/books/the-frank-sinatra-of-shakespeare.html][1989/03/12/0231061]]) During their decade-long marriage, Elizabeth Taylor quipped that Burton was ''*the Frank Sinatra of* /Shakespeare/.''
31. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318364][Merce Cunningham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/16/arts/review-dance-brave-new-world-of-movement-activated-sound.html][1989/03/16/0231915]]) Those with long memories will recall similar experiments by *the Merce Cunningham of* 25 years ago.+
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/16/arts/review-piano-romantic-to-modern-pollini-reforges-links.html][1989/03/16/0231917]]) And Stockhausen's intense extremism audibly echoes *the Beethoven of* the ''Hammerklavier,'' especially in his Piano Piece No.+
33. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q822531][Bernard King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/16/sports/notebook-bernard-king-finding-new-ways-to-score.html][1989/03/16/0231972]]) LEAD: The lift and explosiveness have been diminished by knee surgery and age but Bernard King in the last month has been a reasonable facsimile of *the Bernard King of* the past.+
34. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q822531][Bernard King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/16/sports/notebook-bernard-king-finding-new-ways-to-score.html][1989/03/16/0231972]]) The lift and explosiveness have been diminished by knee surgery and age but Bernard King in the last month has been a reasonable facsimile of *the Bernard King of* the past.+
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/17/movies/angry-youth-in-festival-of-new-films.html][1989/03/17/0232294]]) ''Let's Get Lost,'' the second feature by the successful fashion photographer Bruce Weber, focuses on the life and times of Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter and heroin addict who has been called *the James Dean of* /jazz/.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/24/us/democrats-in-house-warn-bush-against-gop-partisan-warfare.html][1989/03/24/0234364]]) He called Mr. Anthony ''*the P. T. Barnum of* /sleaze/'' and said the accusations were a ''pre-emptive strike'' in advance of the ethics committee's report on Mr. Wright.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604][Frank Lloyd Wright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/27/nyregion/the-talk-of-westport-in-a-town-that-grew-up-a-tempest-over-jungle-gyms.html][1989/03/27/0235157]]) Who could protest a project designed by children, hand-built by parents, paid for with private money and planned by Robert Leathers, *the Frank Lloyd Wright of* /the Sesame Street set/?
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129772][Xenophon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/02/books/land-grab-on-the-rio-grande.html][1989/04/02/0236473]]) Col. Alexander W. Doniphan, at six and a half feet tall a giant in his day, commanded an expedition into the Southwest so spectacular that William Cullen Bryant was moved to call him *the Xenophon of* /the Mexican War/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451489][Antoine-Louis Barye]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/02/nyregion/art-43-artists-at-hudson-museum-examine-nature-of-the-beast.html][1989/04/02/0236554]]) Luis Jimenez Jr., with his portrait of a howling canine in brown and gray fiberglass dusted with gold, ranks as *the Antoine-Louis Barye of* /the group/.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/02/movies/pop-view-lost-in-the-bohemian-fog.html][1989/04/02/0236730]]) Handsome and talented but imperiously self-destructive, the man who has been called ''*the James Dean of* /jazz/'' was a connoisseur of fast cars, women and drugs.
41. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503322][Carlo Dolci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/02/arts/art-view-inch-for-inch-one-of-the-great-museums.html][1989/04/02/0236736]]) We also get, early on, an exalted idea of the English character as it comes out in the van Dyck of Archbishop Laud and *the Carlo Dolci of* Sir Thomas Baines (a man of great learning and in his day a passionate Anglo-Florentine).+
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/03/us/las-vegas-journal-nevada-draws-the-line-no-hitler-in-the-casinos.html][1989/04/03/0237047]]) All we need is a bad tie and goggle eyes and we are *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /states/.''
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/05/us/doctor-at-center-of-legal-swirl-is-kept-from-trial.html][1989/04/05/0237599]]) ''I call him *the Michelangelo of* /the cancer world/.''
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q249143][Louella Parsons]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/10/books/books-of-the-times-a-warrior-s-tale-of-combat-and-disillusionment.html][1989/04/10/0238940]]) He writes that Marshall later invited him to be his collaborator, but that he turned him down, having concluded that Marshall was ''less a military analyst than a military ambulance chaser, more a voyeur than a warrior, *the Louella Parsons of* /the U.S./
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/15/opinion/amateur-hour-at-seton-hall.html][1989/04/15/0240242]]) For Seton Hall University, *the Cinderella of* /this year's national collegiate basketball tournament/, midnight may have arrived.
46. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/15/opinion/amateur-hour-at-seton-hall.html][1989/04/15/0240242]]) LEAD: For Seton Hall University, *the Cinderella of* /this year's national collegiate basketball tournament/, midnight may have arrived.+ (D)
47. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/20/world/walesa-in-rome-asks-west-to-help-poland.html][1989/04/20/0241820]]) At his general audience today, John Paul thanked *the Madonna of* Jasna Gora, Poland's patron, for having brought about the agreement that restored Solidarity's legal status.+
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100937][Fred Astaire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/20/us/san-jose-journal-an-appalachian-dance-finds-a-home-in-the-west.html][1989/04/20/0241894]]) At 68 years of age, Mr. Hummer is *the Fred Astaire of* /solo free-style clogging/, with an elegantly sweeping, sliding style as he demonstrates his morning wakeup dance, ''Rise and Shine.''
49. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23505][George H. W. Bush]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/22/opinion/observer-giddy-with-star-games.html][1989/04/22/0242402]]) Reagan had been all entertainer -''an authentic phony,'' in James Reston's memorable phrase - while *the George Bush of* the campaign season was the first totally fake phony ever created for a limited-run appearance in a Presidential campaign.+
50. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q809092][Barry Sanders]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/23/sports/nfl-draft-89-solid-and-reliable-talent-for-a-new-ball-game.html][1989/04/23/0242986]]) We can wait on *the Barry Sanders of* the world.+
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134549][Ted Kennedy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/26/us/wyoming-deflates-the-political-experts.html][1989/04/26/0243958]]) ''Vinich is *the Ted Kennedy of* /Wyoming/,'' said Scott Farris, the top political reporter for The Casper Star-Tribune.
52. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q882][Charlie Chaplin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/27/opinion/we-all-love-lucy.html][1989/04/27/0244455]]) The Lucille Ball of ''I Love Lucy'' could no more keep up with a procession of chocolates - except by stuffing them in her face - than could *the Charlie Chaplin of* ''Modern Times'' keep plying his wrenches.+
53. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167132][George Bellows]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/28/arts/review-art-the-natinal-academy-airs-some-lesser-known-work.html][1989/04/28/0244635]]) This visitor was very touched by the affectionate collegial spirit that infuses many a 19th-century portrait of one artist by another - the Augustus Saint-Gaudens plaster relief of Francis David Millett, the portrait of Alexander Stirling Calder by Robert Henri, the portrait of Maxfield Parrish by Kenyon Cox, and *the George Bellows of* Paul Manship.+
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/world/for-soviet-athletes-a-greater-presence-in-american-sports.html][1989/04/30/0245467]]) They are a hot ticket in the United States, *the Madonna of* /the Eastern bloc/.
55. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7302][George Frideric Handel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/arts/home-entertainment-recordings-recent-releases.html][1989/04/30/0245744]]) Whatever the source, the result is a work of tremendous vitality; the florid vocal solos, rolling choruses and bold theatrical strokes unmistakably anticipate *the Handel of* the later operas and oratorios.+
56. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/05/arts/review-midtown-galleries-four-blocks-57th-street-treasure-house-modern-art.html][1989/05/05/0247046]]) In ''Psychoanalytic Drawing'' (1939-40), it is *the Picasso of* ''Guernica'' who can be discerned in the brightly colored half-man, half-beast.+
57. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307][Galileo Galilei]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/14/travel/travel-advisory-964489.html][1989/05/14/0249990]]) Among the ships that call regularly this year are the Queen of Bermuda of Bermuda Star Line, the Cunard Princess of Cunard Line, the Royal Viking Star, the Nordic Prince and the Amerikanis and *the Galileo of* Chandris Fantasy Cruises.+
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294583][Sam Shepard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/18/arts/review-dance-young-in-love-and-in-combat.html][1989/05/18/0251063]]) He is not quite *the Sam Shepard of* /ballet/, but he does bring to mind some of that playwright's combative love situations, with their dust-bowl heritage.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/19/sports/sports-of-the-times-will-there-be-a-tomorrow-tomorrow.html][1989/05/19/0251456]]) He may have been the closest thing to *the Michael Jordan of* /his day/, as earthbound as he was.
60. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6882][James Joyce]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/books/strange-lights-in-ancient-streets.html][1989/05/21/0251941]]) Evoking not only Proust but *the James Joyce of* ''Ulysses,'' the Virginia Woolf of ''Mrs.+
61. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40909][Virginia Woolf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/books/strange-lights-in-ancient-streets.html][1989/05/21/0251941]]) Evoking not only Proust but the James Joyce of ''Ulysses,'' *the Virginia Woolf of* ''Mrs.+
62. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467122][Ed Koch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/weekinreview/the-region-giuliani-riding-high-faces-some-tripwires-set-by-his-enemies.html][1989/05/21/0252270]]) It almost sounded like *the Ed Koch of* 12 years ago.+
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960612][Clifford Irving]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/sports/notebook-hriniak-teaching-white-sox-to-hit-em-where-they-ain-t.html][1989/05/21/0252346]]) One baseball official, who believes it was a hoax, referred to the writer as *the Clifford Irving of* /baseball/.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4963602][Brian Dowling]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/26/us/the-law-one-word-and-he-might-be-a-judge.html][1989/05/26/0253509]]) Mr. Dowling (who is not *the Brian Dowling of* /Yale football fame/, the model for B. D. in the Doonesbury comic strip) fared no better this week before the United States Supreme Court.
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3101707][Switch]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/27/business/fcc-denies-mci-protest-on-phone-job.html][1989/05/27/0253808]]) Shanghai Protesters: A Finger on *the Switch of* China's Industrial Dynamo+
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6515148][Lee Stange]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/28/sports/l-not-a-fan-of-darling-794790.html][1989/05/28/0254346]]) He will likely be *the Lee Stange of* /New York baseball/.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324882][Desi Arnaz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/04/movies/film-to-sci-fi-writers-hollywood-is-mostly-alien.html][1989/06/04/0255970]]) Spock and McCoy shadowbox about the value of logic versus feelings, the Klingons scowl under their fishbone foreheads, Kirk suffers the agonies of command, Chekov mispronounces words (he's *the Desi Arnaz of* /space/), the ship takes a hit and sparks pour out of the consoles: it's all painted on the floor like rhumba steps.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/06/arts/a-showplace-for-a-showman.html][1989/06/06/0256423]]) ''He was *the Donald Trump of* /Bridgeport/ at one time,'' Mr. Pelton said, alluding to Barnum's real estate holdings.
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/06/arts/a-showplace-for-a-showman.html][1989/06/06/0256423]]) The top-hatted statue will utter not a word about the American sucker, for the simple reason that Barnum - *the Michelangelo of* /buncombe, hokum, hoopla and ballyhoo/ - was himself the victim of a hoax.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/09/opinion/l-afghanistan-won-t-be-a-us-or-soviet-puppet-628089.html][1989/06/09/0257079]]) But you want us to compromise with *the Hitler of* /my country/.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5664][Fra Angelico]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/arts/art-view-fra-angelico-of-satanism-shines-at-harvard.html][1989/06/11/0257654]]) Roger Fry, the English critic, called him *the Fra Angelico of* /Satanism/, in honor of his immaculately elegant drawings of decadent subjects.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199846][Raffi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/books/children-s-books-play-me-a-story-it-s-tape-time.html][1989/06/11/0257799]]) ''We're waiting for *the Raffi of* /our industry/.''
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219780][Hunter S. Thompson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/books/travel-books.html][1989/06/11/0257800]]) The most Anglicized exercise may be IN TROUBLE AGAIN: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon (272 pp., Atlantic, $17.95), Redmond O'Hanlon's search for human or animal horrors between the Amazon and the Orinoco rivers, which serves to cement the Oxford-educated naturalist's reputation as *the Hunter S. Thompson of* /expeditionaries/.
74. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/18/travel/italy-s-loreto-offers-vistas-and-a-legend.html][1989/06/18/0259364]]) A part of the building is occupied by a museum with Flemish tapestries after Raphael, Renaissance ceramics and paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, the Venetian painter and votary of *the Madonna of* Loreto who died here in 1556.+
75. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/25/business/selling-the-trump-shuttle.html][1989/06/25/0261170]]) He would just be a ''gimmick'' that would highlight *the Donald Trump of* private jets and 118-room vacation homes, an image that would not lure the business travelers who make up 80 percent of shuttle riders, Mr. Sloves said.+
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152843][Joan Collins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/25/movies/film-france-s-revolution-staged-for-a-multimedia-age.html][1989/06/25/0261334]]) ''She was like *the Joan Collins of* /France/ - the people hated her.
77. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272774][John Hancock]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-giamatti-s-john-hancock.html][1989/06/26/0261501]]) Whatever, the bottom line bears *the John Hancock of* A. Bartlett Giamatti.+
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2922982][Boy Wonder]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/27/obituaries/harry-breuer-87-dies-percussionist-for-nbc.html][1989/06/27/0261771]]) Mr. Breuer began his career during World War I as *the Boy Wonder of* the xylophone.+
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54168][J. P. Morgan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/06/business/company-news-mccaw-risks-debt-for-dominance.html][1989/07/06/0263999]]) Mr. McCaw ''fancies himself as the early industrialists did, as *the J. P. Morgan of* /cellular/,'' said Jack B. Grubman, an analyst with Paine Webber Inc.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298237][Benedict Arnold]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/14/us/gun-import-ban-enriches-small-us-arms-makers.html][1989/07/14/0265756]]) ''Sturm, Ruger is *the Benedict Arnold of* /the gun industry/,'' said Aaron S. Zelman, owner of the Patriot Distribution Company, a Milwaukee-based concern that sells a semiautomatic pistol as well as products such as assault vests and tear gas.
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955322][Shoeless Joe Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/arts/music-does-the-jazz-of-the-past-have-a-future.html][1989/07/16/0266101]]) Was Pee Wee, after all, *the Shoeless Joe Jackson of* /jazz/, minus the scandal?
82. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/arts/music-view-once-more-but-with-feeling.html][1989/07/16/0266107]]) By pulling in my frame of reference, I can detect not only technical elegances but many genuinely musical felicities in *the Mozart of* Bilson-Gardiner.+
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441][Emily Dickinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/17/books/books-of-the-times-a-deceased-heroine-and-her-perplexing-poetry.html][1989/07/17/0266475]]) It was written by the title character of the book, the late Mary Swann, who is variously described as ''a poete naive'' and ''*the Emily Dickinson of* /Upper Canada/,'' and it reads in part as follows:  Feet on the winter floor  Beat Flowers to blackness  Making a corridor  Named helplessness
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16474][John McEnroe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/17/world/reporter-s-notebook-ordinarily-not-the-place-to-skip-dinner.html][1989/07/17/0266503]]) The British Prime Minister, who was described by Simon Jenkins of The Sunday Times of London as *the John McEnroe of* /European diplomacy/, was seen on Friday night furiously tapping her foot as Jean-Paul Goude's historical pageant slowly unfolded.
85. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103917][Steven Soderbergh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/23/movies/sex-lies-truth-and-consequences.html][1989/07/23/0268570]]) His father sees the film as ''an end chapter to *the Steven Soderbergh of* the last 10 years, the finish of a package of emotions he was carrying with him.+
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34453][Boris Yeltsin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/24/world/illness-sparks-succession-watch-in-east-germany.html][1989/07/24/0268770]]) But these are tumultuous times in the Soviet bloc, and Mr. Modrow is considered by many to be *the Boris Yeltsin of* /East Germany/ - a symbol of change and innovation among younger party members.
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/27/arts/review-ballet-from-london-a-poetic-romeo-that-makes-others-seem-prosy.html][1989/07/27/0269641]]) LEAD: Not for nothing was Sir Frederick Ashton, England's greatest choreographer, called *the Shakespeare of* /ballet/.+ (D)
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/27/arts/review-ballet-from-london-a-poetic-romeo-that-makes-others-seem-prosy.html][1989/07/27/0269641]]) Not for nothing was Sir Frederick Ashton, England's greatest choreographer, called *the Shakespeare of* /ballet/.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441][Emily Dickinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/06/books/they-all-want-a-piece-of-the-legend.html][1989/08/06/0273070]]) The academic world is abuzz about Mary Swann (1915-65), an uneducated farmer's wife, a nonentity when murdered by her swinish husband, but now touted by some as *the Emily Dickinson of* /Upper Canada/.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36724][Attila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/13/world/peruvian-farmers-razing-rain-forest-to-sow-drug-crops.html][1989/08/13/0274831]]) Nicknamed ''*the Attila of* /tropical agriculture/'' by one Peruvian scientist, coca cultivation has led to indiscriminate deforestation.
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1779][Louis Armstrong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/17/nyregion/jambalaya-passion-feeds-lengthy-lines-on-broadway.html][1989/08/17/0276060]]) This was K-Paul's New York Kitchen, an outpost of the New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme, *the Louis Armstrong of* /jambalaya, crawfish pie and file gumbo/.
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1779][Louis Armstrong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/17/nyregion/news-summary-334489.html][1989/08/17/0276100]]) Customers lined up for dinner at K-Paul's New York Kitchen, an outpost of the New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme, *the Louis Armstrong of* /crawfish pie and jambalaya/.
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316179][Moses Malone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/18/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-league-that-bans-tall-tales.html][1989/08/18/0276324]]) For what it's worth, Hughes is *the Moses Malone of* /the W.B.L./
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309648][Charles Ives]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/20/arts/architecture-view-when-a-small-town-put-architecture-to-the-vote.html][1989/08/20/0276825]]) In a sense, they are *the Charles Ives of* /architects/; for just as Ives recaptured fragments of familiar American tunes within a 20th-century musical framework, Robert Kliment and Frances Halsband use their vernacular references not merely as surface decor but as integral and cohesive parts of an otherwise clean-cut 20th-century American building.
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/20/arts/antique-gathering-hand-painted-rosebuds.html][1989/08/20/0276826]]) Individual prints from the monumental work ''Les Liliacees'' by Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), known as *the Rembrandt of* /flowers/, range from $1,000 to $3,000.
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94081][Bob Hope]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/20/arts/waiter-there-s-a-joke-in-my-soup.html][1989/08/20/0276845]]) ''Leno is clearly *the Bob Hope of* /our generation/,'' says Lenny Ripps.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182580][Shirley Temple]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/20/nyregion/phyllis-newman-100-and-still-counting.html][1989/08/20/0277023]]) In 1939, on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, her mother, Rachel Newman from Lithuania, whom she describes as ''*the Shirley Temple of* /mothers/,'' was known as ''Marvelle, the Fortune Teller,'' and her father, Sigmund Archur, from Warsaw, was called ''Gabel the Graphologist,'' his career of the moment.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6691][Homer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/21/business/the-media-business-advertising-the-power-of-the-sound-of-speech.html][1989/08/21/0277244]]) But Tony Schwartz is also *the Homer of* /the Information Age/, a collector and communicator of the aural tradition and a celebrant of the received word in an era that deifies the video image.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41142][Jane Fonda]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/25/us/war-continues-for-vietnam-refugees.html][1989/08/25/0278125]]) Mr. Pike called him *the Jane Fonda of* /the Vietnamese community/ because of his approach and the passions it fueled.
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5664][Fra Angelico]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/travel/belgium-s-medieval-treasure.html][1989/09/10/0281871]]) Hans Memling, ''*the Fra Angelico of* /the North/,'' painted the triptych for the hospital chapel and the panels illustrating the legend of St. Ursula around the casket-shrine containing her relics.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/books/the-decline-and-fall-of-a-sure-thing.html][1989/09/10/0282118]]) But he was a genius, *the Einstein of* /the law/.''
102. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5189144][Crowbar]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/17/arts/record-notes-there-s-something-old-something-new-and-a-lot-of-both.html][1989/09/17/0283747]]) THE NATION: David N. Dinkins; An Even Temper In *the Tempest of* Mayoral Politics+
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72267][Cecil B. DeMille]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/21/garden/exotic-feats-of-furniture-are-unleashed.html][1989/09/21/0284892]]) Mr. Newman has has been called ''*the Cecil B. DeMille of* /antiques dealers/.''
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46868][I. M. Pei]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/29/arts/restaurants-260589.html][1989/09/29/0286782]]) Alfred Portale, *the I. M. Pei of* /contemporary American cooking/, brings new meaning to the term haute cuisine with his skyscraper salads, towers of twirled pasta, high-rises of french fries and soaring desserts.
105. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/29/theater/review-theater-a-mad-and-busy-day-in-ludlam-s-first-venture.html][1989/09/29/0286815]]) Among the hotel's guests are Svengali and Trilby, the legendary Hollywood stars Norma Desmond and Lupe Velez, and a great Russian ballerina whose penchant for suicide is so obsessive that she makes *the Greta Garbo of* ''Grand Hotel'' seem like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.+
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/01/nyregion/final-go-rounds-for-old-carousel.html][1989/10/01/0287270]]) ''This is the last E. Joy Morris carousel in operation, and he was *the Rembrandt of* /carousels/,'' he said.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235066][Laurie Anderson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/05/arts/review-dance-graham-reinvents-her-american-document.html][1989/10/05/0288506]]) She is not *the Laurie Anderson of* /her time/, of course.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/07/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-genius-factor-in-the-playoffs.html][1989/10/07/0288891]]) One day he is acclaimed *the Einstein of* /the Diamond/, the next day he is hailed as one of the seven or eight dumbest people on the face of the earth, and the following day, why, back to genius status again.
109. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178698][W. H. Auden]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/08/books/taking-glee-in-his-wayward-past.html][1989/10/08/0288976]]) So, too, the young poet continually tried on the ill-fitting public persona of *the W. H. Auden of* the 1930's.+
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467133][David Dinkins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/11/garden/points-west-an-apolitical-city-sadly-notes-a-scandal.html][1989/10/11/0290032]]) He was *the David Dinkins of* /his day/ - calm, comforting and, yes, often boring.
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255815][Tallulah Bankhead]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/12/us/washington-talk-congress-takes-notice-of-the-youngest-citizens.html][1989/10/12/0290209]]) ''Senior citizens are *the Tallulah Bankhead of* /the lifeboat/: a lot of other people will go over first,'' Mr. Miller said.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379664][Valentino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/22/travel/shopper-s-world-vibrant-majolica-handmade-in-italy.html][1989/10/22/0293575]]) ''He is *the Valentino of* /Deruta/,'' said Mr. Raimondi, ''but there are also other couturiers.''
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467364][Leona Helmsley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/22/magazine/the-producers.html][1989/10/22/0293748]]) They're *the Leona Helmsley of* /L.A./''
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2563141][Aimee Semple McPherson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/25/garden/points-west-turning-stars-into-environmentalists.html][1989/10/25/0294474]]) Bonnie Reiss, whom friends describe as an environmental evangelist, *the Aimee Semple McPherson of* /the movement/, took the mid-level industry types.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138576][Bea Arthur]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/27/movies/review-film-lemmon-as-a-codger-in-dad.html][1989/10/27/0294985]]) This sounds as if it had been written especially for her, at least for her image as *the Bea Arthur of* /the Big Screen/.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45661][Coco Chanel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/29/style/fashion-for-dancing-downtown-buckets-and-bags.html][1989/10/29/0295582]]) Hello Kitty is *the Coco Chanel of* /club land/, it seems.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80938][John Travolta]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/29/arts/art-view-once-a-wunderkind-now-robert-long-ago.html][1989/10/29/0295608]]) For some people he's *the John Travolta of* /early 80's art/.
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9041][James Watt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/29/us/appointments-worry-environmentalists.html][1989/10/29/0295688]]) Some Indiana environmentalists called him ''*the James Watt of* /Indiana/,'' saying he cared little about preserving the state's remaining wilderness areas and favored aggressive development of public lands.
119. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37571][Jackson Pollock]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/03/arts/review-art-an-art-of-motion-joan-mitchell-s-abstract-expressionism.html][1989/11/03/0297129]]) Her pictorial approach owes a great deal to Willem de Kooning, to Franz Kline and to *the Jackson Pollock of* ''The Deep.''+
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220210][George Steinbrenner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/weekinreview/headliners-surprise-ending.html][1989/11/05/0297904]]) It would doubtless overstate the case to call S. I. Newhouse *the George Steinbrenner of* /publishing/.
121. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220210][George Steinbrenner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/weekinreview/headliners-surprise-ending.html][1989/11/05/0297904]]) LEAD: It would doubtless overstate the case to call S. I. Newhouse *the George Steinbrenner of* /publishing/.+ (D)
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1076161][Dwight Gooden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/06/nyregion/doctor-who-billed-millions-is-cut-by-new-york-medicaid.html][1989/11/06/0298301]]) ''This guy is *the Dwight Gooden of* /Medicaid billers/,'' James Durkin, the director of the state Department of Social Services office that investigates abuse of the Medicaid system, said in an interview before Dr. del Gizzo's expulsion.
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919265][Alex Katz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/10/arts/review-art-portraits-that-speak-out-for-subjects-and-their-time.html][1989/11/10/0299439]]) Furthermore, the gallery has secured the loan of a number of classics of our time - *the Alex Katz of* the poet James Schuyler (1959), for one, the sixfold self-portrait by Andy Warhol (1966), and more recently the likeness, quickly and lightly brushed, of the composer Morton Feldman by Francesco Clemente.+
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298726][John Zorn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/10/arts/pop-jazz-the-many-voices-of-new-music-america-89.html][1989/11/10/0299484]]) A few hours later, at the Kitchen, Heiner Goebbels, *the John Zorn of* /West Germany/, is presenting his play ''The Man in the Elevator,'' featuring, among others, the downtown musician Arto Lindsay and the well-respected East German author Heiner Muller.
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8442][Otto von Bismarck]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/10/obituaries/rudolf-von-bennigsen-german-executive-63.html][1989/11/10/0299617]]) A strong-willed figure, Mr. von Bennigsen was sometimes known as *the Bismarck of* /West German industry/.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/14/arts/o-keeffe-once-an-icon-is-now-an-industry.html][1989/11/14/0300766]]) He made her *the Garbo of* /the art world/.''
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q591743][Larry Miller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/15/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-price-of-finding-role-models.html][1989/11/15/0301143]]) Dave LaPoint, with his sense of humor, willingness to help and left-handed observations of the weirdness at Yankee Stadium, might just be *the Larry Miller of* /our time/.
128. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3195071][Ken O'Brien]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/19/sports/pro-football-o-brien-showing-effects-of-pounding.html][1989/11/19/0302286]]) ''You look at *the Ken O'Brien of* 1985 and 1986, and you saw a quarterback who was going to get even better, who was going to take this team even farther along,'' said one N.F.L.+
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138846][Andy Rooney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/19/books/in-short-nonfiction-689589.html][1989/11/19/0302493]]) He is a curmudgeon with opinions but no conviction, *the Andy Rooney of* /the Sahara of the Bozart/.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/20/nyregion/aids-battler-gives-needles-illicitly-to-addicts.html][1989/11/20/0302750]]) Mr. Parker, a former drug addict and now working on a master's degree in public health at Yale University, has been called *the Johnny Appleseed of* /needles/.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q409][Bob Marley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/22/arts/the-pop-life-717289.html][1989/11/22/0303163]]) One of the anthology's strongest cuts, ''Ayiti Pa Fore'' (''Haiti Is Not a Forest') was recorded in 1988 and features Manno Charlemagne, a singer and songwriter who is regarded as *the Bob Marley of* /Haiti/.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10664][Neville Chamberlain]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/22/business/savings-executive-won-t-testify-and-blames-regulators-for-woes.html][1989/11/22/0303228]]) Jim Bakker of American commerce -given license to steal by a bank board headed by *the Neville Chamberlain of* /financial regulation/, a cheerleader who saw little evil and thus spoke little truth,'' Mr. Leach said.
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613136][Walter Reed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/26/travel/by-train-to-the-middle-of-the-amazon-jungle.html][1989/11/26/0304421]]) Doctors were also posted at outlying construction camps, and Dr. Oswaldo Cruz, *the Walter Reed of* /Brazil/, visited the project and supervised the fight against malaria and yellow fever.
134. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6205469][Joan Stark]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/28/arts/a-singer-brings-back-the-spunk-of-40-s-women.html][1989/11/28/0304734]]) A Singer Brings Back *the Spunk of* 40's Women+
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9696][John F. Kennedy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/30/world/clamor-in-the-east-gorbachev-visiting-italy-urges-talks-on-naval-arms.html][1989/11/30/0305341]]) ''He's *the Kennedy of* /the 90's/,'' several people said.
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/04/sports/a-ring-rivalry-that-won-t-die.html][1989/12/04/0306451]]) To be Sugar Ray - the marquee hero, *the Elvis of* /boxing/ - he must win.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34969][Benjamin Franklin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/07/garden/design-notebook-the-eameses-modernism-democratic-yet-still-elite.html][1989/12/07/0307324]]) CHARLES EAMES was *the Benjamin Franklin of* /American design/.
138. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34969][Benjamin Franklin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/07/garden/design-notebook-the-eameses-modernism-democratic-yet-still-elite.html][1989/12/07/0307324]]) LEAD: CHARLES EAMES was *the Benjamin Franklin of* /American design/.+ (D)
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3845172][Mao]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/10/books/talking-to-himself-but-very-loud.html][1989/12/10/0308207]]) Merle Goldman, looking at *the Mao of* the late 1950's from the vantage point of her deep familiarity with the manifestations of political and literary dissent in China, explains how the Hundred Flowers slogans sprang from Communist Party intellectual history - specifically, from an earlier 1951 Maoist analysis of the Beijing Opera tradition and from the roots of a historiographical academic debate that Mao refused to pass judgment on.+
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q196090][Marvin Miller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/11/sports/question-box.html][1989/12/11/0308314]]) There is no documentation of Ward's won-lost record as a lawyer (Columbia Law, class of '85), but what stands out is his role as *the Marvin Miller of* /his time/.
141. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/12/arts/review-art-20-th-century-works-collected-by-a-couple-with-a-shared-vision.html][1989/12/12/0308488]]) Our understanding of *the Picasso of* those days is completed by this little picture in a way that could not happen in any other context.+
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460876][Lenny Bruce]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/13/arts/the-pop-life-290089.html][1989/12/13/0308717]]) Many of his Israeli songs are collaborations with Jonathan Geffen, an journalist and writer whom he described ''as *the Lenny Bruce of* /our time there/.''
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619][Nicolaus Copernicus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/16/opinion/the-copernicus-of-communism.html][1989/12/16/0309565]]) For that, he deserves to be remembered as *the Copernicus of* /Communism/.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311070][Davy Crockett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/17/nyregion/loyalty-in-albany-official-s-downfall.html][1989/12/17/0309883]]) I used to go around calling myself *the Davy Crockett of* /substance abuse/, you know.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434513][Alice Waters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/17/magazine/food-beyond-expectations.html][1989/12/17/0309934]]) Two meals and a long talk convinced me that the owner of that enchanting restaurant had to be *the Alice Waters of* /Cornwall/.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347528][Liberace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/21/books/books-of-the-times-chopping-down-washington-s-cherry-tree.html][1989/12/21/0310887]]) The clothes fetish: his orders for ''cloaths,'' as Washington often spelled it, must have left ''no doubt in his London merchants' minds that they were dealing with *the Liberace of* /the Potomac/.''
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138846][Andy Rooney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/24/nyregion/a-hobby-becomes-an-obsession-with-junk-mail.html][1989/12/24/0311897]]) ''He's sort of *the Andy Rooney of* /the direct mail business/,'' said Jay Walker, the chairman of the Catalog Media Corporation in Ridgefield, which arranges corporate tie-ins and promotions with mail-order catalogues.
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/29/business/banks-bad-real-estate-loans-spur-rising-worry-of-failures.html][1989/12/29/0312856]]) ''I've been *the Cassandra of* /real estate forecasting/ for some time now,'' Mr. Seidman told bankers at a meeting in New York this month.

** 1990
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4985][Herman Melville]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/03/books/book-notes-613590.html][1990/01/03/0313812]]) Representative authors are Soseki Natsume, whom Mr. Gibney called ''*the Herman Melville of* /19th-century Japanese fiction/,'' Kobo Abe, Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima.
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/03/sports/crossman-lafontaine-each-score-twice.html][1990/01/03/0313936]]) ''Gretzky is *the Michael Jordan of* /hockey/,'' said Fitzpatrick, who intimidated shooters in the manner of Patrick Ewing.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/14/books/nibbled-at-by-neighbors.html][1990/01/14/0316484]]) Her reward is ambiguous - at the end of the sitting, she sees herself, for the first time, as a very old woman, ''as Mr. Trate, *the Rembrandt of* /Painters Ltd./, saw her on this lovely October day.''
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q410][Carl Sagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/21/weekinreview/the-region-if-cuomo-has-fiscal-problems-republicans-can-put-them-to-use.html][1990/01/21/0318981]]) Assemblyman Daniel Frisa of Westbury called Mr. Cuomo ''*the Carl Sagan of* /New York/ with his 'billions and billions' in taxes and spending.''
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/21/books/new-noteworthy.html][1990/01/21/0319074]]) ''Although Mr. Chaudhuri may not be what Saul Bellow would call *the Tolstoy of* /the Bengalis/, he may remind many readers of Nabokov's Pnin,'' our reviewer, David Lelyveld, said in 1988.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325487][Mike Wallace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/26/arts/tv-weekend-image-a-drama-on-ethics-of-investigative-reporting.html][1990/01/26/0320277]]) Mr. Finney, trying on an American accent that covers the Brit no better than his shirts cover his paunch, plays Jason Cromwell, *the Mike Wallace of* /the smash-hit program ''Here and Now.''/
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/28/books/omit-the-action-of-scarlett-belching.html][1990/01/28/0321292]]) Film Weekly called him ''*the Hitler of* /Hollywood/,'' but his values were actually the values of the moguls, though they barked and fought, barked and fought.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230591][Carson McCullers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/04/movies/stanley-and-iris-carries-a-message-of-h-o-p-e.html][1990/02/04/0323187]]) ''Pat's sort of *the Carson McCullers of* /the English Midlands/,'' said Ms.
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151972][Josephine Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/04/books/my-josephine-baker.html][1990/02/04/0323439]]) I had known nothing of *the Josephine Baker of* the bananas, the Josephine who was a sex symbol for the French in the 1920's, the Josephine for whom Pirandello wanted to write a play and Picasso wanted to paint, the Josephine who walked a leopard on a leash through the streets of Paris.+
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/11/books/h-bombs-dreams.html][1990/02/11/0325652]]) Edward Teller is *the Richard Nixon of* /American science/.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2599][Paul McCartney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/11/books/one-universe-at-a-time-please.html][1990/02/11/0325668]]) It has often been remarked that the youthful-looking Clive Barker resembles the youthful-looking Paul McCartney; I'd go a step farther and say that Clive Barker is *the Paul McCartney of* /horror fiction/ - like the Cute Beatle, Mr. Barker creates popular art that is superficially cheerful yet melancholy, if not profoundly pessimistic, at bottom.
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/12/sports/other-mighty-ones-who-fell.html][1990/02/12/0325887]]) ''Liston was *the Mike Tyson of* /his time/, an intimidator who knocked people out.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/13/opinion/foreign-affairs-it-s-wake-up-time.html][1990/02/13/0326212]]) On both sides of the apartheid struggle, there are people wondering whether Mr. de Klerk will turn out to be *the Gorbachev of* /South Africa/, a reformer who sets out on a modest course of change only to find that he uncages forces that ripple through society in unpredictable ways, forces that even threaten to overwhelm him.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464724][Bella Abzug]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/25/nyregion/at-80-fenwick-continues-to-confront-challenges.html][1990/02/25/0329684]]) Over the years, Mrs. Fenwick's espousal of liberal causes prompted some Republicans to refer to her jokingly as ''*the Bella Abzug of* /Somerset County/.''
15. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307][Galileo Galilei]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/25/travel/travel-advisory-927290.html][1990/02/25/0329848]]) The 1,100-passenger vessel, formerly *the Galileo of* the Fantasy line, was stripped to the hull and completely reconstructed, with larger cabins and public areas added.+
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508574][Billy Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/01/sports/sports-of-the-times-durocher-s-rose-martin-connection.html][1990/03/01/0330884]]) For several years now, Leo Durocher, who in some ways was both the Pete Rose and *the Billy Martin of* /his time/, has waited for a phone call that would tell him he had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by its veterans committee.
17. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508574][Billy Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/01/sports/sports-of-the-times-durocher-s-rose-martin-connection.html][1990/03/01/0330884]]) LEAD: For several years now, Leo Durocher, who in some ways was both the Pete Rose and *the Billy Martin of* /his time/, has waited for a phone call that would tell him he had been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by its veterans committee.+ (D)
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/02/movies/review-film-new-directions-8-brief-works-in-90-minutes.html][1990/03/02/0330974]]) ''Howard Finster: Man of Visions'' is a good straightforward report on the career of Mr. Finster, a Southern backwoods preacher, now in his 70's, who has been called *the Picasso of* /folk art/.
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209518][Wayne Gretzky]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/02/sports/no-rough-stuff-allowed.html][1990/03/02/0331029]]) Her coach, Don MacLeod, describes Vicky Sunohara as *the Wayne Gretzky of* /women's hockey/.
20. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209518][Wayne Gretzky]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/02/sports/no-rough-stuff-allowed.html][1990/03/02/0331029]]) LEAD: Her coach, Don MacLeod, describes Vicky Sunohara as *the Wayne Gretzky of* /women's hockey/.+ (D)
21. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381157][Orrin Hatch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/02/us/washington-work-orrin-hatch-s-journey-strict-conservative-compromise-seeker.html][1990/03/02/0331099]]) ''I think *the Orrin Hatch of* 1977 might have come to a different conclusion about many of these issues,'' he said.+
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1111386][Robert Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/03/nyregion/after-12-years-koch-says-rohatyn-misuses-watchdog-power.html][1990/03/03/0331384]]) He called him ''*the Robert Moses of* /municipal finance/,'' a reference to the powerful but unelected ''master builder'' who dominated planning in the city for decades.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/nyregion/long-island-journal-356190.html][1990/03/04/0331531]]) As *the Steven Spielberg of* /knot-tying adventure/, Mr. Phillips spends most of his nonteaching hours armed with a video camera seeking out knot-tying people.
24. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/opinion/on-my-mind-the-monk-and-the-president.html][1990/03/04/0331825]]) For five days last month, Tenzin Gyatso, a Buddhist monk who is *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, was the guest of Vaclav Havel, a playwright who is the President of Czechoslovakia.+
25. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/opinion/on-my-mind-the-monk-and-the-president.html][1990/03/04/0331825]]) LEAD: For five days last month, Tenzin Gyatso, a Buddhist monk who is *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, was the guest of Vaclav Havel, a playwright who is the President of Czechoslovakia.+
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297142][Joe DiMaggio]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/magazine/the-man-who-owns-prime-time.html][1990/03/04/0331905]]) That achievement makes him a significant contributor to American mass culture, every bit as much as the 68-week winning streak makes him *the Joe DiMaggio of* /the Nielsen game/.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/04/magazine/the-man-who-owns-prime-time.html][1990/03/04/0331905]]) of programming; now he's *the Richard Nixon of* /programming/.'
28. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/07/sports/soaring-slam-dunk-leaper-on-ice.html][1990/03/07/0332581]]) LEAD: She is *the Michael Jordan of* /figure skating/, a dazzling athlete of uncommon skill who performs at a level unattained by many skaters, unattainable by most others.+ (D)
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/07/sports/soaring-slam-dunk-leaper-on-ice.html][1990/03/07/0332581]]) She is *the Michael Jordan of* /figure skating/, a dazzling athlete of uncommon skill who performs at a level unattained by many skaters, unattainable by most others.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1247268][Maxwell Smart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/08/us/wounds-2-parties-attack-bush-s-east-europe-policy-hits-target-but-then-it.html][1990/03/08/0332910]]) Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, described the Missouri Democrat as ''*the Maxwell Smart of* /politics/,'' comparing him to the verbose, bumbling television detective of the 1960's.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4982930][Buck Rogers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/08/garden/currents-serving-up-the-future-on-silver-plate.html][1990/03/08/0332986]]) ''He's like *the Buck Rogers of* /today/.''
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q893138][Booth Tarkington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/11/books/spies-thrillers.html][1990/03/11/0333601]]) Call Mr. Lehrer *the Booth Tarkington of* /Oklahoma/.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443680][Frank Lorenzo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/11/business/business-diary.html][1990/03/11/0333692]]) Will Fred G. Currey become *the Frank Lorenzo of* /the bus business/?
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325487][Mike Wallace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/12/arts/review-television-pointing-a-lively-finger-at-consumers-frustrations.html][1990/03/12/0334074]]) He is *the Mike Wallace of* /the Grand Concourse/.
35. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/16/world/upheaval-east-51-years-after-hitler-marched-prague-welcomes-german-chief.html][1990/03/16/0335069]]) Mr. Havel has also used ceremony to make larger points, inviting *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner, as one of his first official foreign visitors, to the irritation of Beijing.+
36. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172653][Maggie Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/18/magazine/there-is-nothing-like-this-dame.html][1990/03/18/0335792]]) The arm-flailing and wrist-wringing she brings to Lettice Douffet make apparent only one side of her; the other is *the Maggie Smith of* Bennett's ''Bed Among the Lentils,'' her distinguished 50-minute solo television performance in 1988, playing the alcoholic wife of a vicar, rescued by her sad-eyed wit.+
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60303][Lotte Lehmann]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/22/arts/review-recital-christa-ludwig-takes-on-schubert-s-raw-despair.html][1990/03/22/0336784]]) In this, as in other ways, she is *the Lotte Lehmann of* /her generation/.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443680][Frank Lorenzo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/22/business/strike-stalls-greyhound-s-revival.html][1990/03/22/0336893]]) But his insistence on replacing strikers with nonunion drivers, and retaining them after the strike, has made him *the Frank Lorenzo of* /the highways/ in the eyes of Greyhound drivers, and raised the prospect of a long and bitter strike, Professor Shaiken said.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5488961][Frank Perdue]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/28/garden/de-gustibus-winter-strawberry-its-life-and-its-king.html][1990/03/28/0338652]]) He looked like *the Frank Perdue of* /strawberries/.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2596171][John Henry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/03/science/devices-help-scientists-find-supernovas.html][1990/04/03/0340484]]) Evans as *the John Henry of* /astronomy/,'' Dr. Woosley said.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202285][Buffalo Bill]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/garden/how-the-west-was-done.html][1990/04/05/0340995]]) In his sense of showmanship, Molesworth was *the Buffalo Bill of* /furniture/.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604][Frank Lloyd Wright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/05/garden/how-the-west-was-done.html][1990/04/05/0340995]]) And, like raptors swooping for a kill, antiques dealers are descending on the town, desperately seeking ''*the Frank Lloyd Wright of* /the West/.''
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887520][Harold Stassen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/07/nyregion/man-in-the-news-a-visionary-as-planner-richard-lance-schaffer.html][1990/04/07/0341525]]) Before Mr. Dinkins selected him, Mr. Schafffer said he dreamed that if he did not get the post, ''I was on my way to becoming *the Harold Stassen of* /New York City/,'' a reference to the perpetual but always unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for President.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q430714][Al Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/10/us/washington-work-stay-ahead-history-fast-must-jackson-run-for-what.html][1990/04/10/0342368]]) Does he ever fear becoming *the Al Smith of* /black political history/, who blazes the trail but never makes it to the final destination?
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1508079][George Plimpton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/15/world/reporter-s-notebook-behold-bush-a-diplomat-of-the-mists.html][1990/04/15/0343931]]) Today's sport for *the George Plimpton of* /the political world/ was golf at the fabled Mid-Ocean Club -in the rain and the wind, with small-craft warnings flying and palm trees blown inside out like flimsy umbrellas.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102870][Harriet Tubman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/19/garden/living-with-a-heritage-afrocentric-art-and-design.html][1990/04/19/0345203]]) She was like *the Harriet Tubman of* /Zimbabwe/.
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9960][Ronald Reagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/21/us/for-north-missions-that-have-one-goal.html][1990/04/21/0345692]]) Many conservatives see Mr. North as the man who can rejuvenate the right - the Barry Goldwater and *the Ronald Reagan of* /the 1990's/.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234952][Betsy Ross]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/22/nyregion/an-elmont-seamstress-is-the-betsy-ross-of-horse-racing.html][1990/04/22/0345887]]) An Elmont Seamstress Is *the Betsy Ross of* /Horse Racing/
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434][Ernest Hemingway]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/29/books/paperbacks-the-world-by-the-light-of-the-sea.html][1990/04/29/0348711]]) A great many of our classic tales of travel and adventure (as bookstores customarily combine them) are ventures into the interior, explorations of the landscape of the self, even while they are advertised as treks across Antarctica or Arabia, assaults on snowy unreachable peaks, cockroachy crawls into the cracks of the earth, voyages alone around the world or those hunts that test *the Hemingway of* /the heart/ - to mention some of our more popular ordeals.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/30/business/with-shoe-on-capitalist-foot-czechs-woo-old-industrialist.html][1990/04/30/0348915]]) The elder Bata, who died in a plane crash near Zlin in 1932, was *the Henry Ford of* /Czechoslovakia/, introducing mass-production techniques to his nation and building its largest industrial empire.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/02/garden/de-gustibus-a-mother-a-daughter-a-bond-in-codfish.html][1990/05/02/0349615]]) Ms. O'Connor is rapidly becoming *the Oprah Winfrey of* /West 46th Street/.
52. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q431223][Oliver North]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/08/opinion/topics-of-the-times-hacker-s-license.html][1990/05/08/0351502]]) LEAD: Robert Tappan Morris is *the Oliver North of* /computer abuse/.+ (D)
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q431223][Oliver North]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/08/opinion/topics-of-the-times-hacker-s-license.html][1990/05/08/0351502]]) Robert Tappan Morris is *the Oliver North of* /computer abuse/.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49325][Albert Schweitzer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/08/obituaries/carroll-behrhorst-67-doctor-to-guatemalans.html][1990/05/08/0351596]]) Many of those who knew him called him *the Albert Schweitzer of* /the New World/.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q715511][Dick Butkus]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/style/pastimes-bridge.html][1990/05/13/0352759]]) He was *the Dick Butkus of* /bridge/, Hamman said: ''A hard man with a Masters in violence.''
56. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234952][Betsy Ross]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/nyregion/l-winning-a-place-to-show-racing-silks-808490.html][1990/05/13/0353111]]) LEAD: The article on April 22 [''Elmont Seamstress Is *the Betsy Ross of* /Horse Racing/'']  tells us that Antoinette Brocklebank sews 25 percent of the silks at Belmont, so it's 4 to 1 that the winning jockey will wear her outfit.+ (D)
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234952][Betsy Ross]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/nyregion/l-winning-a-place-to-show-racing-silks-808490.html][1990/05/13/0353111]]) The article on April 22 [''Elmont Seamstress Is *the Betsy Ross of* /Horse Racing/'']  tells us that Antoinette Brocklebank sews 25 percent of the silks at Belmont, so it's 4 to 1 that the winning jockey will wear her outfit.
58. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3481584][Shaun Stafford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/15/sports/results-plus-695390.html][1990/05/15/0353592]]) Mandlikova, seeded 15th, who last played a tournament six weeks ago, beat *the Shaun Stafford of* the United States, 6-4, 6-3, in a first-round match.+
59. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/20/arts/review-music-ladysmith-black-mambazo-with-oldies-and-novelties.html][1990/05/20/0354739]]) Life's not hard when you ''stop thinking about yourself,'' says *the Jesus of* this play, taking a thinly veiled swipe at the values of the me generation.+
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/21/business/the-media-business-advertising-agency-with-a-cause.html][1990/05/21/0355271]]) The Public Media Center is *the Ralph Nader of* /agencies/, creating advertising that promotes consumers' rights and sells social change.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q961660][Red Holzman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/21/sports/doing-it-their-way-suns-are-thriving.html][1990/05/21/0355274]]) Once I told him I was staying in Phoenix for good, I kind of became *the Red Holzman of* /the West Coast/.
62. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/25/arts/review-art-drawings-by-masters-visit-from-rotterdam.html][1990/05/25/0356320]]) There was *the Rembrandt of* his wife, Saskia, at the window.+
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211111][Ursula Andress]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/27/books/sincerely-theirs-letters-as-literature.html][1990/05/27/0356702]]) But you, you're *the Ursula Andress of* /militancy/.''
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314929][Dick Francis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/27/books/spies-thrillers.html][1990/05/27/0356719]]) *  *  *         Sam Llewellyn has been described as *the Dick Francis of* /sailing/, and for good reason.
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11662][Steffi Graf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/28/sports/graf-cultivating-outside-interests.html][1990/05/28/0357142]]) But unlike her tearful and ghostly demeanor following her June 1989 loss to Sanchez Vicario, when she worried her family and coach by going into solitary confinement for a two-day crying jag, *the Steffi Graf of* May 1990 was somber yet composed in defeat.+
66. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/books/in-short-nonfiction-845190.html][1990/06/03/0358698]]) The story of His Holiness *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet is almost mythic in its beginning: the 2-year-old child who, in 1936, unerringly picked from a series of paired objects (two rosaries, two walking sticks, two drums) the one that had belonged to his predecessor, the 13th Dalai Lama, and eventually ascended to spiritual and political leadership of Tibet.+
67. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1230737][Pat Carroll]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/07/theater/an-artful-falstaff-who-transcends-sex.html][1990/06/07/0359353]]) She is *the Pat Carroll of* the Sid Caesar, Danny Thomas and Red Buttons television shows of the 1950's, the Pat Carroll of the ''Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein'' one-woman show of the early 80's, and the possessor of the husky, seductive voice of Ursula, the wicked sea witch in ''The Little Mermaid.''+
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1230737][Pat Carroll]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/07/theater/an-artful-falstaff-who-transcends-sex.html][1990/06/07/0359353]]) She is the Pat Carroll of the Sid Caesar, Danny Thomas and Red Buttons television shows of the 1950's, *the Pat Carroll of* the ''Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein'' one-woman show of the early 80's, and the possessor of the husky, seductive voice of Ursula, the wicked sea witch in ''The Little Mermaid.''+
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/business/business-diary.html][1990/06/10/0359921]]) One study under way is likely to dispute the value of recent trade agreements with Japan; Mr. Prestowitz, a former Commerce Department official and businessman, has become *the Mike Tyson of* /Japan-bashers/.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443680][Frank Lorenzo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/weekinreview/the-nation-greyhound-takes-the-road-to-bankruptcy.html][1990/06/10/0360016]]) Whether or not Mr. Currey wanted to break the drivers' union, Greyhound's slide into bankruptcy has made him *the Frank Lorenzo of* /the highways/ in some people's eyes.
71. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16227997][Charles Lakes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/sports/gymnastics-spirited-comeback-has-its-rough-side.html][1990/06/10/0360035]]) Others agreed with Connelly that this was not *the Charles Lakes of* old.+
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/travel/mosaic-postcards-from-paradise.html][1990/06/10/0360211]]) According to scholars, he's a layman named Julianus Argentarius, a banker who helped bankroll no less than five great churches in the area, *the Donald Trump of* /his time/.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314929][Dick Francis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/books/books-for-vacation-reading.html][1990/06/10/0360283]]) Mr. Llewellyn, *the Dick Francis of* /sailing/, writes cleanly and unaffectedly about racing boats, real estate deals - and murder.
74. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/movies/how-a-30-s-stiff-became-a-charmer-for-the-90-s.html][1990/06/10/0360362]]) But just as *the James Bond of* the Bond books gets lost in the Bond movies, the gaunt, teeth-baring, square-jawed Tracy of the comic strips is somehow sweetened and civilized in the Tracy movie.+
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/14/books/books-of-the-times-maybe-the-greatest-act-of-all.html][1990/06/14/0360989]]) Barnum, as Mr. Culhane puts it, was *the Walt Disney of* /his day/.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507320][George Ernest Shelley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/17/books/he-drank-the-milk-of-paradise.html][1990/06/17/0361800]]) Born in 1772, Coleridge was in many ways *the Shelley of* /the earlier generation of Romantic poets/ - brilliant, young, flamboyant, with a philosophical bent and radical ideals.
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950][James Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/29/arts/pop-jazz-a-gathering-of-greats-rare-even-in-new-york.html][1990/06/29/0364544]]) Also, Oscar D'Leon, *the James Brown of* /salsa/, will bring in his high-powered group.
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7693393][Ted Kluszewski]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/02/sports/question-box.html][1990/07/02/0365330]]) Left-handed all the way, standing 6 feet 2 inches and weighing about 200 pounds, he might have been *the Ted Kluszewski of* /his day/; he certainly swung the bat like one.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358519][Gordie Howe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/13/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-j-talks-speed-cars-and-drivers.html][1990/07/13/0367812]]) Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr. is more than *the Gordie Howe of* /auto racing/.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145696][Dennis Eckersley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/15/sports/views-on-sport-a-mystery-man-in-the-end-to-dimaggio-s-streak.html][1990/07/15/0368449]]) The right-handed Murphy, a New Yorker who later served as general manager of the Mets, was the game's top reliever, *the Dennis Eckersley of* /his day/.
81. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/22/us/investigation-of-vote-buying-shakes-s-carolina-capital.html][1990/07/22/0370546]]) Japanese in the New York Region Begin to Feel *the Sting of* Prejudice+
82. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314548][Gerard van Honthorst]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/22/magazine/a-fine-scottish-hand.html][1990/07/22/0370611]]) A stranger case is *the Gerrit van Honthorst of* ''Christ Before the High Priest.''+
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190152][Larry Bird]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/29/sports/goodwill-games-basketball-gold-is-still-in-sight-for-us.html][1990/07/29/0372556]]) On Wednesday, the slender 6-foot-8-inch Day hounded Antonella Riva of Italy, not always graciously, and then on Friday he was assigned to guard Oscar, *the Larry Bird of* /Brazil/, who has been lofting jump shots in international competition for 14 years.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/03/world/iraqi-invasion-invading-iraqis-seize-kuwait-its-oil-us-condemns-attack-urges.html][1990/08/03/0373439]]) Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Mr. Hussein ''*the Hitler of* /the Middle East/'' and criticized Mr. Bush for not having moved earlier to forestall an invasion.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37103][Florence Nightingale]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/04/obituaries/lucy-g-moses-103-benefactor-of-hospitals-schools-and-parks.html][1990/08/04/0373541]]) ''They called me *the Florence Nightingale of* /the trees/,'' Mrs. Moses said at the time.
86. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/08/books/books-of-the-times-534790.html][1990/08/08/0374627]]) Unlike *the Cassandra of* Greek legend, who was the handsomest of Priam's daughters, Miss Thompson's photographs show her to be healthily attractive rather than strikingly beautiful.+
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281847][Lee Iacocca]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/11/business/new-continental-chief-plans-to-transform-line-s-image.html][1990/08/11/0375250]]) Its chairman, Jan Carlzon, is credited with turning the airline around in the early 1980s, earning a reputation as ''*the Lee Iacocca of* /Europe/,'' one analyst said.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192667][Manuel Noriega]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/12/opinion/saddam-hussein-mideast-s-noriega-has-to-go.html][1990/08/12/0375644]]) It is Saddam Hussein, *the Noriega of* /the Middle East/.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230120][Julia Margaret Cameron]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/12/books/the-small-folks-at-home.html][1990/08/12/0375852]]) She took to photography zealously, professionally, becoming *the Julia Margaret Cameron of* /Washington/, posing in front of her camera passing senators, generals, dogs and children.
90. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2071][David Lynch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/17/movies/at-the-movies.html][1990/08/17/0377133]]) It was, of course, Mr. Lynch - *the David Lynch of* the much-discussed ''Blue Velvet'' and the even more discussed ''Twin Peaks'' - who brought Miss Dern and Mr. Cage together as Lula and Sailor.+
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/nyregion/council-school-offers-training-to-hopefuls.html][1990/08/19/0377711]]) The Council, long considered *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /local politics/, ascended to the center of city government with the demise of the Board of Estimate last week.
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5480583][Joseph Papp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/arts/theater-the-joe-papp-of-bali-finds-himself-in-a-cultural-pickle.html][1990/08/19/0377790]]) A man who inspires admiration and sometimes jealousy among his colleagues, Made Bandem is, in a sense, *the Joseph Papp of* /Bali/.
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7235][Sophocles]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/19/travel/fare-of-the-country-ice-cream-for-la-dolce-vita.html][1990/08/19/0377828]]) Such differences are the mark of the true gelateria artigianale, the craft of ice-cream making, says *the Sophocles of* /ice cream today/, Nazareno Giolitti.
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152779][Louise Brooks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/20/books/books-of-the-times-the-influence-of-jazz-on-popular-singing.html][1990/08/20/0378133]]) There is a fascinatingly abbreviated saga of Annette Hanshaw, ''*the Louise Brooks of* /jazz/,'' as Mr. Friedwald calls her.
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45661][Coco Chanel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/26/arts/antiques-discovered-along-the-flowered-silk-route.html][1990/08/26/0379712]]) Since pattern was what determined style, she was in a sense *the Coco Chanel of* /her time/, though her name is curiously absent from contemporary correspondence and diaries.
96. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103894][Alec Guinness]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/27/theater/critic-s-notebook-theater-in-britain-is-no-longer-a-bargain.html][1990/08/27/0379862]]) Shuffling on at first as a timid, faceless nonentity, compulsively smiling and mouthing platitudes, the star more resembled *the Alec Guinness of* 1950's Ealing comedies and the Peter Sellers of ''Being There'' than the aggressive, rough-edged actor still best known to Americans for ''The Singing Detective.''+
97. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177984][Peter Sellers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/27/theater/critic-s-notebook-theater-in-britain-is-no-longer-a-bargain.html][1990/08/27/0379862]]) Shuffling on at first as a timid, faceless nonentity, compulsively smiling and mouthing platitudes, the star more resembled the Alec Guinness of 1950's Ealing comedies and *the Peter Sellers of* ''Being There'' than the aggressive, rough-edged actor still best known to Americans for ''The Singing Detective.''+
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622636][Spike Jones]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/29/movies/pop-life.html][1990/08/29/0380281]]) In ''Don Henley Must Die,'' one of the year's funniest pop songs, Mojo Nixon, a performer who might be described as *the Spike Jones of* /rock-and-roll/, demands the electric chair for the former Eagle as punishment for his being ''pretentious'' and ''whining like a wounded beagle.''
99. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322][Christopher Columbus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/01/books/books-of-the-times-christopher-columbus-in-magical-realism.html][1990/09/01/0380843]]) This is not *the Columbus of* legend.+
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/02/business/the-executive-computer-unsure-what-program-to-buy-sample-some.html][1990/09/02/0380974]]) File Finder is the alias of Dr. Callahan, a medical doctor who devoted himself to computers and developed a reputation among electronic bulletin board users as *the Johnny Appleseed of* /shareware/.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721948][Nolan Ryan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/07/sports/sports-of-the-times-mcenroe-cooks-up-a-storm.html][1990/09/07/0382279]]) One ominous night, Bjorn Borg was beaten before he faced the missiles of Roscoe Tanner, *the Nolan Ryan of* /tennis/.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294927][Jerry Lewis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/09/nyregion/about-long-island-the-baymen-s-friend.html][1990/09/09/0382554]]) ''I don't want to become *the Jerry Lewis of* /the disenfranchised commercial fishermen/,'' he said.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/18/books/a-boyhood-hero-brings-an-author-71-his-first-best-seller.html][1990/09/18/0384922]]) ''He was *the James Bond of* /the 1840's/,'' Mr. Rice says.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41508][Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/23/magazine/restaurants-new-york-mealtime-dealtime.html][1990/09/23/0386272]]) Interested in ceremonial objects, the artist began applying to them Modernist principles and by the early 1930's was well on the way to becoming *the Mies van der Rohe of* /the genre/, particularly with respect to Hebrew calligraphy but not to the point of Bauhaus ''baldness.''
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/30/business/market-watch-a-whiff-of-deflation-in-the-air.html][1990/09/30/0387764]]) Jim Grant, the editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer and *the Cassandra of* /financial markets in the late 1980's/, notes that the plunging Japanese stock market is slashing bank capital in Tokyo, since banks have been allowed to count unrealized stock market gains as equity.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855][Joseph Stalin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/01/world/world-summit-for-children-excerpts-remarks-leaders-un-world-summit-for-children.html][1990/10/01/0388083]]) But I have seen even greater perversities, if only on the movies or on TV; I saw Hitler waving in a friendly manner to fanaticized little girls of the Hitlerjugend; I saw mass murderer Stalin kissing a child with the red Communist youth organization scarf, a child whose parents ended up like so many in Gulag camps; I saw Gottwald, *the Stalin of* /Czechoslovakia/, smilingly joking with young miners, the builders of socialism and soon to be cripples; I saw the Iraqi president Hussein patting the children of his hostages whom - as he now says - he is ready to have shot.
107. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/07/business/wall-street-the-stock-the-market-sneered-at.html][1990/10/07/0389336]]) LEAD: To Wall Street, the Tandy Corporation has become *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the technology scene/.+ (D)
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/07/business/wall-street-the-stock-the-market-sneered-at.html][1990/10/07/0389336]]) To Wall Street, the Tandy Corporation has become *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the technology scene/.
109. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356696][Jethro Tull]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/07/arts/review-pop-heavy-metal-from-seattle.html][1990/10/07/0389345]]) While the music usually looks back to Black Sabbath, Cream, Savoy Brown and *the Jethro Tull of* ''Aqualung,'' it can also leap into the double time of speed-metal.+
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207][George W. Bush]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/08/us/the-budget-battle-reporter-s-notebook-debate-brings-delay-and-disruption.html][1990/10/08/0389795]]) But Representative David R. Obey, Democrat of Wisconsin, said the situation was inexcusable, and accused *the President Bush of* cheating tourists.+
111. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q882][Charlie Chaplin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/13/arts/review-music-10th-season-of-offering-new-works.html][1990/10/13/0390856]]) The ballet music rattles like a machine shop, but the attitude is mocking sarcasm - one pictures *the Charlie Chaplin of* ''Modern Times'' set loose among the gears and pistons.+
112. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q882][Charlie Chaplin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/13/arts/review-music-10th-season-of-offering-new-works.html][1990/10/13/0390857]]) The ballet music rattles like a machine shop, but the attitude is mocking sarcasm - one pictures *the Charlie Chaplin of* ''Modern Times'' set loose among the gears and pistons.+
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103949][Buster Keaton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/15/theater/review-theater-calvin-trillin-in-words-no-music.html][1990/10/15/0392151]]) Calvin Trillin is *the Buster Keaton of* /performance humorists/.
114. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103949][Buster Keaton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/15/theater/review-theater-calvin-trillin-in-words-no-music.html][1990/10/15/0392151]]) LEAD: Calvin Trillin is *the Buster Keaton of* /performance humorists/.+ (D)
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6075016][Irwin Corey]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/books/what-a-sea-of-stories-taught-me.html][1990/10/21/0393857]]) Having spent a good part of the last year and a quarter at the task of reading for an annual best-story collection, I've begun to feel like *the Professor Irwin Corey of* /the short story/ - the world's greatest living authority over a discipline that doesn't exactly exist, a professorship of nothing, tenured in the university without walls.
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6075016][Irwin Corey]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/books/what-a-sea-of-stories-taught-me.html][1990/10/21/0393857]]) LEAD: Having spent a good part of the last year and a quarter at the task of reading for an annual best-story collection, I've begun to feel like *the Professor Irwin Corey of* /the short story/ - the world's greatest living authority over a discipline that doesn't exactly exist, a professorship of nothing, tenured in the university without walls.+ (D)
117. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2013721][David Dukes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/24/opinion/l-racism-has-always-been-an-economic-issue-forgotten-inventor-667690.html][1990/10/24/0394916]]) Why should they not drift toward *the David Dukes of* this country?+
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/28/books/books-business-doing-good-well.html][1990/10/28/0396229]]) At 80 years of age, Peter Drucker remains *the Babe Ruth of* /management writers/, still hitting home runs.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887401][Bo Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/31/sports/sports-of-the-times-new-history-being-made-at-virginia.html][1990/10/31/0396993]]) But teammates they are: Dooley, a fifth-year receiver, too slow and too small to be recruited, and Kirby, a sophomore running back who would only attend a school that would allow him to be *the Bo Jackson of* /autumn and winter/.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152505][Leonard Bernstein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/04/arts/classical-view-america-still-shuns-americans.html][1990/11/04/0397821]]) Johnson, on a much lower level of talent and achievement, was *the Leonard Bernstein of* /his day/, hailed as the first native-born conductor to head a major American orchestra.
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368744][Charles Atlas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/06/sports/sports-of-the-times-laundry-list-for-the-knicks.html][1990/11/06/0398601]]) And that was when Charles Oakley, *the Charles Atlas of* /forwards/, was about to attempt a jump shot.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347528][Liberace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/11/arts/dance-view-divining-the-mystique-of-mark-morris.html][1990/11/11/0399880]]) There are times when Mr. Morris has been in danger of becoming *the Liberace of* /American dance/ rather than the next Balanchine.
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192218][Ted Bundy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/11/magazine/days-and-nights-in-baghdad.html][1990/11/11/0399939]]) "This," he explodes, "is *the Ted Bundy of* /countries/!"
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348011][Joe Montana]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/13/business/dow-soars-cut-by-fed-is-expected.html][1990/11/13/0400456]]) Traders took heart in the strong leadership of I.B.M., *the Joe Montana of* /the stock market/.
125. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2289535][Rocky Balboa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/16/movies/review-film-rocky-buffeted-by-fists-and-life-returns-to-his-roots.html][1990/11/16/0401349]]) HIDDEN in the attic at the Balboa manor house are a black leather jacket, an old sweatshirt and a porkpie hat, relics of *the Rocky of* yore.+
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93188][Errol Flynn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/books/where-s-the-rest-of-him.html][1990/11/18/0402002]]) Nevertheless, Mr. Reagan was signed up and became "*the Errol Flynn of* /the B pictures/," eventually making a couple of A films as well: "Knute Rockne -- All American," in which he played the dying Gipper, and "Kings Row," in which he played a young man who loses his legs.
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131725][Joan Baez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/25/nyregion/the-guide-201990.html][1990/11/25/0403716]]) Marina Kapura, the lead vocalist, has been described by Pete Seeger as "*the Joan Baez of* /the Soviet Union/."
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q961851][Nelson Riddle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/26/arts/review-music-harry-connick-jr-on-piano-drums-etc.html][1990/11/26/0404159]]) "Buried in Blue," which ends the second act, is one of several numbers in the show in which the band is joined by strings, arranged and conducted by Marc Shaiman, the gifted young arranger and composer who is becoming *the Nelson Riddle of* /his generation/.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/29/nyregion/what-a-stroke-of-um-ingenuity-anyhow.html][1990/11/29/0404840]]) He promised a three-day showcase of the newest and neatest brainstorms, a chance for inventors to rub elbows with other inventors -- including, of course, the man who bills himself as *the Thomas Edison of* /Japan/, a man who even invented his own name.
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/29/nyregion/what-a-stroke-of-um-ingenuity-anyhow.html][1990/11/29/0404840]]) The man who bills himself as *the Thomas Edison of* /Japan/ has been in New York all week, presiding over something called the World Genius Convention.+
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81438][Walt Whitman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/02/books/architecture.html][1990/12/02/0405597]]) Louis Sullivan was *the Walt Whitman of* /American architecture/, a sprawling genius of startling originality and unrestrained vitality whose spirit embraced multitudes.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1413][Nero]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/02/travel/operatic-memorabilia-at-la-scala.html][1990/12/02/0405643]]) The souvenirs of Mascagni's opera "Nero" are 10 times as interesting if we remember that the year of the performance in question was 1934 -- a time at which Mussolini was shaping up to become *the Nero of* /his day/.
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107190][Peter Pan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/07/arts/review-art-grouping-of-abstracts-for-serious-looking.html][1990/12/07/0406630]]) Richard Tuttle may be *the Peter Pan of* /contemporary art/: the artist who refuses to grow up or old, or to settle down in any way.
134. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q963129][Lawrence Taylor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/10/sports/cancel-lt-s-rocking-chair.html][1990/12/10/0407561]]) But yesterday, he wasn't an old Lawrence Taylor; he was *the Lawrence Taylor of* old.+
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134262][Tennessee Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/20/business/the-media-business-advertising-an-offbeat-campaign-for-dutch-cheese.html][1990/12/20/0409721]]) "I fancy myself," he said, "*the Tennessee Williams of* /the dairy case/."
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322][Christopher Columbus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/23/arts/l-francesco-clemente-the-columbus-of-the-art-world-498390.html][1990/12/23/0410524]]) He'd be considered *the Columbus of* /the art world/, only he wasn't even nearly the first European to claim others' cultures.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2071][David Lynch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/23/arts/review-music-beethoven-concerto-in-context-of-its-time.html][1990/12/23/0410588]]) That meant, on Wednesday, eager introductory remarks by Mr. Kapilow that largely duplicated his own program notes, some silly overstatements ("Beethoven, *the David Lynch of* /his times/.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/sports/the-wild-and-wonderful-life-of-jack-haley.html][1990/12/24/0410716]]) "But, in reality, I think I could be *the Michael Jordan of* /12th men/."
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q342778][Pat Boone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/30/arts/pop-music-1990-the-best-show-in-the-court-not-the-concert-hall.html][1990/12/30/0411789]]) How did *the Pat Boone of* /rap/ -- slow, mediocre and unconvincing -- get the first No.
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278804][Bear Bryant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/30/sports/views-of-sport-keep-the-college-bowls-but-clean-up-the-mess.html][1990/12/30/0412106]]) The reason Colorado is playing Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl is because Notre Dame (*the Bear Bryant of* /the times/), and not the Orange Bowl Committee, insisted a decision be made two weeks before pick-'em day.

** 1991
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/01/us/leaving-public-office-dukakis-reflects-and-emerges-upbeat.html][1991/01/01/0412462]]) "But I think it's clearly a warning to us as Democrats that we cannot let them make quotas *the Willie Horton of* /1992/."
2. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905][Franz Kafka]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/04/arts/review-art-henry-fuseli-s-drawings-of-life-s-lusts-and-compulsions.html][1991/01/04/0412998]]) When the naked figures of Virgil and Dante board the back of the giant Geryon, with its wrathful fatherly face and its huge scorpionlike tail pointed at them like a sorcerer's curse, there is the sense of an Oedipal conflict that *the Kafka of* "The Judgment" would understand.+
3. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27914430][Van Dyck]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/06/arts/art-view-a-dizzying-essay-in-higher-education.html][1991/01/06/0413334]]) One of the most beautiful portraits of an Englishman ever painted is, for instance, *the Van Dyck of* William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh.+
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955322][Shoeless Joe Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/08/sports/sports-of-the-times-early-on-a-cold-gray-day.html][1991/01/08/0413837]]) "He's sort of like *the Shoeless Joe Jackson of* /today/, isn't he?"
5. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259847][Katerina Maleeva]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/20/sports/australian-open.html][1991/01/20/0416553]]) But the most intriguing matchup in the women's fourth round could be between *the Katerina Maleeva of* Bulgaria, seeded fifth, and her 14-year-old sister Magdalena, who stunned Roslyn Fairbank-Nideffer, 6-2, 6-3.+
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864751][The Hatter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/20/magazine/beauty-the-roots-of-rock.html][1991/01/20/0416604]]) Thomas: Forget the hair club, she's *the Mad Hatter of* /rap/.
7. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34670][Albert Camus]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/books/a-phenomenologist-bares-his-heart.html][1991/01/27/0418285]]) When his novel "La Maison de Rendez-vous" appeared in 1965, The Times Literary Supplement of London observed that Mr. Robbe-Grillet had become a gifted pornographer; "Ghosts in the Mirror" also shows him in a new role, that of gifted rhapsodist, akin to *the Albert Camus of* the North African essays.+
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5264][Hippocrates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/books/sin-has-come-a-long-way-since-1939.html][1991/01/27/0418298]]) "I give you *the Hippocrates of* /the quick needle/, Dr.
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339][Johann Sebastian Bach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/arts/recordings-view-facing-up-finally-to-bach-s-dark-vision.html][1991/01/27/0418405]]) How utterly irrelevant this whole esthetic is to *the Bach of* the cantatas!+
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511][Richard Wagner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/01/theater/review-theater-a-dead-jewish-mother-and-layers-of-guilt.html][1991/02/01/0419348]]) But David Greenspan apparently aspires to be *the Richard Wagner of* /the genre/.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/03/style/style-makers-barbara-bosha-nelson-jewelry-maker.html][1991/02/03/0419929]]) Now she is *the Proust of* /typewriter jewelry/.
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153579][Stephen Sondheim]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/06/arts/the-pop-life-927091.html][1991/02/06/0420740]]) In the elegant precision and savage acuity of lyrics for songs like "Blizzard of Lies," "The Wheelers and the Dealers," "My Attorney Bernie," "Can't Take You Nowhere" and "I'm Hip," to name several of the roughly 100 songs he's written, Mr. Frishberg might be described as *the Stephen Sondheim of* /jazz songwriting/.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/08/arts/review-music-of-rap-race-decibels-and-a-precision-hairdo.html][1991/02/08/0421220]]) Vanilla Ice has been called *the Elvis Presley of* /rap/, but that's an insult to Presley, who transformed the blues and country music he drew on.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441][Emily Dickinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/10/books/in-short-fiction-442391.html][1991/02/10/0421854]]) In the time it takes to drink one cup of coffee, Ruth reminds Ellen of how "immensely capable" she is, pushes her to pursue her dream career (seamstress) and set up her business, mirabile dictu, in her own attic so she will never have to leave her house again -- becoming *the Emily Dickinson of* /the perfectly turned hem/.
15. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q502002][Andrei Chesnokov]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/15/sports/results-plus-955091.html][1991/02/15/0423546]]) Also advancing were Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland and *the Andrei Chesnokov of* the Soviet Union.+
16. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/books/cruel-and-usual-punishment.html][1991/02/17/0423941]]) So far as a rationale can be found in the New Testament -- *the Jesus of* the Gospels, Mr. Greven points out, never urges punishment for children -- it comes mostly from assurances of the reality of hell.+
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314929][Dick Francis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/books/new-noteworthy.html][1991/02/17/0423942]]) "Sam Llewellyn has been described as *the Dick Francis of* /sailing/, and for good reason," Newgate Callendar said here last year.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5079691][Charles Keating]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/us/judge-allows-bail-for-a-banker-charged-in-a-virginia-fraud-case.html][1991/02/17/0423984]]) "This man is *the Charles Keating of* /Virginia/," said Mr.
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5079691][Charles Keating]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/us/judge-allows-bail-for-a-banker-charged-in-a-virginia-fraud-case.html][1991/02/17/0423984]]) Ruling against the Government, a Federal magistrate here has decided that a former mortgage banker charged with a $500 million fraud and described by prosecutors as "*the Charles Keating of* /Virginia/" can be freed on bail because, in the magistrate's view, he is unlikely to flee.+
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553321][Vince Lombardi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/nyregion/long-island-journal-706591.html][1991/02/17/0424173]]) The students consider Mr. Sporney *the Vince Lombardi of* /model-bridge building/.
21. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46868][I. M. Pei]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/24/news/sunday-dinner-4-for-american-cuisine-2-with-a-nautical-feel.html][1991/02/24/0425647]]) Alfred Portale, *the I. M. Pei of* /contemporary American cooking/, brings new meaning to the term haute cuisine with his skyscraper salads, towers of twirled pasta, high-rises of french fries and soaring desserts.+ (D)
22. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/25/world/gorbachev-gamble-brokering-peace.html][1991/02/25/0426013]]) Had his 11th-hour initiative worked, he might have become for another moment at least *the Gorbachev of* old, the master statesman and Nobel peace laureate drawing on good will, diplomacy and the vestigial prerogatives of a superpower to snatch peace from the fiery maw of war.+
23. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15114452][Sawan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/world/war-in-the-gulf-in-other-sections.html][1991/02/28/0426642]]) Today *the Villain of* Purim, Haman, Is Spelled Saddam+
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/05/world/moscow-journal-millionaire-s-bad-fortune-why-is-kgb-calling.html][1991/03/05/0427872]]) Mr. Tarasov reflects this history in wearing fine European suits and ties but hardly as *the Donald Trump of* /Moscow/.
25. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/12/opinion/a-shunned-man-of-peace.html][1991/03/12/0429589]]) But President Bush, who so warmly applauded President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines, has deferred to China by accusing *the Dalai Lama of* a "callous attitude" toward the people he has served.+
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7416][Margaret Thatcher]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/17/arts/tv-view-what-s-a-mother-to-do.html][1991/03/17/0430682]]) A front-runner for Ms. Vieira's "60 Minutes" job is Lesley Stahl, *the Margaret Thatcher of* /television news/.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/17/arts/classical-view-the-trade-boulez-has-yet-to-master.html][1991/03/17/0430749]]) The early compositions that established his credentials as *the Napoleon of* /the avant-garde/, like "Le Marteau Sans Maitre" and "Le Visage Nuptial," caught attention for their Serial rigidity and the novel severity of their sonorities.
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/magazine/personal-account-japanese-enlightenment.html][1991/03/24/0432181]]) My father, the Ford Motor Company's distributor for the entire colony, was known as "*the Henry Ford of* /Korea/."
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379664][Valentino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/magazine/on-language-hit-the-pound-sign.html][1991/03/24/0432396]]) Willard Espy, *the Valentino of* /word lovers/, has built on this thought in Harvard Magazine to suggest proditio, Latin for "betrayal," or double-cross.
30. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76918][Faust]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/arts/classical-view-due-homage-to-durable-opera-stars.html][1991/03/24/0432477]]) Although Mr. Kraus has been an engaging Faust for decades and will sing that role in tonight's anniversary concert, I correctly recalled that he was not *the Faust of* the 1963 performance at which Mr. Ghiaurov and Ms. Freni made their American debuts.+
31. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q991][Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/books/sick-at-heart.html][1991/03/24/0432553]]) As a monologuist, Wallace Shawn recalls both J. D. Salinger and Thomas Bernhard, but the greater influence appears to be *the Dostoyevsky of* "Notes From the Underground."+
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26702][Cardinal Richelieu]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/26/world/london-journal-a-veteran-of-the-great-tory-wars-exits-no-10.html][1991/03/26/0432850]]) He was *the Cardinal Richelieu of* /10 Downing Street/, a civil servant whose mastery of foreign affairs had made him so indispensable to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her successor, John Major, that in the end he become too notorious for his own good.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/27/garden/metropolitan-diary-950091.html][1991/03/27/0433213]]) A bagel's the Shakespeare, *the Tolstoy of* /flour/.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/theater/on-stage-and-off.html][1991/03/29/0433543]]) " Mr. Cantor, *the P. T. Barnum of* /the solo show/, is the producer of that current exemplar of the genre, "A Room of One's Own."
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36724][Attila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/30/sports/sports-of-the-times-harpoons-miss-tark-the-shark.html][1991/03/30/0433790]]) If the man is *the Attila the Hun of* /college sports/, how does he keep a job?
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473208][Roger Clemens]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/01/business/the-media-business-television-free-agents-put-pinch-on-networks.html][1991/04/01/0434255]]) "Cheers" seems to be *the Roger Clemens of* /prime-time television/, renewing its deal with NBC for top dollar.
37. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5686][Charles Dickens]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/07/books/where-s-the-rest-of-them.html][1991/04/07/0435668]]) Lesser plunges straight into a discussion called "Mothers," which includes *the Dickens of* "David Copperfield," the Lawrence of "Sons and Lovers," and both Peter Handke and Harold Brodkey in their stories about a mother's death.+
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9439][Queen Victoria]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/11/garden/sister-parish-reigning-arbiter-of-lovely-and-expensive-things.html][1991/04/11/0436543]]) Mrs. Henry Parish 2d, as she prefers to be known professionally, could be called *the Queen Victoria of* /fabric swatches/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79015][Clark Kent]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/theater/on-stage-and-off.html][1991/04/12/0436865]]) Although the juiciest version of the story has Mr. Viertel, *the Clark Kent of* /Broadway/, flattening Mr. Freydberg, that one is untrue.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/14/sports/sports-of-the-times-augusta-s-rewarding-golf-nut.html][1991/04/14/0437373]]) And as Augusta National's first black, Ron Townsend is a member under a microscope, *the Jackie Robinson of* /country-club golf/, a 15-handicap golfer with the corporate-honcho background that Augusta National prefers.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344793][George Burns]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/nyregion/seminars-examine-the-giggle-factor.html][1991/04/15/0437671]]) And it was a fivegone conclusion that Mr. Borge -- who is becoming *the George Burns of* /the keyboard/ -- would win a career achievement award at the convention.
42. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42786][Audrey Hepburn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/22/movies/25-years-later-honor-for-audrey-hepburn.html][1991/04/22/0439391]]) But *the Audrey Hepburn of* popular memory dates back to the 22 films she made between 1951 and 1966.+
43. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2799963][Ricardo Reis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/30/books/books-of-the-times-2-women-one-poet-and-the-ghost-of-another.html][1991/04/30/0442058]]) The conversations between *the Ricardo Reis of* the novel and Pessoa will have more meaning to students of Portuguese literature than to American readers.+
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6418571][Kitty Kelley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/04/world/end-hostage-deal-rumors-bush-asks.html][1991/05/04/0442861]]) Mr. Fitzwater also attacked Mr. Sick, saying, "Gary Sick is *the Kitty Kelley of* /foreign policy/."
45. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/10/movies/review-film-no-one-ever-called-her-shy.html][1991/05/10/0444418]]) Indeed, she brings to mind *the Bob Dylan of* the 1967 D. A. Penne baker film "Don't Look Back" in her ability to appear elusive, dangerous, and at all times absolutely in control of those around her.+
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467364][Leona Helmsley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/10/us/in-the-center-of-the-storm-at-stanford.html][1991/05/10/0444480]]) Cartoons depict him with his hand caught in a cookie jar, and a local columnist has compared him to other haughty hoarders, calling him *the Leona Helmsley of* /the San Francisco Bay area/.
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1328142][Stan Musial]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/12/books/the-stan-musial-of-essay-writing.html][1991/05/12/0444907]]) Mr. Gould is *the Stan Musial of* /essay writing/.
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/16/nyregion/bensonhurst-journal-poet-is-people-s-voice-even-in-a-foreign-tongue.html][1991/05/16/0445832]]) "Fantasy doesn't play a part," Mr. Ancona said, dwarfed by a statue of *the Madonna of* Perpetual Help, Castellammare's patron saint, which is perched in a shrine inside the social club.+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1328142][Stan Musial]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/19/books/best-sellers-may-19-1991.html][1991/05/19/0446604]]) A provocative, spirited collection -- his best so far -- by *the Stan Musial of* /essay writing/.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/20/us/austin-journal-ham-s-kissing-cousin-gets-a-hug.html][1991/05/20/0446849]]) The company even revels in the abuse heaped on Spam, calling it "*the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the food world/."
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/26/books/new-noteworthy.html][1991/05/26/0448081]]) In this history of the big top, John Culhane shows why P. T. Barnum was the Walt Disney and *the Steven Spielberg of* /his time/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315808][Neil Simon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/28/obituaries/tom-eyen-50-prolific-playwright-specializing-in-off-off-broadway.html][1991/05/28/0448667]]) A pioneer of the Off Off Broadway experimental theater movement in the 1960's, Mr. Eyen was called *the Neil Simon of* /Off Off Broadway/ at one point when he had four plays running simultaneously.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1076161][Dwight Gooden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/31/nyregion/harlem-doctor-charged-with-medicaid-fraud.html][1991/05/31/0449342]]) "This guy is *the Dwight Gooden of* /Medicaid billers/," James Durkin, the director of the state office that investigates Medicaid abuse, said at the time.
54. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1076161][Dwight Gooden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/31/nyregion/harlem-doctor-charged-with-medicaid-fraud.html][1991/05/31/0449342]]) An East Harlem doctor once described by a state investigator as "*the Dwight Gooden of* Medicaid billers," ordering far more prescriptions and services than any doctor in the program's 25-year history, was indicted today for Medicaid fraud.+
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6418571][Kitty Kelley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/02/books/l-give-us-a-break-ms-paglia-089891.html][1991/06/02/0449588]]) Who does Camille Paglia think she is, *the Kitty Kelley of* /academia/?
56. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314712][Barry Bonds]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/02/sports/baseball-bonds-s-personal-tale-of-lost-and-found.html][1991/06/02/0449831]]) Much to Pittsburgh's relief, though, *the Barry Bonds of* old, the hitter capable of carrying a team for a week, a month, a season, has found himself and his stroke.+
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311263][John Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/03/news/press-agent-confounds-the-skeptics.html][1991/06/03/0450111]]) "Someone described me as *the John Hughes of* /domestic tragedy/," he said.
58. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1328142][Stan Musial]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/09/books/summer-reading-1991-books-for-vacation-reading.html][1991/06/09/0451283]]) A provocative, spirited collection -- his best so far -- by *the Stan Musial of* /essay writing/.+ (D)
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721948][Nolan Ryan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/13/sports/track-and-field-running-faster-than-ever-at-age-38.html][1991/06/13/0452266]]) Thirtysomething joggers wondering whether they have any hopes of achieving a personal best might take encouragement from Francie Larrieu-Smith, *the Nolan Ryan of* /distance running/.
60. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/movies/film-view-lay-off-thelma-and-louise.html][1991/06/16/0453143]]) And in terms of antipathy toward men, Thelma and Louise can't hold a candle to *the Madonna of* "Truth or Dare."+
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550707][Eddie Rickenbacker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/20/opinion/essay-in-deep-sununu.html][1991/06/20/0453844]]) Not *the Eddie Rickenbacker of* /Air Sununu/.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271939][Chuck Yeager]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/23/magazine/champion-of-the-deep.html][1991/06/23/0454777]]) Hawkes is already at work on plans for the vehicle, which he hopes will allow Earle to become *the Chuck Yeager of* /the sea/.
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/23/arts/art-catching-up-with-the-high-priest-of-criticism.html][1991/06/23/0454948]]) If Mr. Greenberg can be described as *the Moses of* /the art world/, solemnly laying down the laws of painting, he is also its Ann Landers.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335762][Pat Riley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/24/sports/basketball-the-garden-s-new-leading-man-is-the-strong-and-silent-type.html][1991/06/24/0454960]]) Pitino had the talent, the style, the look to be *the Pat Riley of* /the East/.
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/25/news/patterns-186291.html][1991/06/25/0455153]]) Ralph Lauren is getting to be *the Walt Disney of* /fashion/.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340137][Norman Schwarzkopf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/26/garden/wine-talk-054391.html][1991/06/26/0455352]]) Leonard Humbrecht is *the Norman Schwarzkopf of* /Alsatian wine makers/: his name, as well as his wines, is on everyone's tongue and his picture is in every wine publication.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/29/sports/basketball-yugoslav-team-loses-player-to-upheaval.html][1991/06/29/0456236]]) "Politics is one thing; sports is another," Toni Kukoc, a Croat nicknamed *the Magic Johnson of* /Europe/, said in an interview.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285483][Mary Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/03/theater/terrence-mcnally-s-four-stars-talk-happily-of-his-lips-together.html][1991/07/03/0457223]]) "We call him *the Mary Martin of* /Off Broadway/," Ms. Kurtz says, referring to the actress who washed that man right out of her hair more than 40 years ago in "South Pacific."
69. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1385940][Mike Heath]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/08/sports/baseball-home-brutal-home-catchers-bar-the-door.html][1991/07/08/0458385]]) In a stirring collision with *the Mike Heath of* the Atlanta Braves, Larkin bounced the catcher from a game with a cut forehead and a stiff neck.+
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604][Frank Lloyd Wright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/11/garden/the-man-who-put-steam-in-your-iron.html][1991/07/11/0458936]]) Many consider him *the Frank Lloyd Wright of* /industrial design/, not surprising since both men were born and raised in Wisconsin and did perhaps their most important work in the Middle West.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55249][Ken Russell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/12/arts/review-dance-the-royal-ballet-recalls-its-past.html][1991/07/12/0459273]]) There are times when Mr. MacMillan can be mistaken for *the Ken Russell of* /British ballet/; like the film director, he would have us believe that true character can be revealed by the outrageous image.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/13/opinion/public-private-summer-reading-lists.html][1991/07/13/0459422]]) Tina Brown, who is *the P. T. Barnum of* /the magazine world/, obviously knows all this, even though she is originally from England, a country where journalism is not seasonal but schizoid, veering wildly between high dudgeon and women in thong swimsuits.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66107][Henry Kissinger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/14/business/making-a-difference-digital-diplomat.html][1991/07/14/0459865]]) Mr. Roach's interest goes beyond aspirations to become *the Henry Kissinger of* /the audio industry/.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/17/style/chronicle-973691.html][1991/07/17/0460751]]) JACK LANG, the French culture minister, described Mr. Davis as "*the Picasso of* /jazz/."
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34851][Elizabeth Taylor]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/21/movies/film-view-see-julia-act-even-better-see-julia-jilt.html][1991/07/21/0461868]]) But even if she turns out to be *the Liz Taylor of* /her day/, going through men like diamond necklaces, her audience is already lined up at theaters and newsstands and video stores.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220210][George Steinbrenner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/21/sports/modell-has-always-taken-risks-and-doesn-t-plan-to-stop.html][1991/07/21/0461989]]) In that history, Modell has been called *the George Steinbrenner of* /the Midwest/, another owner who meddles too much and hurts his team, and in the same breath he is praised as a man who provides the N.F.L., as it gears for the 90's and beyond, with continuity, a sense of history, intense loyalty and, judiciously, service.
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/21/arts/l-clement-greenberg-misunderstood-all-around-971591.html][1991/07/21/0461993]]) Phrases like "high priest" and "*the Moses of* /the art world/" set the tone.
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2808][Elton John]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/29/arts/review-music-tradition-meets-the-future-in-eros-ramazzotti-s-pop.html][1991/07/29/0463672]]) His nasal intonation and accentuated phrases strongly recalled *the Elton John of* the early 70's, but omitting Mr. John's melismatic gospel-style embellishments.+
79. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/01/sports/golf-fore-nicklaus-beware-of-teen-ager.html][1991/08/01/0464227]]) "I want to become *the Michael Jordan of* /golf/," said Woods, who prefers being called Tiger to Eldrick.+ (D)
80. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/01/sports/golf-fore-nicklaus-beware-of-teen-ager.html][1991/08/01/0464228]]) "I want to become *the Michael Jordan of* /golf/," said Woods, who prefers being called Tiger to Eldrick.+ (D)
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D61F3EF932A3575BC0A967958260][1991/08/01/0464297]]) "I want to become *the Michael Jordan of* /golf/," said Woods, who prefers being called Tiger to Eldrick.
82. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46868][I. M. Pei]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/news/sunday-dinner-salads-with-an-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-touch.html][1991/08/04/0464830]]) Alfred Portale, *the I. M. Pei of* /contemporary American cooking/, brings new meaning to the term haute cuisine with his skyscraper salads, towers of twirled pasta, high-rises of french fries and soaring desserts.+ (D)
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/weekinreview/headliners-watching-the-birdie.html][1991/08/04/0465076]]) "I want to be *the Michael Jordan of* /golf/," said Mr. Woods after his victory on Sunday.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q913][Socrates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/09/sports/robert-lipsyte-give-me-that-old-time-religion.html][1991/08/09/0465813]]) Saving the image of the game -- he fired Dave Pallone basically for being gay -- was his job, but as a man who saw himself as *the Socrates of* /sport/, that public-relations function would have eventually rubbed up against his higher conceits.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/news/camera.html][1991/08/11/0466280]]) Soon, Americans could immediately recognize an Eisenstaedt picture, and several generations of photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, tried to emulate their hero, *the Babe Ruth of* /35-millimeter photography/.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/sports/sports-of-the-times-rooting-to-stay-clean.html][1991/08/11/0466343]]) On a recent evening on the Upper West Side, Earl Manigault recalled the days when he was *the Michael Jordan of* /Harlem/, a man who jumped so high he once believed he could take off after a running start and end up sitting on the rim.
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550302][Nicolas de Largillière]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/arts/art-view-time-rescues-a-collector-s-reputation.html][1991/08/11/0466533]]) Once again, there are paintings that would be welcome in any national gallery -- the Guido Reni "David and Abigail," the Strozzi "Martyrdom of St. Justina," the Salvator Rosa "Baptism of the Eunuch," the tiny "Magdalen in a Landscape" by Willem van Mieris, the "St. Philip" by Georges de la Tour, and *the Nicolas de Largilliere of* himself in his studio, complete with his engraver and one of his patrons.+
88. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322][Christopher Columbus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/magazine/discovering-columbus.html][1991/08/11/0466540]]) Winsor's withering assault on *the Columbus of* legend was the exception in the late 19th century, and not taken kindly by those who held to the prevailing image.+
89. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5388635][Erik Howard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/13/sports/football-self-preservation-and-money-kept-howard-out-but-now-he-s-back.html][1991/08/13/0466736]]) He looked like *the Erik Howard of* old, except that his ponytail was a little longer and his Fu Manchu moustache was gone.+
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q375600][Don Nelson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/14/sports/basketball-agent-makes-capital-for-an-elite-clientele.html][1991/08/14/0466892]]) "I call him *the Don Nelson of* /agents/," said longtime client John Lucas, who has now retired.
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/18/magazine/the-story-of-a-street-person.html][1991/08/18/0467564]]) He details the debates in many Christian denominations over *the Jesus of* history versus the Christ of faith; the ethical problems raised for Christians by contemporary culture; debates over whether to demythologize the Bible or interpret it literally; and the intellectual conundrum posed by matching a good God with an often evil world, known in theological terms as theodicy.+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44176][Hulk Hogan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/18/arts/tv-view-by-any-name-roseanne-is-roseanne-is-roseanne.html][1991/08/18/0467633]]) In The National Review, on the other hand, Jim Atkinson, referring to the comedienne as "*the Hulk Hogan of* /feminism/," perceives her as "a cunning marketeer who has figured out how to parlay a form of vulgar reverse sexism into stardom."
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q375268][Frank Stella]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/18/nyregion/art-early-and-late-works-by-19-artists-at-the-whitney-in-stamford.html][1991/08/18/0467814]]) There is *the Frank Stella of* "Gran Cairo," a 1962 square filled with different colored bands that owes something to Josef Albers; then there is the Frank Stella of "Silverstone," a baroque extravaganza in aluminum and fiberglass dabbed expressionistically with color (1981).+
94. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q375268][Frank Stella]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/18/nyregion/art-early-and-late-works-by-19-artists-at-the-whitney-in-stamford.html][1991/08/18/0467814]]) There is the Frank Stella of "Gran Cairo," a 1962 square filled with different colored bands that owes something to Josef Albers; then there is *the Frank Stella of* "Silverstone," a baroque extravaganza in aluminum and fiberglass dabbed expressionistically with color (1981).+
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/20/arts/review-music-is-mendelssohn-a-heavyweight-festival-puts-him-on-the-scales.html][1991/08/20/0468225]]) Here was one of the great musical prodigies, a man who by the age of 18 had composed major works for the chamber and orchestral repertory, who was responsible for the revival of interest in Bach in the 19th century, who was the acknowledged leader of German musical life before his death at 38 in 1847, a composer Schumann called *the Mozart of* /the 19th century/.
96. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472547][David Souter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/22/nyregion/cuomo-s-health-nominee-is-advised-to-kepp-silent.html][1991/08/22/0468451]]) Dr. Mark R. Chassin, the California physician nominated to be New York State's next health commissioner, has emerged as *the David Souter of* gubernatorial appointees, a man with little public record on major health issues and little freedom to stake out his positions.+
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472547][David Souter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/22/nyregion/news-summary-635791.html][1991/08/22/0468513]]) The nominee for health chief of New York State, Dr. Mark Chassin, is emerging as *the David Souter of* /gubernatorial appointees/, a man with little public record on major health issues and little freedom to stake out his positions.
98. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18160990][Novelist]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/27/arts/niven-busch-88-the-novelist-of-duel-in-the-sun.html][1991/08/27/0469677]]) Niven Busch, 88, *the Novelist of* 'Duel in the Sun'+
99. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182450][George C. Scott]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/05/theater/george-c-scott-takes-on-a-play-about-death.html][1991/09/05/0471353]]) Has age mellowed *the George C. Scott of* the drunken rages, fistfights and five broken noses?+
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2586583][Henny Youngman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/08/nyregion/long-island-journal-354891.html][1991/09/08/0472147]]) Gross is *the Henny Youngman of* /the Acropolis/.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/09/world/viedma-journal-governor-meets-payroll-by-plundering-the-bank.html][1991/09/09/0472458]]) He is called *the Robin Hood of* /Patagonia/.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/magazine/l-mr-software-874891.html][1991/09/15/0474006]]) Gates is *the Henry Ford of* /our generation/, and if you don't like it, go build a Honda.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1265202][Stepin Fetchit]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/22/movies/l-asian-stereotypes-charlie-chan-was-no-uncle-tom-004091.html][1991/09/22/0475339]]) As a Caucasian who has seen just about every Charlie Chan movie there is, I must respond to the article by Gish Jen about stereotypes that perpetuate Charlie Chan as *the Stepin Fetchit of* /Orientals/  [ "Challenging the Asian Illusion," Aug. 11 ] .
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/24/science/as-biosphere-is-sealed-its-patron-reflects-on-life.html][1991/09/24/0476016]]) What about news reports that Biosphere 2 is basically a survivalist cult built around the magnetic personality of John Allen, whom The Village Voice characterized as "much more the Jim Jones than *the Johnny Appleseed of* /the ecology movement/?"
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59215][Robert Redford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/27/theater/on-stage-and-off.html][1991/09/27/0476549]]) Macaulay Culkin, the 10-year-old star of "Home Alone" and *the Robert Redford of* /the kindergarten set/, can be seen in the flesh at Ensemble Studio Theater, 549 West 52d Street, on Oct. 9 and 10 for the opening of its annual Octoberfest.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5582][Vincent van Gogh]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/29/travel/comics-characters-beloved-by-brussels.html][1991/09/29/0476983]]) A 1929 first edition of "Tintin au Pays des Soviets" recently sold for about $3,450 at current exchange rates, making Herge what Mr. Crochelet termed "*the Van Gogh of* /the B.D./"
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35171][Grover Cleveland]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/30/business/the-media-business-advertising-addenda-two-celebrities-in-campaigns.html][1991/09/30/0477414]]) Ms. Tandy is the 60th person to participate in the campaign, said Peter Rogers, president and creative director, if Claudette Colbert, *the Grover Cleveland of* /Blackglama/, is counted twice for separate ads in 1971 and 1978.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11930][Kevin Costner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/06/arts/recordings-view-the-kevin-costner-of-country-music.html][1991/10/06/0478532]]) Part of the reason for Mr. Brooks's success is marketing: with his meat-and-potatoes image, goony grin and virtuous all-American values, he is *the Kevin Costner of* /country/.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217557][Joyce Carol Oates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/06/arts/recordings-view-now-a-prince-among-men.html][1991/10/06/0478549]]) He became *the Joyce Carol Oates of* /pop/, incredibly prolific with variable quality.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/06/weekinreview/the-nation-aids-battle-reverting-to-us-against-them.html][1991/10/06/0478726]]) Thomas B. Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, described Ms. Bergalis as "*the Willie Horton of* /the AIDS crisis/."
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q410][Carl Sagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/09/garden/historic-fulton-market-s-king-of-facts-about-fish.html][1991/10/09/0479337]]) One could call him *the Carl Sagan of* /the deep/.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/14/us/the-thomas-nomination-with-each-round-of-testimony-the-mood-at-the-hearing-sways.html][1991/10/14/0480435]]) They all called her aloof; yet J.C. Alvarez, a former aide to Senator John Danforth and staffer at the E.E.O.C., suggested that she might want to turn her experience before the Senate into a book or movie, saying she wanted to be "*the Rosa Parks of* /sexual harassment/."
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935][Isaac Newton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/17/world/european-scientists-win-physics-and-chemistry-nobel-prizes.html][1991/10/17/0481046]]) Some of the judges on the Nobel committee described Dr. de Gennes as "*the Isaac Newton of* /our time/" because of his success in applying mathematics to generalized explanations of many different phenomena.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1166727][Darryl Strawberry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/20/business/compliance-officers-day-in-the-sun.html][1991/10/20/0481582]]) In April 1989, Mr. Cohen became *the Darryl Strawberry of* /the compliance set/.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34453][Boris Yeltsin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/21/us/louisiana-puts-ex-klan-leader-in-runoff-race.html][1991/10/21/0481993]]) "One person described me as *the Boris Yeltsin of* /American politics/," he said.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4859415][Barbara Woodhouse]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/24/garden/the-lowdown-on-curtains-from-lady-velcro-herself.html][1991/10/24/0482422]]) But Lady Caroline Wrey, otherwise known as Lady Velcro, *the Barbara Woodhouse of* /windows/, has a foolproof barometer.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33977][Jules Verne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/29/opinion/topics-of-the-times-a-stargazer-s-playground.html][1991/10/29/0483487]]) Gene Roddenberry, the creator and producer of "Star Trek," was *the Jules Verne of* /his time/.
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316][Saddam Hussein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/29/nyregion/wachtler-v-cuomo-duel-of-ex-friends.html][1991/10/29/0483574]]) "I received a letter the other day which said the Governor has tried to make me *the Saddam Hussein of* /New York State/," said the Chief Judge, occasionally peeking through the Venetian blinds up the hill at the State Capitol, where the Governor sits.
119. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q379664][Valentino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/08/movies/critic-s-notebook-sex-icon-once-oddity-now.html][1991/11/08/0485464]]) "Something has happened to *the Valentino of* 'The Sheik' and 'Blood and Sand,' " the movie magazine Photoplay complained in 1924.+
120. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21470300][Edward Darley Boit]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/08/arts/review-art-at-ibm-gallery-a-double-headed-exhibition.html][1991/11/08/0485521]]) Or *the Edward Darley Boit of* the Place de l'Opera in 1883?+
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12876261][Diogenes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/10/nyregion/campus-life-michigan-a-philosopher-challenges-campus-crowds.html][1991/11/10/0485880]]) Terry Purvis-Smith, a visiting lecturer in composition, was attracted to Mr. Burke by a student essay on *the Diogenes of* /the Diag/.
122. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380433][Al Sharpton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/10/books/a-gentle-young-man-who-would-be-16-forever.html][1991/11/10/0485911]]) But *the Al Sharpton of* "For the Color of His Skin" is a more sympathetic figure than the Al Sharpton of the daily press.+
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380433][Al Sharpton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/10/books/a-gentle-young-man-who-would-be-16-forever.html][1991/11/10/0485911]]) But the Al Sharpton of "For the Color of His Skin" is a more sympathetic figure than *the Al Sharpton of* the daily press.+
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34969][Benjamin Franklin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/10/books/children-s-books-one-spectacle-after-another.html][1991/11/10/0485953]]) Olympic athletes, for instance, hardly ever wear glasses sprinting across the finish line, and neither do most rock stars when performing, excepting of course *the Ben Franklin of* /rock/, Elton John.
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271884][Norman Rockwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/12/news/umbrellas-closing-leaves-christo-with-empty-palette.html][1991/11/12/0486441]]) This will not come as a blow to many art critics and Conceptual Artists, who have long regarded Christo as *the Norman Rockwell of* /Conceptual Art/, and his wrapping projects as a one-note exercise.
126. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2013721][David Dukes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/13/opinion/public-private-same-old-new-duke.html][1991/11/13/0486583]]) The most influential public figures in this country over the last month have all three been black, as though someone was trying to send a cosmic message to *the David Dukes of* the world, to counter them with Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill and Magic Johnson.+
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310819][Johnny Carson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/13/world/political-wing-of-ira-is-barred-from-dublin-municipal-building.html][1991/11/13/0486648]]) was given prominence on national television by two of the best known figures in the country, former Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald and Gay Byrne, *the Johnny Carson of* /Ireland/.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908933][Donna Summer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/13/arts/the-pop-life-968891.html][1991/11/13/0486749]]) Aster Aweke, once known as *the Donna Summer of* /Ethiopia/, has recently released a new record, "Kabu" (Columbia), and it features her sinuous singing, backed by a full funky band, along with a horn section.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9439][Queen Victoria]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/17/us/voter-poll-shows-big-edwards-lead-in-louisiana-race.html][1991/11/17/0487475]]) He was introduced by the moderator at one candidates' forum as "*the Queen Victoria of* /Louisiana politics/" because he has been such a domineering figure for so long.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3809254][John Fairchild]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/17/magazine/old-money-new-needs.html][1991/11/17/0487607]]) Not until 1888 did Ward McAllister -- *the John Fairchild of* /his day/ -- designate New York's "400," those who would be at ease, and not make others ill at ease, in the ballroom of Mrs. William B. Astor Jr., then the city's social doyenne.
131. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3246427][Bobby Bonilla]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/20/sports/on-baseball-bonilla-barnstorming-in-search-of-best-deal.html][1991/11/20/0488120]]) So given that knowledge, what would Garvey do if he found himself at playing prime again, *the Bobby Bonilla of* 1991 instead of 1982?+
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59215][Robert Redford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/20/us/on-the-past-and-future-of-a-politician-was-duke-made-for-tv-or-made-by-it.html][1991/11/20/0488274]]) "He has become *the Robert Redford of* /hate/."
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/23/nyregion/about-new-york-folks-take-my-unemployment-check-please.html][1991/11/23/0488925]]) "I was *the Picasso of* /cardboard/," he said to scattered applause.
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104000][Lauren Bacall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/24/nyregion/dining-out-a-touch-of-class-at-the-head-of-the-class.html][1991/11/24/0489012]]) France's Domaine Moussiere Sancerre of 1990 is described as "*the Lauren Bacall of* /sancerres/ -- sultry, smoky, sophisticated," and Hidden Cellars Sauvignon Blanc of 1989 as "tangos on your taste buds with lemony melon flavors."
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184556][Sergei Bubka]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/28/opinion/l-track-greats-competed-at-168th-street-armory-469291.html][1991/11/28/0490182]]) Charles Hoff, *the Sergei Bubka of* /his day/, achieved the ninth of his 11 world indoor pole-vault records in 1926 at the armory on 168th Street.
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/weekinreview/ideas-trends-lessons-for-living-from-the-lapsed-town-of-mayberry.html][1991/12/01/0490651]]) "Andy's very wise, he's the Solomon, *the Abe Lincoln of* /Mayberry/.
137. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1328142][Stan Musial]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/01/books/notable-books-of-the-year-1991.html][1991/12/01/0490844]]) A provocative, spirited collection -- his best so far -- by *the Stan Musial of* /essay writing/.+ (D)
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/02/us/washington-at-work-lobbyist-on-civil-rights-wins-despite-hostility.html][1991/12/02/0491092]]) He's *the Babe Ruth of* /civil rights lobbyists/."
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9200][Paul]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/06/news/in-smith-case-a-firm-judge-known-for-fairness.html][1991/12/06/0491860]]) "If you are a lawyer in front of her and have crossed your t's and move along with your case, you don't usually have any trouble," said Paul Sullivan, a lawyer here who also attends *the St. Paul of* the Cross Roman Catholic Church with Judge Lupo.+
140. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9200][Paul]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/06/news/in-smith-case-a-firm-judge-known-for-fairness.html][1991/12/06/0491863]]) "If you are a lawyer in front of her and have crossed your t's and move along with your case, you don't usually have any trouble," said Paul Sullivan, a lawyer here who also attends *the St. Paul of* the Cross Roman Catholic Church with Judge Lupo.+
141. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9200][Paul]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/06/news/in-smith-case-a-firm-judge-known-for-fairness.html][1991/12/06/0491864]]) "If you are a lawyer in front of her and have crossed your t's and move along with your case, you don't usually have any trouble," said Paul Sullivan, a lawyer here who also attends *the St. Paul of* the Cross Roman Catholic Church with Judge Lupo.+
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126462][Thomas Paine]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/08/business/technology-two-men-two-visions-of-one-computer-world-indivisible.html][1991/12/08/0492265]]) Ted Nelson is an outspoken author and visionary described as everything from "*the Thomas Paine of* /the personal computer revolution/" to a "madman extraordinaire."
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/08/movies/bugsy-in-love-on-stage-and-off.html][1991/12/08/0492282]]) She's *the Michael Jordan of* /actresses/.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3051017][Ernie Banks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/09/sports/sports-of-the-times-what-to-do-until-the-world-cup-comes-around.html][1991/12/09/0492566]]) Sticking his hand in a glass bowl, Abedi Pele drew out the name of his own national team, Ghana, for an elimination round with seasoned Algeria and up-and-coming Uganda, making it possible for a star like Abedi Pele to become *the Ernie Banks of* /Africa/, never reaching the championship round in his sport.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/13/opinion/no-more-willie-hortons.html][1991/12/13/0493724]]) If the Governor decides to run, the Rochester serial murderer could become *the Willie Horton of* /1992/.
146. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/15/world/fall-gorbachev-special-report-russian-swept-aside-forces-he-released.html][1991/12/15/0494227]]) Immediately after the coup, Mr. Gorbachev unleashed a quick torrent of measures that seemed to conjure up *the Gorbachev of* the summer past.+
147. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/15/world/fall-gorbachev-special-report-russian-swept-aside-forces-he-released.html][1991/12/15/0494227]]) In this post-coup period, he even had a last hurrah on the international stage like *the Gorbachev of* old, when he matched President Bush's sweeping cuts of tactical weapons in early October.+
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2923786][Brandon Tartikoff]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/17/sports/baseball-tv-sports-as-the-mets-turn-plot-heats-up.html][1991/12/17/0494773]]) So in came the new executive producer, Al Harazin, trying to be *the Brandon Tartikoff of* /baseball/, turning around his series as Tartikoff overhauled NBC's prime-time schedule.
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192707][Charles Barkley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/18/sports/football-dolphins-aren-t-exactly-shy-about-expressing-confidence.html][1991/12/18/0494852]]) He's kind of like *the Charles Barkley of* /the Dolphins/.
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/23/world/quiche-journal-flocking-to-new-shepherds-in-catholic-guatemala.html][1991/12/23/0495945]]) Peering Past Faith to Glimpse *the Jesus of* History+
151. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/23/us/competing-scholars-share-backgrounds-and-views.html][1991/12/23/0495960]]) Both authors say scholarly inquiry into the historical Jesus can never replace *the Jesus of* the church's belief.+
152. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/23/us/competing-scholars-share-backgrounds-and-views.html][1991/12/23/0495960]]) Father Meier also said that *the Jesus of* Mr. Mitchell's book was based on "no scientific objective criteria" but on "whatever agrees with our notion of what true religion is."+
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126462][Thomas Paine]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/23/style/chronicle-994391.html][1991/12/23/0495993]]) MARTIN GARBUS, a Manhattan lawyer, said he feels like *the Thomas Paine of* /Prague/.
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/30/business/the-year-in-business-1991-john-f-akers-a-costly-revamping-at-ibm.html][1991/12/30/0497237]]) Will John F. Akers be remembered as *the Mikhail Gorbachev of* /I.B.M./?

** 1992
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41871][Paul Newman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/09/theater/russian-actor-tells-of-chaotic-freedom-in-russian-theater.html][1992/01/09/0499117]]) Although some in New York's Russian community have dubbed Mr. Solomin *the Paul Newman of* /Russia/, the bearded, 6-foot-tall, hazel-eyed performer bears more of a resemblance in person to the actor Robert Shaw, projecting the same on-stage gravitas and rugged introspection.
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3355][Amelia Earhart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/17/news/at-the-bar.html][1992/01/17/0500887]]) In New York State, it seems, *the Amelia Earhart of* /women's courtroom dress/ was one Carolyn Peck of Syracuse.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/24/sports/sports-of-the-times-some-teams-succeed-on-turmoil.html][1992/01/24/0502719]]) The Bills are not necessarily in trouble in Sunday's Super Bowl just because Thomas wants to be known as *the Michael Jordan of* /his team/, leaving the implication that Jim Kelly, the quarterback, is merely Scottie Pippen.
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315487][Bugsy Siegel]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDF1F3CF935A15752C0A964958260][1992/01/26/0503425]]) Then there's Jerry Tarkanian, the bald, towel-chewing coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas whose vision of populating the desert with jump-shooting urban nomads has made him, to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, *the Bugsy Siegel of* /basketball/.+ (D)
5. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315487][Bugsy Siegel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/sports/backtalk-get-ready-for-a-less-than-super-morning-after.html][1992/01/26/0503489]]) Then there's Jerry Tarkanian, the bald, towel-chewing coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas whose vision of populating the desert with jump-shooting urban nomads has made him, to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, *the Bugsy Siegel of* /basketball/.+ (D)
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315487][Bugsy Siegel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/26/sports/backtalk-get-ready-for-a-less-than-super-morning-after.html][1992/01/26/0503490]]) Then there's Jerry Tarkanian, the bald, towel-chewing coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas whose vision of populating the desert with jump-shooting urban nomads has made him, to the National Collegiate Athletic Association, *the Bugsy Siegel of* /basketball/.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9960][Ronald Reagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/27/world/free-for-all-seen-in-philippine-vote.html][1992/01/27/0503557]]) The two candidates who top voter opinion surveys -- Senator Joseph Estrada, a grade B movie star who is sometimes described as *the Ronald Reagan of* /the Philippines/, and Miriam Defensor Santiago, a former immigration commissioner who is portraying herself as a dogged corruption fighter -- are being written off because they lack the backing of a large political machine.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44176][Hulk Hogan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/30/nyregion/fishing-for-tourists-by-the-musconetcong.html][1992/01/30/0504397]]) In the Delaware watershed, they say, the chinook salmon, a carpetbagger from the Pacific Northwest, would be *the Hulk Hogan of* /sport fish/, pursued with little finesse by anglers whose only goal is to land the biggest fish in the shortest time.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/01/opinion/observer-and-go-to-sleep.html][1992/02/01/0504790]]) (All right, kiddies: Dr. Huer was the scientific genius with the lightbulb-shaped head without whom Buck Rogers would surely have lost outer space to dark-eyed Killer Kane, who was sort of *the Willie Horton of* /the 25th century/.)
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q637200][Henry Higgins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/09/movies/film-tongues-on-wry-lend-special-flavor-to-movies.html][1992/02/09/0506507]]) Mr. Easton, who likes to think of himself as *the Henry Higgins of* /Hollywood/ -- he is even incorporated as such: "The Henry Higgins of Hollywood Inc." -- is called upon several times a day to be just that.
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23505][George H. W. Bush]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/14/us/1992-campaign-white-house-memo-trick-for-bush-run-against-bush-1980.html][1992/02/14/0507552]]) But the first part of the strategy may prove more challenging, in part because conservative Republicans count Mr. Bush as a moderate apostate and in part because he has, in effect, begun a campaign against *the George Bush of* 1980.+
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131237][Carl Lewis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/15/sports/albertville-blair-strikes-gold-again-to-glide-to-us-history.html][1992/02/15/0507721]]) But even if she did not, she has at least established herself as *the Carl Lewis of* /her sport/, its dominant sprinter.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315808][Neil Simon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/16/nyregion/long-island-journal-121092.html][1992/02/16/0507808]]) The association asked Fred Block, *the Neil Simon of* /Suffolk law/, to write a show, and, voila, the Island's first legal satirical revue was born.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q340137][Norman Schwarzkopf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/23/world/a-hero-who-forced-neapolitans-to-pay-bills.html][1992/02/23/0509435]]) When people here dubbed Eduardo Ieno *the Norman Schwarzkopf of* /Naples/, it was because, by this city's standards, he had achieved something as decisive, bold and gutsy as the American general did in Kuwait: He forced Neapolitans to pay their water bills.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310586][Jesse Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/26/us/the-1992-campaign-republicans-marching-through-georgia-guns-firing.html][1992/02/26/0509904]]) "In some ways, he is sort of *the Jesse Jackson of* /the right/," said Mr. Gingrich of Mr. Buchanan in an interview.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680077][Diamond Jim Brady]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/26/garden/de-gustibus-celebrating-rossini-s-birthday-and-his-truly-operatic-tastes.html][1992/02/26/0510044]]) He was *the Diamond Jim Brady of* /his day/, with more than a touch of the rock star thrown in, as he was pursued by mobs of adoring fans in the street.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54168][J. P. Morgan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/27/business/a-new-momentum-at-mellon.html][1992/02/27/0510163]]) Meanwhile, lending to blue-chip companies, which earned Mellon the sobriquet "*the J. P. Morgan of* /the Alleghenies/," has fallen slightly since 1986, to about 46 percent of assets from 50 percent.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36105][Charles Bronson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/29/theater/review-theater-a-loved-wife-her-illness-and-her-last-gift-a-tear.html][1992/02/29/0510431]]) And even his wife becomes "*the Charles Bronson of* /organic gardening/."
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3894725][Paperboy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/01/nyregion/men-and-women-replacing-the-paperboy-of-tradition.html][1992/03/01/0510872]]) Men and Women Replacing *the Paperboy of* Tradition+
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23505][George H. W. Bush]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/opinion/public-private-a-far-better-thing.html][1992/03/08/0512675]]) In that sense you are *the George Bush of* /New York City/, and what's going on here is not unlike what's going on in the Presidential races.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887520][Harold Stassen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/opinion/public-private-a-far-better-thing.html][1992/03/08/0512675]]) And there's *the Harold Stassen of* /New York/, Herman Badillo, and the Paul Tsongas of New York, Richard Ravitch.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283884][Paul Tsongas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/opinion/public-private-a-far-better-thing.html][1992/03/08/0512675]]) And there's the Harold Stassen of New York, Herman Badillo, and *the Paul Tsongas of* /New York/, Richard Ravitch.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307][Galileo Galilei]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/09/nyregion/metro-matters-spirit-of-newburgh-past-haunts-political-present.html][1992/03/09/0512782]]) Senator Daniel P. Moynihan is no defender of Mr. Mitchell as *the Galileo of* /welfare reform/.
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1336253][Phil Donahue]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/14/business/fading-red-line-special-report-new-hope-inner-cities-banks-offering-mortgages.html][1992/03/14/0514005]]) John V. Killen, an executive at Fidelity Bank, thinks of himself as *the Phil Donahue of* /the fair/.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2865273][Arthur Murray]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/15/nyregion/long-island-journal-244692.html][1992/03/15/0514099]]) When it became evident that Ms. Ryan's jig had an extra jive, she was sent to a dance teacher, Donny Golden of Mineola, *the Arthur Murray of* /Irish jigging/.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5809][Che Guevara]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/20/us/1992-campaign-primaries-tsongas-abandons-campaign-leaving-clinton-clear-path.html][1992/03/20/0515459]]) "Jerry Brown is going to be extremely dangerous," Mr. Hart said, "because in essence he's going to be *the Che Guevara of* /the 1992 Presidential election/.
27. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296641][Paul Hogan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/22/movies/film-new-insights-from-the-outback.html][1992/03/22/0516109]]) At film school, she met her husband, Paul J. Hogan, also a writer-director (and no relation to *the Paul Hogan of* Crocodile Dundee fame).+
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/24/sports/sports-of-the-times-can-soccer-grow-grass-under-foot.html][1992/03/24/0516396]]) Now it happens that generous, kindly and peaceful soccer may be *the Johnny Appleseed of* /sports/, carrying real grass to domes.
29. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3787706][Hush]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/26/us/capitol-hill-memo-after-scandals-the-hush-of-paranoia.html][1992/03/26/0516791]]) Capitol Hill Memo; After Scandals, *the Hush of* Paranoia+
30. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152451][Jerry Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/us/1992-campaign-candidate-s-record-brown-firm-what-he-believes-but-what-he.html][1992/03/30/0517693]]) The Jerry Brown running for President in 1992 is at odds on crucial issues and campaign themes with the Jerry Brown who ran for President in 1976, the Jerry Brown who tried again in 1980 and even *the Jerry Brown of* just a year ago.+
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/opinion/l-the-slow-motion-suicide-of-the-world-s-once-greatest-city-051492.html][1992/03/30/0517697]]) You editorialize March 3 that I am turning New York into *the Willie Horton of* /1992/ by suggesting that "New York and other large cities are responsible for their own dire fiscal straits because they are indifferent to rapacious unions."
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485508][Charles Manson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/02/us/noriega-lawyer-derides-us-case-in-closing.html][1992/04/02/0518518]]) Mr. Rubino described Mr. Lehder, who is serving a term of life plus 135 years in a Federal prison, as "*the Charles Manson of* /this case/," and suggested that his history of drug use made him an unreliable witness.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/05/books/in-short-baseball-679592.html][1992/04/05/0519231]]) For some reason he has rejected the gold (there is nothing, for example, from Roger Kahn, *the Proust of* /the Brooklyn Dodgers/) for the dross -- including selections by Steve Howe about his drug problems and by Steve Garvey about his marital problems, as well as an interminable piece by Tommy Lasorda, which reflects the manager's amiable logorrhea.
34. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170510][Ian McKellen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/05/magazine/sympathy-for-the-devil.html][1992/04/05/0519244]]) "I despise *the Ian McKellen of* the last 49 years," he has been quoted as saying many times since he came out.+
35. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/11/us/beliefs-961592.html][1992/04/11/0520534]]) Since the 18th century this belief has exposed Christianity to the work of historians who set out to demonstrate that *the Jesus of* history was not the Christ of the great Christian creeds.+
36. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/11/us/beliefs-961592.html][1992/04/11/0520534]]) They do not suggest, as many scholarly predecessors have done, that the historians' portraits of Jesus should replace *the Jesus of* the creeds or churches.+
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712928][Cameron Mackintosh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/12/theater/theater-free-market-capitalism-applied-to-the-stage.html][1992/04/12/0520605]]) "I want to be *the Cameron Mackintosh of* /Poland/," Mr. Kubiak said of the producer of "Miss Saigon" and other highly profitable musicals.
38. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7902373][Utah Jazz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/15/sports/college-basketball-st-john-s-open-minded-on-new-coach.html][1992/04/15/0521599]]) James F. Kiernan, a senior vice president, will include Jack Kaiser, vice president for athletics; John Warren, a former St. John's star, and Frank Layden, president of *the Utah Jazz of* the National Basketball Association.+
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/16/garden/italian-furniture-goes-all-cuddly.html][1992/04/16/0521792]]) But the plain kitchen hutch was *the Cinderella of* /the show/.
40. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974567][Claude Lemieux]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/22/sports/hockey-new-jersey-takes-charge-by-being-more-aggressive.html][1992/04/22/0523288]]) "He was like *the Claude Lemieux of* old," McVie said of Lemieux's days with the Canadiens in 1986, when Montreal captured the Stanley Cup.+
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/26/magazine/a-pilgrim-s-progress.html][1992/04/26/0523892]]) To her fans, Annie Dillard is an avatar, or at the very least, as Bernays puts it, "*the Mother Teresa of* /her particular genre/."
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271939][Chuck Yeager]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/07/sports/sports-of-the-times-hawk-flew-long-before-jordan-did.html][1992/05/07/0526474]]) But if Jordan is *the Chuck Yeager of* /basketball/, Julius Erving was its Charles Lindbergh and Connie Hawkins was its Wright Brothers.
43. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q252147][Mark Lenzi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/09/sports/results-plus-604192.html][1992/05/09/0527113]]) (AP) DIVING  Future Olympians Win  Two divers honing their skills for the 3-meter competition at the Olympic Games this summer placed one-two in the 1-meter final of the Alamo International yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. China's Li Deliang, a bronze medalist in the 3-meter in the 1988 Olympics, totaled 361.56 points off the 1-meter board and edged *the Mark Lenzi of* Fredericksburg, Va., by nine-one-hundredths of a point.+
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80048][Al Capone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/10/books/crime-377892.html][1992/05/10/0527307]]) field agent was not your run-of-the-mill public servant, but a rabid zealot ("*the Al Capone of* /the auditors/"), Jill could use a traffic cop to sort out all the suspects eager to dance on the dead man's grave.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/11/nyregion/metro-matters-as-relief-rolls-grew-where-was-gop-in-office.html][1992/05/11/0527805]]) If welfare emerges as *the Willie Horton of* /1992/, Mr. Cuomo may have wound up on the wrong side of it in a national campaign, even though he sought to curb the soaring costs of social spending programs.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/13/sports/baseball-yankees-stop-losing-on-a-deft-perez-start.html][1992/05/13/0528150]]) So Hall, who had earlier called himself *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the American League/ because he was omitted from the All-Star ballot, went searching for a little respect.
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73136][Stanley Kramer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/14/theater/a-quarter-century-as-a-theater-person-in-a-movie-town.html][1992/05/14/0528388]]) "Gordon is *the Stanley Kramer of* /theater producers/," said Steven Mikulan, the theater editor of The L.A. Weekly, referring to the film maker best known for his liberal movies of the 1950's and 60's.
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855][Joseph Stalin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/14/books/books-of-the-times-the-facts-and-feelings-from-mary-mccarthy.html][1992/05/14/0528447]]) As Elizabeth Hardwick puts it in her useful foreword, these were people who supported Leon Trotsky "in opposition to *the Stalin of* the Moscow trials, beginning in 1936, which ended in the execution of most of the original Bolsheviks and the terror that followed,"+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131545][Harry Houdini]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/14/nyregion/republicans-pressed-on-plans-for-cuts.html][1992/05/14/0528618]]) "Over the past two years, Governor Florio has become *the Harry Houdini of* /state government/," he said, "inventing one trick after another to disguise massive overspending.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/17/books/unscrambling-africa.html][1992/05/17/0529227]]) It is easy to sympathize with African resentment of the attitude epitomized by Mr. Trevor-Roper, or for that matter by Saul Bellow asking, "Who is *the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/?"
51. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/19/opinion/l-china-s-rights-abuses-reflect-a-bitter-history-designs-on-mongolia-142292.html][1992/05/19/0529854]]) It specifically blames the United States, some Japanese academics and *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, who visited Mongolia last year, for attempting to unite "the three Mongolias."+
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q480427][Dred Scott]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/22/us/execution-stirs-up-troubling-questions.html][1992/05/22/0530662]]) Mr. Coleman's lawyer, Kathleen A. Behan, a member of Arnold & Porter who was not representing Mr. Coleman when the filing deadline was missed, said the case would be remembered as "*the Dred Scott of* /death penalty law/."
53. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21505718][Miguel Angel Barrios]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/24/weekinreview/conversations-sergio-munoz-invisible-presence-grows-barrios-los-angeles.html][1992/05/24/0531060]]) Conversations/Sergio Munoz; An Invisible Presence Grows In *the Barrios of* Los Angeles+
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/24/sports/golf-when-racial-barriers-die-hard.html][1992/05/24/0531233]]) Though he dislikes the comparison because the rate of blacks entering professional golf has actually diminished, he is often called *the Jackie Robinson of* /golf/.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320633][Francis Scott Key]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/29/news/bar-gone-are-tie-dyed-shirts-marijuana-woodstock-era-guitarist-covets-judicial.html][1992/05/29/0532182]]) It was "Country Joe" McDonald, *the Francis Scott Key of* /the Vietnam era/, who dominated the movie, at one point leading 500,000 fans in an obscene variant of a familiar high-school cheer.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/01/sports/sports-of-the-times-here-s-a-soda-for-buck-leonard.html][1992/06/01/0533054]]) In those years he and the Grays' catcher, the late Josh Gibson, were considered the Lou Gehrig and *the Babe Ruth of* /the team that won nine consecutive pennants in what are still called the Negro Leagues/.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/the-media-business-advertising-some-big-marketers-join-audience-for-infomercials.html][1992/06/05/0533773]]) Even today, the infomercial remains *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /advertising/, shunned and doubted for many reasons: state and Federal investigations of infomercial producers, complaints about product performance and, most crucial, a belief that a lengthy commercial disguised as a conventional program -- like a talk show complete with host, theme song and studio audience -- unfairly masks what is nothing more than a sales spiel.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1349086][Freddie Laker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/company-news-germans-to-buy-britain-s-thomas-cook-chain.html][1992/06/05/0533783]]) He was *the Freddie Laker of* /his time/: just as Mr. Laker and imitators like People Express opened up air travel to the masses in the late 1970's, Mr. Cook, the creator of the packaged holiday, opened up the world of international leisure travel to the middle class of the last century.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/08/sports/horse-racing-no-star-emerges-from-the-mother-goose.html][1992/06/08/0534624]]) She is a roan daughter of Darn That Alarm, owned by the Valley View Farm and trained by Red Terrill, who said today: "She's *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the fillies/.
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q332032][Alice Cooper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/11/arts/pop-and-jazz-in-review-731192.html][1992/06/11/0535323]]) In a way, Skinny Puppy is more effective with the invisibility of recordings than it is onstage; sometimes, Ogre can come across as *the Alice Cooper of* /industrial rock/.
61. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83396][Eleanor Roosevelt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/14/books/l-eleanor-roosevelt-s-private-life-276092.html][1992/06/14/0535834]]) For Ms. Cook to take *the Eleanor Roosevelt of* the 1930's and 1940's -- a woman for whom upbringing, etiquette, politeness and other social mores of the time were the guidelines and restrictions of her behavior -- and push 1990's attitudes and so-called liberation upon her is inappropriate, offensive and ill-fitting.+
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/14/nyregion/long-island-journal-975692.html][1992/06/14/0536108]]) Besides his theater, Dr. Schoen has his own company of actors, making him *the Shakespeare of* /suburbia/.
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235965][Barbara Cartland]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/14/style/the-queen-of-hearts.html][1992/06/14/0536121]]) How great a responsibility does *the Barbara Cartland of* /weddingdom/ owe her readers?
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/21/style/cuttings-rescuing-what-is-left.html][1992/06/21/0537499]]) If I wasn't such a softy, I'd rip it out and start over, but this cuke is *the John Wayne of* /the cucurbit world/.
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318619][McCoy Tyner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/22/arts/review-jazz-festival-tribute-to-coltrane-from-charles-lloyd.html][1992/06/22/0537850]]) Mr. Tyner is no longer *the McCoy Tyner of* his acolytes; for the rest of the set he put on a show of improvisation that at times seemed to empty the hall of air.+
66. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/25/garden/a-historic-colonial-garden-is-recovered-from-the-rough.html][1992/06/25/0538457]]) "It is *the Mona Lisa of* early American landscapes," Mr. Poston said.+
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7352612][Robin Leach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/28/style/egos-ids-gardens-of-the-stars-and-just-plain-ivana.html][1992/06/28/0539189]]) Julian Sands, an actor, wants to become *the Robin Leach of* /gardening/.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53393][Jimmy Connors]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/02/arts/reviews-dance-cast-changes-in-the-kirov-s-bayadere.html][1992/07/02/0540143]]) Miss Chenchikova, for instance, is *the Jimmy Connors of* /ballet/: She throws herself full force into her dancing without regard to niceties of form.
69. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/travel/have-you-heard-the-one-about.html][1992/07/05/0540526]]) Just listen to *the Madonna of* the Sleepers, Lady Diana Wyndham, as, at the end of Dekobra's best seller, she languidly announces: "I have a train ticket for Constantinople.+
70. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42511][H. G. Wells]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/books/the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-yellow-bricks.html][1992/07/05/0540532]]) To the Editor: We enjoyed Sue Stiles's "Dressing Up *the Wells of* England" (May 17); it brought back fond remembrances of our lives in Sheffield and the Peak District.+
71. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36949][Robert De Niro]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/magazine/the-intensely-imagined-life-of-daniel-day-lewis.html][1992/07/05/0540830]]) Emulating Brando, Duvall and especially *the De Niro of* "Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver," they discharged raw aggression, opting for roles as messed-up loners.+
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1091285][Holly Woodlawn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/10/movies/review-film-russian-madame-bovary-familiar-but-no-imitation.html][1992/07/10/0541591]]) At times she looks like an older version of *the Holly Woodlawn of* "/Trash/."
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/12/sports/horse-racing-two-thirds-of-a-tiara-for-turnback-the-alarm.html][1992/07/12/0542029]]) Her trainer, Red Terrill, has been saying for months that she was "*the Rodney Dangerfield of* /horses/," the one who got no respect.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207955][Omar Bradley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/12/weekinreview/the-world-a-serb-fighting-serbs-defends-sarajevo.html][1992/07/12/0542239]]) In an army that has as many men in running shoes and jeans jackets as in camouflage fatigues, Col. Divjak has become *the Omar Bradley of* /the war/, the soldiers' soldier who prefers to be where the action is.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49214][Dan Quayle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/16/opinion/essay-the-me-too-democrats.html][1992/07/16/0543182]]) (He called King Herod "*the Dan Quayle of* /his day/" in a silly display of Salome tactics.)
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/17/business/digital-equipment-founder-is-stepping-down.html][1992/07/17/0543317]]) "He's *the Michael Jordan of* /management in Digital/."
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235975][Mary Lou Retton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/19/sports/barcelona-a-viewers-guide-the-sports-zmeskal-has-golden-credentials.html][1992/07/19/0544003]]) Kim Zmeskal, a ferocious competitor and legitimate challenger to Svetlana Boginskaya of the Unified Team for the Olympic all-around title in gymnastics, could become *the Mary Lou Retton of* /1992/.
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q943107][Lowell Thomas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/22/garden/at-lunch-with-bob-costas-raising-the-quip-toss-to-an-olympic-sport.html][1992/07/22/0544528]]) If Mr. McKay presented himself as *the Lowell Thomas of* /the Olympics/, Mr. Costas will be more like the guide on Disney's Jungle Ride.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/26/nyregion/about-long-island-a-very-private-legend.html][1992/07/26/0545424]]) Dr. Barbara McClintock is *the Greta Garbo of* /the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6771843][Marlin Fitzwater]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/02/sports/on-basketball-i-pledge-allegiance-to-the-flag-apparel.html][1992/08/02/0547073]]) publicist, Mike Moran, *the Marlin Fitzwater of* /the U.S.O.C./, tearing into the Dream Team as "arrogant" and "out of touch with reality."
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51566][Spike Lee]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/02/movies/film-for-his-new-film-hanif-kureishi-reaches-for-a-beautiful-laundrette.html][1992/08/02/0547235]]) Some in the film world call him *the Spike Lee of* /England/.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/03/movies/the-talk-of-hollywood-3-competing-chiefs-are-suddenly-allies-in-a-war-on-costs.html][1992/08/03/0547319]]) Mr. Cave is *the Elvis of* /punk/, a beloved and semitragic cult icon who for years has been battling the demon of his own image.
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215805][Peter Max]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/09/arts/art-peter-max-is-poised-to-replay-his-15-minutes.html][1992/08/09/0548866]]) Ask him how *the Peter Max of* today is different from the Peter Max of the 60's, and the response is all about the swami.+
84. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215805][Peter Max]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/09/arts/art-peter-max-is-poised-to-replay-his-15-minutes.html][1992/08/09/0548866]]) Ask him how the Peter Max of today is different from *the Peter Max of* the 60's, and the response is all about the swami.+
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366563][Dick Clark]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/11/business/media-business-advertising-putting-olympic-torch-games-commercials.html][1992/08/11/0549300]]) Worse, perhaps, than the continual cheerfulness of Bob Costas -- *the Dick Clark of* /Barcelona/ -- or the quantity of the advertising was its quality, or lack thereof.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/16/weekinreview/don-t-look-back-as-bush-runs-again-history-nips-at-his-heels.html][1992/08/16/0550630]]) Mr. Taft lost when *the Ross Perot of* /his day/, former President Theodore Roosevelt, ran as a third-party candidate and split the Republican vote in 1912.
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23685][Jimmy Carter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/18/news/in-their-own-words-unhumbled-buchanan-backs-bush.html][1992/08/18/0551023]]) Five months ago, Patrick J. Buchanan said President Bush was becoming "*the Jimmy Carter of* /the Republican Party/."
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864751][The Hatter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/20/garden/the-jules-verne-of-modern-architecture.html][1992/08/20/0551481]]) Because the man standing at the pivoting front door, turning off the waterfall to be heard above his howling dachshunds, is not *the Mad Hatter of* /Architecture/.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/21/world/bahamian-leader-loses-in-election.html][1992/08/21/0551555]]) Though clearly shocked by the dimensions of his defeat, which saw several Cabinet Ministers and the Speaker of the House lose their seats, Sir Lynden, whose supporters called him "*the Moses of* /the Bahamas/," accepted the rejection of his leadership calmly and without the rancor that characterized the months of campaigning.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9640][Lyndon B. Johnson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/23/world/poor-australia-economy-imperils-prime-minister.html][1992/08/23/0551865]]) Mr. Keating, 48 years old, has been described as *the Lyndon B. Johnson of* /Australian politics/, an expert in the sort of back-room maneuvering that he used to drive Mr. Hawke from the leadership last December.
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47551][Titian]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/23/arts/art-view-a-place-that-makes-centuries-fade-away.html][1992/08/23/0551899]]) We could even believe that *the Titian of* St. John the Evangelist on Patmos had always been installed as it is now -- as a ceiling painting set in a simulated Renaissance ceiling -- rather than as a painting that looked out of place on a wall.+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19837][Steve Jobs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/24/business/computer-pioneer-s-moment-of-truth.html][1992/08/24/0552306]]) But now the 36-year-old entrepreneur, often called *the Steve Jobs of* /Japan/ in reference to the Apple Computer co-founder, is in the midst of a fight to save his company from bankruptcy.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261486][Scratch]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/30/travel/listening-for-the-scratch-of-a-pen.html][1992/08/30/0553390]]) Listening for *the Scratch of* a Pen+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5341865][Ed Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/31/opinion/essay-justice-corrupts-justice.html][1992/08/31/0553711]]) However, Mr. Dragoul now has a new pro-bono lawyer -- Bobby Lee Cook, "*the Ed Williams of* /the South/" -- who is said to understand that concealing the truth about the Government's guilty knowledge of bank fraud is not the best way to obtain leniency from Judge Shoob.
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322][Christopher Columbus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/03/garden/growing.html][1992/09/03/0554188]]) "Fairchild was *the Columbus of* /American horticulture/," said the Kampong's superintendent, Larry Schokman.
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/03/sports/us-open-92-jimbo-and-new-york-in-perfect-harmony.html][1992/09/03/0554215]]) John McEnroe, *the Picasso of* /players/, has ultimately been defeated by his inability to control Drop Dead.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722156][Buster Crabbe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/06/nyregion/long-island-journal-910192.html][1992/09/06/0554877]]) Harvey Weisenberg is *the Buster Crabbe of* /the New York State Assembly/.
98. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431604][Rick Sutcliffe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/07/sports/baseball-those-birds-of-a-feather-are-clicking-together.html][1992/09/07/0555024]]) "I told Johnny when they signed me that he wasn't getting *the Rick Sutcliffe of* 1983 or '84, but he was getting a guy who wants the ball and is going to pitch as long as you let me."+
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/11/arts/critic-s-notebook-for-adult-pop-music-a-quiet-sonic-boom.html][1992/09/11/0555702]]) Although the 50-year-old Brazilian singer and songwriter has been called *the Bob Dylan of* /Brazil/, he is more than that.
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q961851][Nelson Riddle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/11/arts/critic-s-notebook-for-adult-pop-music-a-quiet-sonic-boom.html][1992/09/11/0555702]]) They have been lavishly arranged by Ray Santos, *the Nelson Riddle of* /Latin American pop/.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q622636][Spike Jones]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/11/arts/sounds-around-town-607692.html][1992/09/11/0555712]]) Tomorrow night, he will lead a klezmer group in tricky, funny music by Mickey Katz, *the Spike Jones of* /klezmer music/.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76532][William Joyce]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/13/books/it-s-all-downhill-in-deadrock.html][1992/09/13/0556304]]) As Frank's life devolves into various slapstick (and unconvincing) scenes that would fit comfortably into the screenplay of a B movie, his daughter, Holly, tries to reunite her parents by shacking up with Lane Lawlor, a right-wing fanatic whom Frank calls "*the Lord Haw-Haw of* /the northern Rockies/."
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44616][Wyatt Earp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/15/nyregion/our-towns-respite-from-teaching-proves-deadly-to-wasps.html][1992/09/15/0556547]]) But after that last class bell rings, the 41-year-old father of two turns into *the Wyatt Earp of* /the wasp world/.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464724][Bella Abzug]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/17/nyregion/millicent-fenwick-82-dies-gave-character-to-congress.html][1992/09/17/0556993]]) Others called her *the Bella Abzug of* /Somerset County/, a nod to the outspoken former Congresswoman.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56016][Katharine Hepburn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/17/nyregion/millicent-fenwick-82-dies-gave-character-to-congress.html][1992/09/17/0556993]]) "Millicent Fenwick was *the Katharine Hepburn of* /politics/," said Charles Millard, a former aide and now a Republican New York City Councilman.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616][Marilyn Monroe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/20/books/great-men-somehow-continued-to-cross-my-path.html][1992/09/20/0557538]]) ALMA MAHLER-WERFEL was *the Marilyn Monroe of* /her day/.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230762][Dale Carnegie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/23/sports/on-basketball-knicks-reel-in-a-bumper-catch.html][1992/09/23/0558269]]) And much of it may not even be who the players are as much as how Pat Riley, *the Dale Carnegie of* /coaches/, can motivate them.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348696][Walt Frazier]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/24/sports/sports-of-the-times-riley-s-new-knick-doodlings.html][1992/09/24/0558523]]) While he never became *the Walt Frazier of* /the Knicks/, as he had dreamed as a boy watching games from the nose-bleed seats in Madison Square Garden, he was many times a fine Mark Jackson.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/30/movies/review-film-festival-independence-in-africa-and-death-in-high-places.html][1992/09/30/0559861]]) He is remembered as the "*the Elvis Presley of* /African politics/" and called a lion, a giant and a prophet.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41342][Mary Tyler Moore]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/03/news/for-any-tie-that-binds-there-is-a-club-to-join.html][1992/10/03/0560361]]) "She's been called *the Mary Tyler Moore of* /kitties/ by Cat Fancy magazine," said Karen Payne, Princess Kitty's owner and a club adviser.
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895262][Bert Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/07/style/chronicle-202192.html][1992/10/07/0561249]]) "I feel like *the Bert Parks of* /Capitol Hill/," ROGER MUDD remarked Monday evening as for the fourth consecutive year, he served as the master of ceremonies for a literary evening to benefit the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
112. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56011][Anna Magnani]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/11/style/fashion-flashback.html][1992/10/11/0561973]]) Their original inspiration, Mr. Gabbana said, was *the Anna Magnani of* Roberto Rossellini's 1940's and 1950's movies.+
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5229109][Dave Kingman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/16/sports/tv-sports-he-s-deion-he-s-outta-control-he-s-outta-control.html][1992/10/16/0563421]]) Or do you wish to be memorialized as *the Dave Kingman of* /the 1990's/?
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240496][Lizzie Borden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/18/books/crime-mystery-in-short-nonfiction-799592.html][1992/10/18/0563963]]) Winnie Ruth Judd is *the Lizzie Borden of* /Phoenix/.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213614][Cyrano de Bergerac]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/21/garden/understudies-by-choice-chefs-who-really-do-the-cooking.html][1992/10/21/0564700]]) A sous-chef, in other words, is vice chef, sometimes shadow chef, frequently chef-by-fiat, often actually ghost chef, *the Cyrano de Bergerac of* /cuisine/.
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/21/sports/on-pro-basketball-jordan-s-flip-flops-almost-rival-on-court-leaps.html][1992/10/21/0564706]]) Yet his behavior suggests that he wants to be two people, *the Air Jordan of* the carefully organized media event and Michael Jordan, whose version of the truth seems to be made up as he goes along.+
117. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/28/nyregion/news-summary-113592.html][1992/10/28/0566139]]) Will it be *the Ross Perot of* news accounts, who has been badly damaged by his complaint of Republican dirty tricks, or the Ross Perot of his own, enormously expensive television advertising campaign?+
118. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/28/nyregion/news-summary-113592.html][1992/10/28/0566139]]) Will it be the Ross Perot of news accounts, who has been badly damaged by his complaint of Republican dirty tricks, or *the Ross Perot of* his own, enormously expensive television advertising campaign?+
119. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/28/us/perot-spending-more-on-ads-than-any-candidate-before.html][1992/10/28/0566143]]) "), or *the Ross Perot of* the advertisements (down-to-earth, sober, pragmatic).+
120. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/28/us/perot-spending-more-on-ads-than-any-candidate-before.html][1992/10/28/0566143]]) Now the main question seems to be which media image will prevail: *the Ross Perot of* the news stories ("Paranoid!"+
121. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549966][Alger Hiss]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/29/us/after-40-years-a-postscript-on-hiss-russian-official-calls-him-innocent.html][1992/10/29/0566360]]) Fate and time have changed *the Alger Hiss of* the grainy newsreels, who fenced cockily with Mr. Nixon, Representative Karl Mundt of South Dakota and other members of the House committee.+
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/29/world/seoul-journal-wealthy-like-croesus-and-running-a-la-perot.html][1992/10/29/0566366]]) The founder of the giant Hyundai industrial group and now this country's most outspoken presidential candidate, Chung Ju Yung, is tired of hearing himself described as *the Ross Perot of* /South Korea/.
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239062][Winnie Madikizela-Mandela]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/30/us/the-1992-campaign-hillary-clinton-from-lawyer-to-mother-now-both-of-the-above.html][1992/10/30/0566594]]) They are closer to the assertive image that led an article in the conservative journal The American Spectator to label her "*the Winnie Mandela of* /American politics/."
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/06/arts/the-art-market-auction-houses-await-the-upturn.html][1992/11/06/0568267]]) The Metropolitan Museum of Art calls the great Chinese painter Tung Chi-chang (1555-1636) "*the Picasso of* /the Ming Dynasty/."
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2685][Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/06/arts/restaurants-128892.html][1992/11/06/0568296]]) Sparks is *the Arnold Schwarzenegger of* /New York steakhouses/: big, brash and brawny.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/06/sports/horse-show-learning-not-to-look-a-mount-in-the-eye.html][1992/11/06/0568315]]) She describes herself as "*the Donald Trump of* /the horse show world/," buying and selling horses like so many pieces of real estate, pocketing a profit and never shedding a tear as she watches her property being trucked away.
127. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/06/books/books-of-the-times-trying-to-separate-fact-from-myth-about-jesus.html][1992/11/06/0568507]]) His method is scholarly but inexact: by comparing the accounts of Jesus' life set down in the four Gospels, and using evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls and recent archeological discoveries, Mr. Wilson attempts to create a dispassionate portrait of "the real Jesus, *the Jesus of* History."+
128. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/06/books/books-of-the-times-trying-to-separate-fact-from-myth-about-jesus.html][1992/11/06/0568508]]) His method is scholarly but inexact: by comparing the accounts of Jesus' life set down in the four Gospels, and using evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls and recent archeological discoveries, Mr. Wilson attempts to create a dispassionate portrait of "the real Jesus, *the Jesus of* History."+
129. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/08/magazine/l-about-face-491592.html][1992/11/08/0568856]]) I believe that *the Bill Clinton of* 1992 is the same Bill Clinton of 1969.+
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7815640][Tom Downey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/08/nyregion/news-summary-578092.html][1992/11/08/0568892]]) But last week he was defeated by someone reminiscent of *the Tom Downey of* old: a young Turk who said the incumbent had become too distant.+
131. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7815640][Tom Downey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/08/nyregion/for-one-lawmaker-allure-of-capital-had-double-edge.html][1992/11/08/0569040]]) And last week, they resoundingly defeated Mr. Downey in favor of someone who was remarkably reminiscent of *the Tom Downey of* old: a young Turk from the Suffolk County Legislature who said the incumbent had become too high and mighty and distant.+
132. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/11/sports/boxing-holyfield-finds-himself-fighting-for-respect.html][1992/11/11/0569454]]) Even if Tyson at that point was not *the Tyson of* old, it would have been an easy fight for him."+
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q741023][Roger Maris]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/12/business/the-media-business-advertising-pay-tv-is-looking-to-score-knockout.html][1992/11/12/0569742]]) It brought in more than $50 million in pay-per-view billings from 1.45 million homes, "sort of *the Roger Maris of* /pay-per-view events/," Mr. Abraham said, mixing his sports.
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39829][Stephen King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/arts/lucia-as-a-spine-tingler.html][1992/11/15/0570452]]) It is almost an exact analogy to call Sir Walter Scott *the Stephen King of* /his day/.
135. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127318][George III of Great Britain]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/realestate/focus-south-carolina-settling-catawba-claim.html][1992/11/15/0570554]]) The tribe had been granted the 144,000 acres by *the King George III of* England in 1763 in return for giving up claim to a much larger tract.+
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q149127][Pat Buchanan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/nyregion/l-views-of-fisher-case-a-motley-group-459092.html][1992/11/15/0570584]]) The first was from Barbara Ehrenreich, *the Pat Buchanan of* /radical feminism/, calling Mr. Buttafuoco a "Guido-type person," and then, lest you miss the slur, asking pardon for "the obnoxious ethnic reference."
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/15/style/egos-ids-fun-all-the-way-to-the-bank.html][1992/11/15/0570735]]) Didn't you once say you wanted to be *the Madonna of* /tennis/?
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314712][Barry Bonds]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/19/sports/baseball-yanks-still-smarting-after-taking-a-loss.html][1992/11/19/0571427]]) The 27-year-old Hayes is not *the Barry Bonds of* /third basemen/, and he might have had a career season when he hit .257 and delivered 18 homers and 66 runs batted in, but he silenced the criticism at a troubling position, and now the nagging questions will start again.
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8027][Martin Luther King, Jr.]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/26/style/on-the-river-bank-with-billy-frank-jr-indians-and-salmon-making-nature-whole.html][1992/11/26/0572900]]) Don't expect boilerplate Euro-bashing from Mr. Frank, who has been called *the Martin Luther King of* /American Indians/.
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5679][Lord Byron]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/29/arts/pop-music-leonard-cohen-the-lord-byron-of-rock-and-roll.html][1992/11/29/0573421]]) Leonard Cohen, *the Lord Byron of* /Rock-and-Roll/
141. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3371866][Paul Morel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/29/books/restoring-the-steamy-bits-and-more.html][1992/11/29/0573468]]) "Sons" is the word in the title; but it's partly thanks to Edward Garnett's intervention that we remember chiefly just the one son, Paul, *the Paul Morel of* endless exegeses, the one who gets identified with D. H. Lawrence.+
142. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616][Marilyn Monroe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/11/movies/review-film-michelle-pfeiffer-in-a-tale-of-a-1960-s-interracial-friendship.html][1992/12/11/0575823]]) Her only problem, if you could call it that, is looking like a cross between the young Mrs. Kennedy and *the Marilyn Monroe of* "The Misfits."+
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/books/the-priest-and-the-runaways.html][1992/12/13/0576115]]) Father Ritter himself was often mentioned in the same sentence with Mother Teresa, but perhaps Charles M. Sennott's phrase, "*the Donald Trump of* /Catholicism/," better captures the personal drive and entrepreneurial spirit that led to Covenant House's phenomenal growth.
144. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78494][Arthur Koestler]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/books/the-cold-peace.html][1992/12/13/0576130]]) In some ways, "The Porcupine" brings to mind the political literature of 50 years ago: Andre Malraux, George Orwell and particularly *the Arthur Koestler of* "Darkness at Noon."+
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/business/making-a-difference-silicon-valley-s-laugh-man.html][1992/12/13/0576218]]) "I'M *the Bill Gates of* /computer culture/," says Jeff Armstrong, who's been satirizing the Microsoft chairman and lesser members of the industry for six years as one of the world's first high-tech comedians.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37079][Tom Cruise]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/world/mission-to-somalia-marines-and-somalis-2-worlds-meet.html][1992/12/13/0576330]]) "I'm *the Tom Cruise of* /Somalia/."
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711688][Mark Morris]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/14/arts/review-dance-the-hard-nut-mark-morris-toys-with-tradition.html][1992/12/14/0576566]]) It is perfectly in tune with revisionist French versions of "Romeo and Juliet" set on the Eastern side of the Berlin wall, Swedish productions like Mr. Ek's "Swan Lake," which puts men as well as women in tutus just like "The Hard Nut" and the kind of "Giselle" with spoken text that Mr. Gallotta, *the Mark Morris of* /France/, threatens to put on next year.
148. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515008][Robert Chambers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/15/nyregion/board-to-hear-bid-for-parole-from-a-central-park-killer.html][1992/12/15/0576649]]) "What he will say is that the Robert Chambers that's there today is not *the Robert Chambers of* five years ago, and he would like to be released," said Brian O'Dwyer, his lawyer.+
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589905][Red Adair]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/20/weekinreview/the-world-a-lame-duck-diplomat-wrestles-with-a-world-in-flux.html][1992/12/20/0577852]]) LAWRENCE S. EAGLEBURGER doesn't look much like *the Red Adair of* /foreign policy/, flaunting his lame-duck status with a crippled bird pin stuck in his lapel.
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/20/travel/travel-advisory-new-israeli-park-is-roman-site.html][1992/12/20/0577926]]) The 54-square-foot Sepphoris mosaic, known as *the Mona Lisa of* the Galilee, which had been on exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, has been returned to its place in the mosaic floor.+
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313578][Vanilla Ice]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/27/arts/the-year-in-the-arts-pop-jazz-1992-a-lonely-couch-a-dash-of-sex-so-why-the-yawns.html][1992/12/27/0579154]]) -- Billy Ray Cyrus could be *the Vanilla Ice of* /country/.
152. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4924446][Jigsaw]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/31/world/war-s-pendulum-special-report-bosnia-1992-new-puzzles-jigsaw-violence.html][1992/12/31/0579977]]) ; Bosnia 1992: New Puzzles In *the Jigsaw of* Violence+

** 1993
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213919][George Foreman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/01/sports/a-midlife-run-into-a-roadblock.html][1993/01/01/0580232]]) Smith told her she would become "*the George Foreman of* /running/."
2. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766880][David Brinkley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/us/the-new-presidency-chelsea-s-school-sidwell-is-often-chosen-by-capital-s-elite.html][1993/01/06/0581081]]) Among those who have sent their children to the school in the past are *the David Brinkley of* ABC News; Leslie Stahl of CBS News; John Hechinger, a Washington business leader, and Marian Wright Edelman, head of the Children's Defense Fund.+
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128121][Mick Jagger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/garden/sesame-street-with-jeff-moss-making-splash-with-children-morning-till-bathtime.html][1993/01/06/0581156]]) "I feel like *the Mick Jagger of* /the 5-to-11 set/," he said.
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862005][Bill Callahan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/10/travel/travel-advisory-escaping-the-smog-of-katmandu.html][1993/01/10/0581756]]) Escaping *the Smog of* Katmandu+
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888302][Bob Vila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/10/style/father-earth.html][1993/01/10/0581807]]) "You have to be partners with the house," said Mr. Weaver, who has become *the Bob Vila of* /earth ships/.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186292][Joey Bishop]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/15/business/the-media-business-advertising-late-tv-s-sure-winner-the-marketer.html][1993/01/15/0583116]]) Or will the waspish host of television's first post-modern talk show turn out to be *the Joey Bishop of* /the 1990's/?
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/15/us/24-candidates-jostle-in-the-stampede-to-be-the-next-mayor-of-los-angeles.html][1993/01/15/0583131]]) A conservative, he is widely called "*the Ross Perot of* /Los Angeles/" for his wealth and businesslike solutions to urban problems.
8. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6184599][Jerry Walker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/20/sports/college-basketball-pirates-survive-overtime-scare.html][1993/01/20/0584443]]) "I definitely feel like *the Jerry Walker of* old," said Walker, who had not scored more than 18 points in any game this season before tonight's contest.+
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/24/sports/pro-football-all-s-quiet-on-western-new-york-front.html][1993/01/24/0585384]]) Bills offensive coordinator Ted Marchibroda calls quarterback Jim Kelly *the Michael Jordan of* /the Buffalo team/.
10. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/24/books/hungarians-think-the-darnedest-things.html][1993/01/24/0585396]]) In short, Leo Szilard was *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /20th-century physics/, an et al.+ (D)
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/24/books/hungarians-think-the-darndest-things.html][1993/01/24/0585480]]) In short, Leo Szilard was *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /20th-century physics/, an et al.+ (D)
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/24/books/hungarians-think-the-darndest-things.html][1993/01/24/0585481]]) In short, Leo Szilard was *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /20th-century physics/, an et al.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77688][Ruth Westheimer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/05/movies/review-film-whatever-is-loaded-laugh-at-it.html][1993/02/05/0588226]]) At one point Dr. Joyce Brothers, *the Dr. Ruth of* /yesteryear/, shows up as a coroner.
14. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182011][Antonio Stradivari]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/06/nyregion/raspy-but-democratic-kazoos-corner-market-a-company-in-eden-ny-hums-along.html][1993/02/06/0588339]]) That's because Eden is the home of "The One and Only, Original Kazoo Company Inc.," the world's only remaining factory for metal kazoos -- *the Stradivarius of* kazoos.+
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278804][Bear Bryant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/07/sports/backtalk-the-game-plan-according-to-dan-reeves.html][1993/02/07/0588786]]) I told him, "I didn't know you were *the Bear Bryant of* /New York City/."
16. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/09/sports/basketball-8-players-in-walton-and-erving-lead-way-to-hall.html][1993/02/09/0589135]]) Erving, who will be 43 on Feb. 22, was *the Michael Jordan of* his time and the unofficial player spokesman before Magic Johnson.+
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/10/sports/on-pro-basketball-erving-still-soars-above-the-rest.html][1993/02/10/0589436]]) Erving was *the Michael Jordan of* /his time/, but what a different time that was.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217557][Joyce Carol Oates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/11/garden/at-the-science-museum-with-stephen-jay-gould-an-evolving-celebrity.html][1993/02/11/0589685]]) He types and types: he is *the Joyce Carol Oates of* /science writing/.
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864751][The Hatter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/18/arts/review-theater-the-world-of-disney-transferred-to-ice.html][1993/02/18/0591154]]) At the end of a story whose characters include Pluto, Goofy, Donald and Daisy Duck, Minnie Mouse, Chip 'n' Dale and Roger Rabbit, the grand finale brings onto the ice Snow White, Prince Charming and Dopey (1938), Pinocchio, Gepetto and the evil puppet master Stromboli (1940), Alice and *the Mad Hatter of* Wonderland fame (1951), Peter Pan and entourage (1953) and many more.+
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318165][Luke Perry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/22/arts/review-television-beaming-up-new-science-fiction.html][1993/02/22/0592045]]) Less elaborate science-fiction than clever adventure caper, "The Tomorrow People" is lively and imaginative entertainment, its international cast featuring Kristian Schmid, an Australian 18-year-old soap star who, Nickelodeon insists, has become *the Luke Perry of* /London/.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/23/style/chronicle-836393.html][1993/02/23/0592228]]) Though she confined the effort to independent shops and did not approach any chains or discount stores, she said, "Now I'm thinking maybe I should just go across the country with my books and my red ribbons and be *the Johnny Appleseed of* /AIDS ribbons/."
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3925][Grace Kelly]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/24/nyregion/about-new-york-when-east-met-west-and-walking-around-led-to-brooklyn.html][1993/02/24/0592311]]) Wasn't she *the Grace Kelly of* /the Himalayas/ who in 1963 went to live in a palace in Gangtok as the bride of the Chogyal, a man revered by his subjects as the reincarnation of an ancient Buddhist holy man?
23. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2263][Tom Hanks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/movies/from-visions-of-paradise-to-hell-on-earth.html][1993/02/28/0593079]]) He bears little resemblance to *the Tom Hanks of* "Big," just as the role bears little resemblance to the light comedy he specializes in.+
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/world/defense-aide-a-favorite-to-succeed-mulroney.html][1993/02/28/0593365]]) Lynn Hunter, a British Columbia New Democrat, called her "*the Madonna of* /Canadian politics/."
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707][Dorothy Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/05/arts/sounds-around-town-295693.html][1993/03/05/0594094]]) Taking the stage at 11 is Cindy Lee Berryhill, reclaiming her title as *the Dorothy Parker of* /folk/ with a set of her dry-as-ice, bittersweet compositions.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46636][Jack Kevorkian]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/07/nyregion/political-notes-goodman-obeys-adage-to-vote-early-and-often.html][1993/03/07/0594507]]) Jim Florio "*the Jack Kevorkian of* /economic development/."
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950][James Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/08/arts/critic-s-notebook-a-lively-and-long-friendship-is-over.html][1993/03/08/0594844]]) All the great Latin bands came through, from Oscar D'Leon, *the James Brown of* /Latin music/, to Eddie Palmieri, the music's crazy, brilliant uncle; Mario Bauza, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, El Gran Combo and Mongo Santamaria all showed up.
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18179336][Alain Marcel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/10/theater/in-europe-musicals-get-varying-reactions.html][1993/03/10/0595190]]) First, it used a slightly adapted version of Tony Walton's set from the 1987 revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, with stage direction (by *the Alain Marcel of* /Berlin/, Helmut Baumann, who runs the Theater des Westens) that stuck closely to the New York version.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6294][Hillary Clinton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/15/arts/dance-notes-a-lack-of-hospitality-by-city-ballet-board.html][1993/03/15/0596107]]) Will Miss van Hamel, who has been Mr. McKenzie's partner offstage as well as on and who has a dance company of her own, become *the Hillary Rodham Clinton of* /Ballet Theater/?
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q375356][Dick Cavett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/17/garden/at-supper-with-matthew-fox-roman-catholic-rebel-becomes-a-cause-celebre.html][1993/03/17/0596463]]) Perhaps being a prophet in the Age of Aquarius means becoming *the Dick Cavett of* /late-night theology/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/19/news/bar-twice-stung-crooked-lawyers-twice-saved-client-protection-fund.html][1993/03/19/0596753]]) In New York legal lore, Mr. Solerwitz is *the Babe Ruth of* /ripoffs/, having been convicted of stealing more than $5 million in the 1980's.
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/style/not-too-old-to-hear.html][1993/03/21/0597081]]) Merchant describes as "*the Bob Dylan of* /Italy/" (a particularly hard concept, even with headphones).
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/sports/on-baseball-money-doesn-t-buy-misery-for-indians-lofton.html][1993/03/21/0597222]]) Lofton senses that the Cleveland Indians -- *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /major-league teams/, the perennial second-division dwellers of the American League East -- are on the cusp of something different and big.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5809][Che Guevara]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/weekinreview/the-world-a-reckoning-may-be-due-for-british-landlords.html][1993/03/21/0597319]]) The person pushing the bill is none other than Sir George Young, a gawky housing minister who fights for the poor and homeless in that traitor-to-his-class spirit and is lately lampooned by The Spectator as "*the Che Guevara of* /the leaseholders/."
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294927][Jerry Lewis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/24/arts/french-culture-under-socialism-egotism-or-a-sense-of-history.html][1993/03/24/0597754]]) For himself, Mr. Lang leaves his options open, not precluding a run for the presidency after Mr. Mitterrand retires (a prospect that makes his detractors, those who see him as *the Jerry Lewis of* /politics/, cringe at his presumption).
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5928][Jimi Hendrix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/26/arts/sounds-around-town-554993.html][1993/03/26/0598111]]) Sugar Blue, who has been called *the Jimi Hendrix of* /the harmonica/, has played with everyone from Willie Dixon to the Rolling Stones.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555370][Ed McMahon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/27/us/of-3-arkansas-pals-and-a-raccoon-roast.html][1993/03/27/0598329]]) Thomas F. McLarty 3d, President Clinton's childhood friend whom they all call Mack and who is now White House chief of staff, was the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party for some of that time, describing himself "as kind of *the Ed McMahon of* /that traveling minstrel show/."
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190152][Larry Bird]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/03/sports/women-s-division-i-freshman-is-lead-again-in-a-star-is-born-sequel.html][1993/04/03/0599779]]) Scouts came regularly to the Chieftains' cozy gym then, watched Smith average 29.2 points a game and dubbed her *the Larry Bird of* /women's basketball/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319682][Louis B. Mayer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/04/education/college-majors-often-prove-minor.html][1993/04/04/0600119]]) Roger Corman, *the Louis B. Mayer of* /B Movies/, earned his degree in engineering at Stanford, and Jonathan Winters, the comedian, and Patrick Ewing, the center for the Knicks, both majored in art -- at Kenyon and Georgetown, respectively.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173585][Jessica Lange]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/04/style/deep-in-the-soul-of-texas.html][1993/04/04/0600140]]) She is kind of *the Jessica Lange of* /Austin/: she's been romantically linked with all the cool guys.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60045][Albert Speer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/07/theater/review-theater-lacerating-greed-and-decay-but-doing-it-with-humanity.html][1993/04/07/0600666]]) A former Peace Corps volunteer and the child of leftist Russian Jews, he now works for an American company that sells "*the Albert Speer of* /baby formulas/" to third-world countries and is so notorious it once co-starred on "60 Minutes" with Union Carbide and the Dalkon Shield.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/11/sports/l-backtalk-readers-speak-states-college-basketball-tracing-history-black-presence-954094.html][1993/04/11/0601653]]) By the early 1920's, Bobby Douglas, the first black in the Basketball Hall of Fame, became *the Johnny Appleseed of* /basketball/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47213][Warren Buffett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/14/business/market-place-a-venture-capital-fund-for-healthcare-companies-with-few-options.html][1993/04/14/0601989]]) "I would like to think we can be *the Warren Buffett of* /biotech/," said Mr. Frazier, 41, referring to the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, who is known for his investing prowess.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169452][Shaquille O'Neal]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/16/sports/baseball-mets-left-muttering-4-letter-word-nied.html][1993/04/16/0602520]]) David Nied, sort of *the Shaquille O'Neal of* /major league baseball/, silenced the New York Mets here.
45. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553321][Vince Lombardi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/magazine/hers-sitting-pretty.html][1993/04/18/0602847]]) My Mother is *the Vince Lombardi of* /beauty/: Looking good isn't everything, it's the only thing.+ (D)
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/magazine/24-candidates-in-search-of-a-city.html][1993/04/18/0602876]]) If Woo is *the Bill Clinton of* /the race/, then Riordan is the Ross Perot.
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553321][Vince Lombardi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/magazine/hers-sitting-pretty.html][1993/04/18/0602906]]) My Mother is *the Vince Lombardi of* /beauty/: Looking good isn't everything, it's the only thing.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94081][Bob Hope]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/23/movies/review-film-dialing-911-don-t-bother.html][1993/04/23/0604282]]) is loaded with rap-related cameos that work only if you recognize the players (Fab 5 Freddy, Kid Capri, Naughty by Nature and *the Bob Hope of* /rap cinema/, Ice-T), and have little intrinsic humor of their own.
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q503258][Busby Berkeley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/25/theater/lighting-candle-for-hair-25-tom-o-horgan-tribal-what-it-was-supposed-be-tribal.html][1993/04/25/0604418]]) At 66, the man who once qualified as *the Busby Berkeley of* /the acid set/ is right back where he started -- directing what he calls "these nutty pieces" in out-of-the-way places for audiences that tend to number in the dozens, not the thousands.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213919][George Foreman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/25/sports/tennis-never-a-retiring-sort-mcenroe-bids-to-coach.html][1993/04/25/0604474]]) "My gut feeling is that I'm going to start calling myself *the George Foreman of* /tennis/," said McEnroe, who just completed an exhibition tour with Andre Agassi and faces his next tennis assignment in the NBC booth at next month's French Open.
51. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7311][Giacomo Puccini]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/25/arts/recordings-view-jazz-was-sin-jewishness-worse.html][1993/04/25/0604806]]) The music recalls Strauss, too, along with Italo Montemezzi, Franz Schreker and *the Puccini of* "Turandot"; clearly, decadent wallowing was a la mode in the 20's.+
52. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/27/us/white-house-memo-as-perot-jabs-white-house-appears-to-bob-and-weave.html][1993/04/27/0604981]]) If only Mr. Clinton could so easily remove the specter of *the Ross Perot of* today.+
53. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/27/opinion/on-my-mind-guide-for-cleansers.html][1993/04/27/0605126]]) Its leader in exile is now in Washington -- *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet.+
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5480][Bart Simpson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/02/arts/television-view-pbs-extends-an-invitation-to-the-dance.html][1993/05/02/0605816]]) The director Peter Sellars, *the Bart Simpson of* /multicultural politics/, assures us that "dance is at the heart of culture."
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/02/books/best-sellers-may-2-1993.html][1993/05/02/0605847]]) There are major characters but no heroes in this antiromance of 1907 in Battle Creek, Mich., where Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, *the Edison of* /clean living/, presides over pilgrims who hope to escape the ills and smells that flesh is heir to.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211731][Timothy Leary]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/02/style/tripping-but-not-falling.html][1993/05/02/0605921]]) "He's an eloquent and imaginative poet of the psychedelic experience," said Mr. Leary, an unabashed admirer, who is already on record calling Mr. McKenna "*the Timothy Leary of* /the 90's/."
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/04/business/company-news-bid-to-acquire-online-is-weighed.html][1993/05/04/0606538]]) "He wants to be *the Bill Gates of* /the 1990's/," said Denise Caruso, editor of Digital Media, an industry newsletter, referring to Mr. Allen's college friend with whom he founded Microsoft in the late 1970's.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q498019][Richard Simmons]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/05/garden/rating-tv-chefs-cooks-beware.html][1993/05/05/0606853]]) Graham Kerr is *the Richard Simmons of* /cooking teachers/.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364990][Pat Robertson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/05/arts/review-television-opinions-on-pornography-pro-con-and-a-bit-of-each.html][1993/05/05/0606897]]) If pornography bothers you, you may welcome the recurrent appearances of Andrea Dworkin, *the Pat Robertson of* /feminism/, who asserts that like everything else about American society, pornography is a conspiracy against women.
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/09/sports/notebook-whoever-s-on-first-he-probably-isn-t-hitting-what-you-expect.html][1993/05/09/0607593]]) Scott Sanderson is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /baseball/.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/09/movies/film-battle-of-the-action-heroes.html][1993/05/09/0607682]]) Actor: Jason Scott Lee  Vital statistics: Age 26, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 155 pounds  Training routine: Six to eight hours a day, six days a week, for 10 months, plus weeks of work with those nasty Oriental weapons, the nunchukus  Salary: A reported $250,000 Movie: "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" (opened on Friday)  Pitch: A Bruce Lee movie without Bruce Lee  Budget: $15 million to $20 million Character: Bruce Lee, *the Michelangelo of* /martial arts/  Lethal Weapons: Jeet kune do (Lee's personal brand of  mayhem) and the accompanying vocal hee-yah-ahhhhs  Lethal line: "I have to finish my workout.
62. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/10/sports/sports-of-the-times-there-s-a-not-so-secret-word-at-shea-these-days-boo.html][1993/05/10/0608080]]) But Bonilla thought it was going to be a home run, and stood at second admiring it, like it was *the Mona Lisa of* long balls.+
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5673][Hans Christian Andersen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/13/style/chronicle-673293.html][1993/05/13/0608627]]) "I guess I am running the risk of becoming *the Hans Christian Andersen of* /opera/," Mr. Menotti said.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327071][Paul Revere]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/15/style/chronicle-464793.html][1993/05/15/0608957]]) Dr. Commoner, the director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College, is being honored as "*the Paul Revere of* /Ecology/."
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/16/realestate/focus-philadelphia-trying-to-channel-parking.html][1993/05/16/0609056]]) "Parking is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /transportation/ -- it gets no respect, but it's critical to development."+ (D)
66. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/16/realestate/focus-philadelphia-trying-to-channel-parking.html][1993/05/16/0609063]]) "Parking is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /transportation/ -- it gets no respect, but it's critical to development."+ (D)
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/16/style/weddings-ilene-gayle-karp-robert-michaels.html][1993/05/16/0609450]]) Surrounding this core group is a slew of other principal players: Paige Katz (Kim Cattrall), popping back into Harry's life as Tony's fiancee; Tabba Schwartzkopf (Bebe Neuwirth), star of Tony's new sitcom "Church Windows"; Tully Woiwode (Nick Mancuso), an artist; Chap Starfall (Robert Morse), a seedy singer whose repertory includes "Let's Face the Music and Dance," and Eli's son, Chickie Levitt (Brad Dourif), a cyberspace genius known as *the Einstein of* /the New World/.
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/16/realestate/focus-philadelphia-zoning-downtown-to-channel-parking.html][1993/05/16/0609453]]) "Parking is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /transportation/ -- it gets no respect, but it's critical to development."+ (D)
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/16/realestate/focus-philadelphia-zoning-downtown-to-channel-parking.html][1993/05/16/0609454]]) "Parking is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /transportation/ -- it gets no respect, but it's critical to development."
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/16/style/what-s-new-tomcat.html][1993/05/16/0609467]]) He sat on a couch against the wall, where he was introduced to "*the Madonna of* /Russia/," a tall, exotic woman in Michael Jackson-like ersatz military wear.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535129][Sol Hurok]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/19/garden/at-lunch-with-alan-king-the-man-who-grew-up-talkative.html][1993/05/19/0609956]]) These days he is relishing his role as *the Sol Hurok of* /the comedy festival/, which he is producing with George Wein, promoter of the Newport Jazz Festival.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q943181][Philip Taaffe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/21/arts/art-in-review-267193.html][1993/05/21/0610287]]) Fred Tomaselli might be called *the Philip Taaffe of* /pharmaceuticals/.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/23/nyregion/wait-till-next-year-casino-advocates-say.html][1993/05/23/0610850]]) "When you've got Steve Wynn involved, who I think is *the P. T. Barnum of* /our century/, it's going to be difficult to ignore," said Mr. Amann, the casino supporter.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355314][Jack Welch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/27/business/company-news-from-gates-a-cheer-for-ibm.html][1993/05/27/0611510]]) may not make sense," Mr. Gates continued, without offering an opinion on whether Mr. Gerstner is *the Jack Welch of* /the computer industry/.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294358][Warren Christopher]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/02/us/black-mediator-serves-as-a-bridge-to-koreans.html][1993/06/02/0612641]]) She is *the Warren Christopher of* /the inner city/, and operates with the tact and cool-headed discretion of a well-traveled diplomat.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/04/nyregion/our-towns-builder-of-parade-floats-puts-world-on-wheels.html][1993/06/04/0612971]]) He has been called *the Michelangelo of* /floats/.
77. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/books/books-for-vacation-reading.html][1993/06/06/0613383]]) There are major characters but no heroes in this antiromance of 1907 in Battle Creek, Mich., where Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, *the Edison of* /clean living/, presides over pilgrims who hope to escape the ills and smells that flesh is heir to.+ (D)
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311885][Patrick Henry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/07/world/hillsborough-journal-the-talk-of-the-isle-pop-6000-liberty-or-death.html][1993/06/07/0613743]]) Fittingly, *the Patrick Henry of* /this drama/ is an American-trained lawyer, Anselm B. Clouden, who by evoking the seafaring ways of his ancestors, and their descendants' supposed mistreatment at the hands of Grenadians, has begun to arouse strong nationalist passions in his neighbors.
79. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1458307][Richard Dumas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/07/sports/basketball-barkley-relishes-his-prime-time-spot.html][1993/06/07/0613823]]) As the Suns look ahead to this final round, the franchise's first since its epic loss to John Havlicek's Boston Celtics in 1976, they need the Barkley of Saturday, *the Richard Dumas of* February and the Tom Chambers of 1985.+
80. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q963854][Tom Chambers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/07/sports/basketball-barkley-relishes-his-prime-time-spot.html][1993/06/07/0613823]]) As the Suns look ahead to this final round, the franchise's first since its epic loss to John Havlicek's Boston Celtics in 1976, they need the Barkley of Saturday, the Richard Dumas of February and *the Tom Chambers of* 1985.+
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/obituaries/arthur-alexander-singer-dies-at-53-influence-on-rock.html][1993/06/11/0614470]]) This was soon after *the Elvis of* /basketball/ had left the building.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15524996][Jimmy Breslin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/12/business/the-media-business-no-babe-ruth-reprise-but-still-a-sense-of-loss.html][1993/06/12/0614699]]) Mr. Barnicle, who has been called *the Jimmy Breslin of* /Boston/, joked in a recent column about buying an ascot and a hat in honor of his new employers from New York.
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2922982][Boy Wonder]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/13/us/on-capitol-hill-a-top-aide-with-no-belief-in-age-limits.html][1993/06/13/0614799]]) Even the baby-boomer White House, awash with aides under 30 years old, has few who can rival Henry Ellenbogen, *the Boy Wonder of* Capitol Hill.+
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312348][Thurgood Marshall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/15/us/supreme-court-woman-rejected-clerk-chosen-justice-ruth-joan-bader-ginsburg.html][1993/06/15/0615573]]) "She is *the Thurgood Marshall of* /gender equality law/," said Janet Benshoof, the president of the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, an abortion-rights advocacy group, repeating a common description of Judge Ginsburg.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308840][Jean-Claude Van Damme]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/22/theater/review-theater-camelot-returns-with-goulet-as-king.html][1993/06/22/0617020]]) In his place in the revival is Steve Blanchard, who may be *the Jean-Claude Van Damme of* /musical actors/.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/24/garden/at-wimbledon-with-ion-tiriac-tennis-s-grandest-bad-boy.html][1993/06/24/0617369]]) Before he became a Svengali to Boris Becker, a multimillionaire tennis manager, a touted prospect for high office in Romania and *the Donald Trump of* /fledgling Romanian capitalism/, Ion (pronounced Yon) Tiriac played here two decades ago against such stars as Rod Laver, Clark Graebner and Stan Smith.
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28764562][Joyce Oliveira]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/27/books/reader-she-married-him-alas.html][1993/06/27/0617983]]) It is impossible, despite his work's affinities to Dostoyevsky and Hardy and *the Joyce of* "Dubliners," to put a date on it: the post-colonial world has its own unique time lines.+
88. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28764562][Joyce Oliveira]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/27/books/reader-she-married-him-alas.html][1993/06/27/0617984]]) It is impossible, despite his work's affinities to Dostoyevsky and Hardy and *the Joyce of* "Dubliners," to put a date on it: the post-colonial world has its own unique time lines.+
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/27/nyregion/about-long-island-swindled-even-out-of-their-house-in-old-age.html][1993/06/27/0618171]]) Ms. Frank was *the Madonna of* /her day/, at least in breaking with tradition.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/28/sports/tennis-rotter-on-the-court-keeping-tabs-on-the-tabloids-at-wimbledon.html][1993/06/28/0618352]]) Agassi, who is *the Madonna of* /his sport/, a sly marketer of his own flashy image, was more than up to the verbal duel.
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319099][Michael Dukakis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/04/sports/notebook-surprise-english-turn-backs-on-a-gentleman.html][1993/07/04/0619263]]) Pete Sampras's reputation as *the Michael Dukakis of* /tennis/ was reconfirmed this weekend when the results of a London radio station contest about Wimbledon players were published.
92. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/06/movies/review-television-the-dalai-lama-as-boy-man-leader.html][1993/07/06/0619880]]) Despite its overly reverent tone, "Compassion in Exile" is an engaging portrait of Tenzin Gyatso, *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, who has been in exile in India since 1959, when he fled Chinese repression.+
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51516][John Madden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/06/sports/tv-sports-all-rise-tyson-appeals-court-is-in-session.html][1993/07/06/0619887]]) Let us not yet anoint John McEnroe as *the John Madden of* /tennis/ on the strength of his Wimbledon analysis.
94. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6133245][Spin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/06/books/books-of-the-times-one-network-s-trip-on-the-campaign-trail.html][1993/07/06/0619910]]) Using *the Spin of* Electrons To Make the Smallest Chips Yet+
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/07/sports/sports-of-the-times-one-final-pursuit-of-glory.html][1993/07/07/0620076]]) His father was alternately called the Bull and *the Babe Ruth of* /the Caribbean/.
96. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/business/at-work-speaking-for-the-working-woman.html][1993/07/11/0620660]]) She may not, as some of her activists-in-arms suggest, be *the Mother Teresa of* /progressive politics/, but she will, by all accounts, bring a steadying, working-person's perspective to an office that has suffered through a series of less-than-attentive, let-them-eat-cake administrators for roughly a dozen years.+ (D)
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/business/at-work-speaking-for-the-working-woman.html][1993/07/11/0620661]]) She may not, as some of her activists-in-arms suggest, be *the Mother Teresa of* /progressive politics/, but she will, by all accounts, bring a steadying, working-person's perspective to an office that has suffered through a series of less-than-attentive, let-them-eat-cake administrators for roughly a dozen years.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6660303][Liz Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/nyregion/about-long-island-indulging-in-some-of-life-s-luxuries.html][1993/07/11/0620690]]) Miss Lynch is *the Liz Smith of* /the Sagaponack Store/.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77688][Ruth Westheimer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/11/nyregion/lesson-for-ballerinas-it-takes-two-to-dance-a-pas-de-deux.html][1993/07/11/0620775]]) SOUNDING like *the Dr. Ruth of* /ballet/, David Richardson, a teacher and dancer at the American Ballet Theater, explained the art of partnering to a pas de deux class at the Y.M.-Y.W.H.A.
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1889422][Felix Unger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/13/sports/baseball-drysdale-services-a-tribute-to-his-humanity.html][1993/07/13/0621332]]) Uecker went on to relate how Drysdale was "*the Felix Unger of* /sports/," hated fingerprints on his bathroom mirror and "if you slept at his house and weren't up by 5 or 6, he'd make the bed no matter if you were in it."
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49214][Dan Quayle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/14/business/careful-player-moves-closer-to-the-top-at-bear-stearns.html][1993/07/14/0621422]]) Others were less generous, portraying Mr. Cayne as *the Dan Quayle of* /Bear Stearns/, a consummate strategist in his career and his game but sometimes given to saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316][Saddam Hussein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/22/opinion/in-somalia-machiavelli-vs-rambo.html][1993/07/22/0623263]]) Until recently, General Aidid -- now defined as a war criminal, terrorist, *the Saddam Hussein of* /Africa/ -- was Washington's best friend in Somalia.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40912][Frank Sinatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/23/arts/tv-weekend-equal-injustice-for-all-in-political-spoof-show.html][1993/07/23/0623442]]) After explaining that "all the material has been satirized for your protection," Mr. Maher introduces his guests: the comics Larry Miller and Jerry Seinfeld ("*the Frank Sinatra of* /nouveau comedians/"); Robin Quivers, the longtime partner of the shock radio and television personality Howard Stern; and, from out of left -- or perhaps right -- field, the political consultant Ed Rollins.
104. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31073][Walter Cronkite]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/25/arts/television-walter-cronkite-finds-it-hard-to-say-no.html][1993/07/25/0623986]]) So, *the Walter Cronkite of* the old days is not about to reappear in all of his former splendor.+
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5577][Salvador Dalí]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/30/arts/art-in-review-178093.html][1993/07/30/0625014]]) Considerably more sensational are a startling photograph by the San Francisco artists Aziz and Cucher that shows a male nude whose genitals have been rubbed out through computer wizardry -- a kind of off-the-charts idealization -- and Alexander Hahn's "Urbs Turrita," an installation consisting of three television tubes whose strange mix of old and new images, which include the tubes themselves set in interiors taken from German Romantic paintings, could establish the artist as *the Salvador Dali of* /television/.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887401][Bo Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/08/weekinreview/aug-1-7-e-coli-the-ubiquitous.html][1993/08/08/0627283]]) It is *the Bo Jackson of* /the bacteria world/, the bug-of-all-trades, and it made a reappearance last week in an unusual role, a microscopic clue that led investigators to the scene of an environmental crime.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219780][Hunter S. Thompson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/08/style/the-evolution-of-cyberpunk.html][1993/08/08/0627393]]) Larry McCaffery, an English professor at San Diego State University, edits a special issue of the Mississippi Review about cyberpunk fiction, including a story by Mark Leyner, *the Hunter S. Thompson of* /cyberpunk/.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164119][Mark Wahlberg]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/08/style/seriously-wired.html][1993/08/08/0627399]]) Idol just *the Marky Mark of* /cyber culture/, appropriating a fringe movement for his own commercial ends?
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6143472][Jimmy Key]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/09/sports/sports-of-the-times-history-is-on-the-side-of-the-veteran-pitcher.html][1993/08/09/0627648]]) Guidry -- *the Jimmy Key of* /his era/ -- was fulfilling his duties admirably, in fact, he won 9 of his final 11 decisions that year.
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/11/arts/mood-ellington-the-faithful-gather.html][1993/08/11/0628120]]) Duke Ellington is Russia to *the Napoleon of* his biographers and fans.+
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/13/nyregion/cuomo-names-republican-to-court-of-appeals-seat.html][1993/08/13/0628528]]) Since 1985, when his name was first recommended to the Governor for the Court of Appeals, Justice Levine has become *the Susan Lucci of* /New York's judiciary/.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107190][Peter Pan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/style/bubbrother.html][1993/08/15/0628698]]) He is *the Peter Pan of* /First-Brother Land/, as he calls it, and he bubbles with ideas, one for a generic cola commercial featuring his letters on his brother's campaign stationery, one for a rhythm-and-blues duet with the President.
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4935855][Bobo Holloman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/18/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-derby-is-history-to-sea-hero.html][1993/08/18/0629471]]) IT'S beginning to look as if Sea Hero is *the Bobo Holloman of* /racing/.
114. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887401][Bo Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/19/sports/baseball-a-different-bo-jackson-is-back-with-white-sox.html][1993/08/19/0629701]]) And while he is not quite *the Bo Jackson of* legend and lore on a consistent basis on the field, he does have his moments.+
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/26/sports/on-baseball-a-second-city-star-craves-the-big-award.html][1993/08/26/0631050]]) "Joey Cora calls me *the Michael Jordan of* /the White Sox/.
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41148][Martin Scorsese]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/03/movies/critics-choices-artful-activities-for-summer-s-wane-196093.html][1993/09/03/0632255]]) The tough-guy dialogue has an edge, concision and dark humor that echo *the Martin Scorsese of* "Mean Streets."+
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239691][Sandy Dennis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/03/movies/review-film-a-tour-of-homicidal-america.html][1993/09/03/0632371]]) (Ms. Lewis, who has many similar mannerisms, may be fast becoming *the Sandy Dennis of* /her generation/.)
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264490][Gianni Versace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/19/nyregion/long-island-journal-293893.html][1993/09/19/0635361]]) As *the Gianni Versace of* /the Shore Association of Nassau Girl Scouts/, Mrs. Geller was responsible for sending out on a runway, five times, four junior girl scouts and one brownie, each holding a doll dressed exactly the same as they were.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122003][Julio Iglesias]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/19/arts/pop-music-latin-music-crosses-new-borders.html][1993/09/19/0635557]]) Once again, Luis Miguel -- a Mexican born in Puerto Rico of Spanish-Italian parents whose full name is Luis Miguel Gallego -- has been confirmed as Latin heartthrob numero uno, *the Julio Iglesias of* /his generation/.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/19/arts/pop-music-latin-music-crosses-new-borders.html][1993/09/19/0635557]]) For the pop singer and actress Gloria Trevi, whose image as "*the Madonna of* /Mexico/" has been fed by her decision to pose for cheesecake calendars, and her BMG label-mate Alejandra Guzman, another performer who cultivates a "bad girl" image, MTV promises to be a major career boost.
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/26/nyregion/connecticut-guide-152293.html][1993/09/26/0636797]]) He's such a bizarre character, sort of *the Shakespeare of* /microbiology/.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123867][Marquis de Sade]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/26/business/sound-bytes-to-this-microsoft-executive-the-suite-smells-of-success.html][1993/09/26/0636952]]) When we introduced Word in October 1983, in its first incarnation it was dubbed *the Marquis de Sade of* /word processors/, which was not altogether unfair.
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/28/obituaries/james-doolittle-96-pioneer-aviator-who-led-first-raid-on-japan-dies.html][1993/09/28/0637349]]) Because of his accomplishments as a test and stunt pilot and as a aviation engineer, he was referred to by one admirer as "*the Leonardo da Vinci of* /flight/."+ (D)
124. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505850][Rube Goldberg]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/28/obituaries/james-doolittle-96-pioneer-aviator-who-led-first-raid-on-japan-dies.html][1993/09/28/0637349]]) What he meant was I'm *the Rube Goldberg of* aviation."+
125. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/28/obituaries/james-doolittle-96-pioneer-aviator-who-led-first-raid-on-japan-dies.html][1993/09/28/0637350]]) Because of his accomplishments as a test and stunt pilot and as a aviation engineer, he was referred to by one admirer as "*the Leonardo da Vinci of* /flight/."+ (D)
126. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505850][Rube Goldberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/28/obituaries/james-doolittle-96-pioneer-aviator-who-led-first-raid-on-japan-dies.html][1993/09/28/0637350]]) What he meant was I'm *the Rube Goldberg of* aviation."+
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/29/us/james-doolittle-96-pioneer-aviator-who-led-first-raid-on-japan-dies.html][1993/09/29/0637435]]) Because of his accomplishments as a test and stunt pilot and as an aviation engineer, he was referred to by one admirer as "*the Leonardo da Vinci of* /flight/."
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505850][Rube Goldberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/29/us/james-doolittle-96-pioneer-aviator-who-led-first-raid-on-japan-dies.html][1993/09/29/0637435]]) What he meant was I'm *the Rube Goldberg of* /aviation/."
129. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457840][Will Rogers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/29/books/books-of-the-times-a-serious-look-at-a-humorous-man.html][1993/09/29/0637482]]) So before you are left alone with reruns of "The Beverly Hillbillies" or with your copy of "Ole Rivers," Walter Brennan's hit record about his mule, let us turn back to *the Will Rogers of* the Jazz Age.+
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267184][Annie Ross]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/movies/pop-music-a-free-spirited-survivor-lands-on-her-feet.html][1993/10/03/0638261]]) And is *the Annie Ross of* today any different from the young woman who won Down Beat's New Star Award of 1952?+
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9696][John F. Kennedy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/09/opinion/observer-make-it-bill-and-lyndon.html][1993/10/09/0639702]]) Although President Clinton has always invited us to think of him as *the Jack Kennedy of* /the 1990's generation/, the more I watch him the more he reminds me of Lyndon Johnson.
132. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78494][Arthur Koestler]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/10/books/new-noteworthy-paperbacks-591193.html][1993/10/10/0640105]]) Andre Malraux, George Orwell and particularly *the Arthur Koestler of* 'Darkness at Noon.'+
133. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722874][John MacLean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/13/sports/hockey-nothing-diabolical-about-4-0-devils.html][1993/10/13/0640931]]) There is no comparison between *the John MacLean of* this season and last.+
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41166][Jonathan Swift]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/nyregion/barbara-ehrenreich-s-writing-attracts-an-attentive-audience.html][1993/10/17/0642116]]) One British critic, Charles Brener of The Times of London, has called her *the Jonathan Swift of* /the American 90's/.
135. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7317][Giuseppe Verdi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/17/arts/classical-music-a-new-masterpiece-for-the-verdi-canon.html][1993/10/17/0642444]]) The fact is that Verdi, or at least *the Verdi of* 1850, did not have a music for the weighing of complex ethical issues in a reflective mind.+
136. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/18/opinion/a-timely-peace-prize.html][1993/10/18/0642574]]) Indeed, a salute is owed to the Norwegian prize committee for the risks it has taken in recent years to recognize daring reformers like the former Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, the Burmese champion of human rights, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, who has courted Chinese anger by speaking out for his captive people.+
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4885397][Ben Cartwright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/19/nyregion/our-towns-foes-draw-battle-lines-in-red-tape.html][1993/10/19/0642904]]) He is *the Ben Cartwright of* /his own Ponderosa/, an 800-acre spread along Route 34 in Monmouth County that started out 50 years ago as a general aviation field (now called Allaire Airport) that eventually came to include an industrial park, driving range, lucrative gravel quarry and, three years ago, an amusement park called Ed Brown's Playground.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350844][Christian Lacroix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/19/news/patterns-686093.html][1993/10/19/0642934]]) You might just be discovering *the Christian Lacroix of* /the 90's/."
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/24/nyregion/two-worlds-of-kurt-masur-collide-in-new-york.html][1993/10/24/0644305]]) Someone from the Gewandhaus wanted to know if Mr. Masur, with his trademark bolo tie, was *the John Wayne of* /New York/.
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134180][Truman Capote]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/24/magazine/the-snooty-dame-at-the-block-party.html][1993/10/24/0644390]]) I can be *the Truman Capote of* /the atelier/."
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130853][Plácido Domingo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/24/style/l-dear-conan-more-advice-981693.html][1993/10/24/0644532]]) Ovations should be earned, not orchestrated, and you are not yet *the Placido Domingo of* /late-night television/.
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298237][Benedict Arnold]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/25/sports/pro-football-hebert-finds-there-s-no-place-like-home.html][1993/10/25/0644685]]) I'm like *the Benedict Arnold of* /New Orleans/, going to Atlanta of all places."
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/29/us/a-verdict-on-kevorkian-their-kind-of-neighbor.html][1993/10/29/0645546]]) Ms. Fernandez, who made the issue her own public advocacy cause after the death of Mr. Hyde, her fiance, said Dr. Kevorkian was embarrassed when she praised him "as *the Thomas Edison of* /medicine/."
144. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/31/magazine/david-gergen-master-of-the-game.html][1993/10/31/0645934]]) But even more important, Gergen says, *the Bill Clinton of* today, "has developed -- and I've talked about this with him a fair amount -- a different view of the Presidency and what leadership is about, and how to lead."+
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q394607][Agnes Nixon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/09/nyregion/aids-message-subway-comic-strip-new-york-city-health-agency-teaches-about.html][1993/11/09/0648618]]) The woman with the answers, *the Agnes Nixon of* "/Decision/" -- soap-opera fans the world over know Agnes Nixon as the, uh, guiding light behind "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" -- is Ann Sternberg, a Health Department official who used to be an NBC News documentary producer.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220210][George Steinbrenner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/10/garden/clearing-a-path-as-a-restaurateur-from-busboy-to-empire-builder.html][1993/11/10/0648860]]) An outspoken Florentine who started as a busboy 13 years ago and popularized his interpretation of the fresh simple cuisine of his native Tuscany, he has been called *the George Steinbrenner of* /the restaurant world/, a man with a short fuse and little patience when things are not done his way.
147. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186652][Gilbert du Motier]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/13/opinion/l-when-lafayette-gave-france-the-tricolor-951993.html][1993/11/13/0649607]]) In the months following the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, Marie Joseph Yves Gilbert du Motier, *the Marquis de Lafayette of* American fame, was commander of the Garde Nationale and perhaps the most powerful man in Paris.+
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93188][Errol Flynn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/16/world/georgian-fighter-wields-guns-money-and-charm.html][1993/11/16/0650428]]) Their leader is Jaba Ioseliani, who is often described as charming and charismatic -- *the Errol Flynn of* /Georgia/, in one Westerner's words.
149. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9640][Lyndon B. Johnson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/18/us/the-free-trade-accord-news-analysis-a-high-stakes-gamble-that-paid-off.html][1993/11/18/0650652]]) He looked not like Jimmy Carter, tripping and slipping in his relations with Congress, but like *the Lyndon B. Johnson of* 1964 and 1965: relentless and resourceful, a fighter and not a fumbler.+
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9640][Lyndon B. Johnson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/18/nyregion/news-summary-762393.html][1993/11/18/0650761]]) A1  SHOWING PRESIDENTIAL METTLE  News analysis: In the fight for the trade pact, President Clinton looked like *the Lyndon B. Johnson of* 1964 and 1965: relentless and resourceful, a fighter and not a fumbler.+
151. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9640][Lyndon B. Johnson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/18/us/the-free-trade-accord-news-analysis-a-high-stakes-gamble-that-paid-off.html][1993/11/18/0650793]]) He looked not like Jimmy Carter, tripping and slipping in his relations with Congress, but like *the Lyndon B. Johnson of* 1964 and 1965: relentless and resourceful, a fighter and not a fumbler.+
152. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339][Johann Sebastian Bach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/arts/recordings-view-an-antidote-to-bach-no-just-an-alternative.html][1993/11/21/0651259]]) This scoreless listener cannot vouch for the look of the music, but the lovely, rich sound of the concertos on these disks fits the composer's ideal to a T. And however this esthetic may have conflicted with Bach's, Heinichen's concertos, at least in their externals, recall *the Bach of* the "Brandenburg" Concertos and the orchestral suites, especially his tendency to blur the distinctions between the two forms.+
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/nyregion/theater-recounting-the-rage-at-aids.html][1993/11/21/0651362]]) Kim, pronouncing herself "*the Willie Horton of* /AIDS/," a strained analogy, denies that she is fighting homosexuals.
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001][Mahatma Gandhi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/magazine/the-dalai-lama.html][1993/11/28/0652872]]) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., *the Mahatma Gandhi of* /this political moment/.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/02/garden/offstage-with-marcel-marceau-sounding-a-legacy-of-silence.html][1993/12/02/0653379]]) "I think I'm *the Picasso of* /mime/," Marcel Marceau said between rehearsals for his new show, at the Espace Pierre Cardin off the Champs-Elysees.
156. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37327][Samuel Beckett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/travel/the-west-end-sparkles-again.html][1993/12/05/0653816]]) Back in 1955, an unknown avant-garde dramatist, *the Samuel Beckett of* "Waiting for Godot," was greeted with yells of "We're being conned!"+
157. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/weekinreview/ideas-trends-a-snowball-effect-lights-galore-and-more-and-more.html][1993/12/05/0653850]]) There are major characters but no heroes in this antiromance of 1907 in Battle Creek, Mich., where Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, *the Edison of* /clean living/, presides over pilgrims who hope to escape the ills and smells that flesh is heir to.+ (D)
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1801942][Leon Lett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/07/sports/pro-football-jets-begin-to-pick-up-the-pieces-after-the-loss-to-colts.html][1993/12/07/0654409]]) Malamala said he was feeling like "*the Leon Lett of* /the New York Jets/" following the game.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313776][George Wallace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/09/business/clinton-proposes-tough-new-rules-on-bias-by-banks.html][1993/12/09/0654795]]) I would call them *the George Wallace of* /C.R.A./
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82464][Dorian Gray]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/10/movies/review-film-it-s-wayne-and-garth-schwinging-once-again.html][1993/12/10/0654992]]) Also on hand is Aerosmith, *the Dorian Gray of* /rock bands/, to serve the same purpose Alice Cooper did in the first film.
161. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/16/garden/parent-child.html][1993/12/16/0656351]]) Helpful Techniques to Ease *the Sting of* 'No'+
162. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23380][Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/arts/review-art-lucian-freud-the-self-exposed.html][1993/12/17/0656445]]) No wonder the English critic Herbert Read called the young Mr. Freud "*the Ingres of* /Existentialism/."+ (D)
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23380][Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/arts/review-art-lucian-freud-the-self-exposed.html][1993/12/17/0656446]]) No wonder the English critic Herbert Read called the young Mr. Freud "*the Ingres of* /Existentialism/."
164. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21517385][Walter Keeping]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/movies/ok-says-anthony-hopkins-more-mr-nice-guy.html][1993/12/19/0656782]]) An Uncivil War Over *the Keeping of* Grant's Tomb+
165. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455401][Lloyd Bentsen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/28/us/washington-work-bentsen-beltway-insider-now-fights-notion-that-he-s-loop.html][1993/12/28/0658772]]) The Lloyd Bentsen basking in the glow of the trade pact's passage appears to be a far cry from *the Lloyd Bentsen of* last summer.+
166. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/29/nyregion/executive-buys-11-million-island-haven.html][1993/12/29/0658931]]) The acquisition was the latest chapter in the saga of an island that local environmentalists have described as Long Island's Yosemite Valley, *the Mona Lisa of* the East End, and one of the few remaining natural jewels in an area that many say has been tainted by overdevelopment.+
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83338][Robin Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/30/garden/in-the-creative-process-with-tom-robbins-perfect-sentences-imperfect-universe.html][1993/12/30/0659117]]) In person, he is *the Robin Williams of* /literary interviews/, albeit more soft-spoken, with a bit of Southern drawl from childhood still clinging to his speech.

** 1994
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807][Ed Sullivan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/02/weekinreview/the-world-christopher-spreads-the-limelight-around.html][1994/01/02/0659619]]) Does he become *the Ed Sullivan of* /foreign policy/, managing a really good show but enjoying no stardom himself?
2. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317441][Fish]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/02/nyregion/news-summary-745936.html][1994/01/02/0659659]]) Governor's Quest for *the Fish of* Memory+
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79015][Clark Kent]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/06/nyregion/news-summary-783773.html][1994/01/06/0660258]]) C1  At home with Robert Wilson: *the Clark Kent of* /modern theater/.
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5916408][Houston Branch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/06/books/9-writers-get-105000-each-to-help-promote-literature.html][1994/01/06/0660367]]) With *the Houston Branch of* the Asia Society, he will coordinate four annual public readings and discussions on the cultures of South Asia.+
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244441][Pete Seeger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/07/arts/sounds-around-town-803332.html][1994/01/07/0660595]]) Ladino, one of the three major Jewish languages, has produced a rich and extensive repertory of Judeo-Spanish songs, many of which have been collected by Joseph Elias, who is regarded as *the Pete Seeger of* /Ladino music/.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/09/nyregion/sorting-myth-from-reality-was-barnum-wronged.html][1994/01/09/0660857]]) Barnum was basically a great showman, Mr. Pelton said, a master of advertising -- a Yale professor once called him *the Shakespeare of* /advertising/ -- and of crowd psychology.
7. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192707][Charles Barkley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/10/sports/figure-skating-harding-talented-but-troubled-champion-going-for-bigger-title.html][1994/01/10/0661248]]) "I'm kind of like *the Charles Barkley of* figure skating.+
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192707][Charles Barkley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/10/sports/figure-skating-harding-talented-but-troubled-champion-going-for-bigger-title.html][1994/01/10/0661248]]) Once she caught her breath, which wasn't easy given a hacking attack of asthma, Tonya Harding called herself *the Charles Barkley of* /figure skating/ late Saturday night, then proceeded to verbally slam-dunk her competition at the coming Winter Olympics.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5577][Salvador Dalí]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/16/arts/when-the-kult-of-the-kustomized-kar-was-king.html][1994/01/16/0662187]]) "He's *the Salvador Dali of* /the movement/," he wrote, "a surrealist in his designs, a showman by temperament, a prankster."
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192707][Charles Barkley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/16/weekinreview/figure-skating-gets-rough-fairy-tales-on-ice-and-horror-stories-off-it.html][1994/01/16/0662389]]) When Miss Harding, who has described herself as *the Charles Barkley of* /skating/, told reporters, "If anybody wanted to beat Nancy it was me," the wording sounded a little strange.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434][Ernest Hemingway]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/20/books/books-of-the-times-a-toast-to-love-and-a-literary-family.html][1994/01/20/0663246]]) Now called *the Hemingway of* /Westchester/, he has been paid an advance of $225,000 to write a wartime memoir, to be titled "The Partisan."
12. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5085828][Charlotte Anderson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/business/the-executive-computer-this-little-scanner-just-knows-that-it-can.html][1994/01/23/0663907]]) "It's one of the indispensible items on my desk," said David Dahlberg, whose wife is *the Charlotte Anderson of* Charlotte Anderson Design, an advertising and graphic design firm in Bountiful, Utah.+
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716116][Tony Granato]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/28/sports/hockey-messier-beats-the-clock-in-overtime.html][1994/01/28/0665035]]) Just nine seconds before Messier's goal, Tony Amonte of the Rangers had a chance to win the game on a penalty shot, awarded because *the Tony Granato of* the Kings jumped off the bench to try to stop a three-on-two Ranger rush.+
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1827287][Lionel Trilling]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/28/sports/figure-skating-but-they-re-all-so-so-you-know-common.html][1994/01/28/0665094]]) Marv Levy, *the Lionel Trilling of* /coaches/, will probably be offered an endowed chair at Columbia when he retires.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q927916][Jim Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/29/sports/sports-of-the-times-a-cookie-that-never-crumbled.html][1994/01/29/0665224]]) "Cookie was *the Jim Brown of* /the American Football League/; he was the icon of the league," said Booker Edgerson, a member of the Bills 1964 championship team and a 10-year veteran.
16. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151972][Josephine Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/30/books/an-american-from-paris.html][1994/01/30/0665590]]) In the glare, we often lose sight of the poor unhappy black child who reinvented herself as a legend in her own lifetime -- *the Josephine Baker of* previous biographies and memoirs.+
17. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7371][Federico Fellini]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/01/style/review-fashion-in-paris-men-s-wear-visits-the-circus.html][1994/02/01/0665950]]) Yohji Yamamoto and Ms. Kawakubo evoked *the Federico Fellini of* "La Strada," showing men's wear in fun-house-mirror proportions in a circus-like setting.+
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/04/movies/critic-s-notebook-when-hollywood-could-be-naughty.html][1994/02/04/0666537]]) The terrors of the code, as overseen by Joseph Breen (who was nicknamed "*the Hitler of* /Hollywood/" in some quarters), went beyond the letter of the document and brought about a more generalized moral purge.
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230681][Jean Seberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/04/movies/reviews-film-writer-tries-a-lot-of-sex-to-see-if-it-aids-creativity.html][1994/02/04/0666545]]) The city of Paris, to which its characters refer continually, is the mythical mecca of erotic transcendence and literary genius whose spirit has infused everyone from Ernest Hemingway to *the Jean Seberg of* "Breathless."+
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82925][Joseph Conrad]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/06/books/reader-by-reader-and-town-by-town-a-new-novelist-builds-a-following.html][1994/02/06/0667236]]) "Mark Richard may be called *the Joseph Conrad of* /our day/," she says.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/06/books/he-steals-from-the-rich-and-gives-to-the-hicks.html][1994/02/06/0667238]]) MS. CHUTE'S device is to make Lloyd *the Robin Hood of* /Egypt/.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73823][Dirty Harry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/06/books/the-don-of-duke.html][1994/02/06/0667248]]) As a prelude to his encounter with Old Possum, *the Dirty Harry of* /contemporary critical theory/ (as The Village Voice has memorably called him) offers us an autobiographical "confession."
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171454][Oral Roberts]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/08/science/scientist-at-work-william-castelli-preaching-the-gospel-of-healthy-hearts.html][1994/02/08/0667638]]) One of his rare detractors paid him a backhanded compliment by dubbing him "*the Oral Roberts of* /prevention/."
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5605637][Greg Gumbel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/11/sports/tv-sports-tabloid-tv-chronicles-how-cheap-is-talk.html][1994/02/11/0668171]]) Hallvard Flatland, *the Greg Gumbel of* /Norwegian television/, said: "Our main interests are cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497827][Sam Walton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/13/business/it-s-a-business-no-it-s-a-religion.html][1994/02/13/0668494]]) A businessman as well as a physician, he has been called *the Sam Walton of* /heart surgery/.
26. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182011][Antonio Stradivari]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/20/sports/baseball-notebook-94-rockies-don-t-need-scorecard-for-themselves.html][1994/02/20/0670039]]) "It was a Tourte, *the Stradivarius of* bows," Freeman said.+
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2895601][Ben Wright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/21/sports/winter-olympics-tv-sports-gumbel-less-than-just-a-pretty-face.html][1994/02/21/0670187]]) Yet Saturday's cross-country dispatch from the Nordic combined competition by Phil Liggett, *the Ben Wright of* /the snow/, and Jeff Hastings, sparkled with action and emotion.
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179497][Oliver Stone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/22/arts/classical-music-in-review-264156.html][1994/02/22/0670357]]) It is the sort of effect that has made Mr. Svetlanov an unquestioned master of overpowering orchestral spectacle, *the Oliver Stone of* /conductors/.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3178736][Joe Carter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/23/sports/baseball-mattingly-sticks-with-the-here-and-now.html][1994/02/23/0670493]]) He has dreamed about being *the Joe Carter of* /1994/ before there was a Joe Carter of 1993.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q706462][Duane Hanson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/27/arts/art-view-is-duane-hanson-the-phidias-of-our-time.html][1994/02/27/0671076]]) Phidias was *the Duane Hanson of* /his day/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177302][Phidias]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/27/arts/art-view-is-duane-hanson-the-phidias-of-our-time.html][1994/02/27/0671076]])                 Is Duane Hanson *the Phidias of* /Our Time/?
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/04/movies/review-film-antihero-and-rich-girl-amok-on-a-freeway.html][1994/03/04/0672349]]) Unbeknownst to Jack until it's too late, his hostage, Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson), happens to be the only daughter of a publicity-hungry billionaire (Ray Wise) known as "*the Donald Trump of* /California/."
33. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4583][Anne Frank]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/06/books/a-little-girl-s-war.html][1994/03/06/0672558]]) But say "*the Anne Frank of* Sarajevo," and most of us know who you mean.+
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4583][Anne Frank]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/06/books/a-little-girl-s-war.html][1994/03/06/0672558]]) If only the French publishers of "Zlata's Diary" had never thought or spoken the phrase "*the Anne Frank of* /Sarajevo/"!
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3194742][Keith Hernandez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/06/sports/baseball-notebook-long-tumble-puts-a-s-in-unfamiliar-position.html][1994/03/06/0672899]]) "He was *the Keith Hernandez of* /this team/," Darling said, calling on his days with the Mets for an analogy.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/09/business/russians-newest-space-adventure-cyberspace.html][1994/03/09/0673268]]) Leading businessmen like Konstantin Boravoi, who is known as *the Ross Perot of* /Russia/, have local E-mail addresses.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/sports/golf-daly-draws-a-crowd-and-puts-on-a-display.html][1994/03/11/0673751]]) Now comes *the Babe Ruth of* /golf/, John Daly.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5480][Bart Simpson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/12/opinion/public-private-pols-and-press-and-palaver.html][1994/03/12/0673909]]) But take a healthy dose of the man once characterized as *the Bart Simpson of* /the Senate/, who has elevated the sustained whine to a rhetorical form.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177984][Peter Sellers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/nyregion/hold-on-to-that-shot-kubrick-said.html][1994/03/13/0674080]]) Mr. Kubrick told him, "I think you're becoming *the Peter Sellers of* /the cutting room/," and encouraged him to direct.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1340213][Garry Trudeau]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/16/us/silicon-valley-schools-set-technical-standard.html][1994/03/16/0674686]]) Now, Mr. Miller said, the boy had become *the Garry Trudeau of* /English class/, using software that lets him write his essays as comic strips.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/16/books/book-notes-479365.html][1994/03/16/0674767]]) "Who is *the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/?"
42. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9446][Pete Sampras]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/19/sports/tennis-sampras-still-going-and-agassi-on-the-rise.html][1994/03/19/0675318]]) That's maybe the difference between now and *the Pete Sampras of* a few years ago."+
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177302][Phidias]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/arts/l-duane-hanson-there-is-magic-happening-502308.html][1994/03/20/0675505]]) In Michael Kimmelman's essay "Is Duane Hanson *the Phidias of* /Our Time/?"
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192707][Charles Barkley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/22/sports/ncaa-tournament-for-marquette-misfits-aren-t-miscast.html][1994/03/22/0676038]]) Mostly recruited only by Big Ten Conference schools, he has been dubbed *the Charles Barkley of* /Marquette's conference/, the Great Midwest.
45. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313992][David Lee Roth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/24/arts/the-pop-life-560669.html][1994/03/24/0676364]]) How does *the David Lee Roth of* the 1990's compare with the David Lee Roth of the early 1980's?+
46. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313992][David Lee Roth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/24/arts/the-pop-life-560669.html][1994/03/24/0676364]]) How does the David Lee Roth of the 1990's compare with *the David Lee Roth of* the early 1980's?+
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/27/weekinreview/the-nation-how-houston-s-angry-din-still-haunts-republicans.html][1994/03/27/0677001]]) Robert Schmuhl, chairman of the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, said Houston had become *the Willie Horton of* /the 1992 campaign/.
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5686][Charles Dickens]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/03/books/the-bowery-sphinx-and-other-irishmen.html][1994/04/03/0678070]]) Mr. Quinn's narrative method is the usual one for novels described as sweeping or panoramic, one that derives ultimately, I suppose, from *the Dickens of* "Our Mutual Friend" and "Bleak House": we ride along on the consciousness of one character after another, each for a few pages, returning frequently to some and less frequently to others, building little blocks of story from shifting points of view.+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49004][Patrick Swayze]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/03/theater/dance-view-macmillan-s-dances-distill-carousel-s-sexuality.html][1994/04/03/0678117]]) As the Fairground Boy, Jon Marshall Sharp (late of "The Red Shoes") sports a bare torso under a black leather vest and has the right cheekbones to be *the Patrick Swayze of* /this "Carousel."/
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5488961][Frank Perdue]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/22/nyregion/a-free-spirit-with-fiscal-clout.html][1994/04/22/0682162]]) Not from the man who called Edward I. Koch "*the Frank Perdue of* /New York City/" when he was running against the former Mayor in the 1985 Democratic primary.
51. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9458][Muhammad]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/24/magazine/about-men-my-conversation.html][1994/04/24/0682541]]) So I moved to New York and became an orthodox Muslim in the manner all converts do: I declared before Muslim witnesses my belief in Allah and my faith that *the Prophet Muhammad of* Arabia was His very last messenger.+
52. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/28/us/the-37th-president-summing-it-up-in-the-end-the-words-were-those-he-sought.html][1994/04/28/0683587]]) There have been a few primal screams of rage at the red-baiting Nixon, *the Nixon of* the enemies list, the Nixon who carried the war into Cambodia, the foul-mouthed Nixon of the Watergate tapes.+
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/28/movies/discovering-a-film-idol-s-feet-of-clay.html][1994/04/28/0683662]]) "His death at the age of 35 has turned him into *the James Dean of* /the 1990's/," proclaimed Paris Match, one of numerous magazines that carried his photograph on its cover.
54. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/01/travel/sherlock-holmes-inc.html][1994/05/01/0684057]]) As "The Final Problem" narrated it, Holmes had been pursued to the Bernese Oberland by *the Napoleon of* Crime, the fiendish Professor Moriarty, and both died when, locked in ferocious struggle, they fell into the churning abyss of the Reichenbach Falls.+
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/01/travel/sherlock-holmes-inc.html][1994/05/01/0684057]]) The inevitable memorial tablet, in English, at the lower terminal of the cableway reads: "Across this 'dreadful cauldron' occurred the culminating event in the career of Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, when on May 4, 1891, he vanquished Prof. Moriarty, *the Napoleon of* /Crime/.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441][Emily Dickinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/01/theater/theater-fighting-dragons-writing-musicals.html][1994/05/01/0684171]]) A painter, he was *the Emily Dickinson of* /the art world/.
57. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/01/weekinreview/the-world-mr-clinton-will-see-you-but-he-won-t-meet-you.html][1994/05/01/0684269]]) And *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet rated no more than a Presidential "drop by."+
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41042][Harold Pinter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/02/arts/review-ballet-elevated-passion-and-sexual-repression.html][1994/05/02/0684570]]) In earlier years, he was *the Harold Pinter of* /dance/, largely because what he left unsaid in his studies of relationships was as important as what he expressed directly.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535129][Sol Hurok]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/08/business/sound-bytes-a-guide-in-big-blue-country.html][1994/05/08/0685821]]) SAM ALBERT may be the quintessential schmoozer and self-promoter, a computer management consultant who calls himself "*the Sol Hurok of* /the information systems business/."
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16977][Deng Xiaoping]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/08/business/unlikely-reformer-coaxes-india-toward-a-market-economy.html][1994/05/08/0685830]]) As a veteran of the Congress Party governments led by Mr. Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, and grandson, Rajiv Gandhi, the 72-year-old Mr. Rao has become, in effect, *the Deng Xiaoping of* /India/ -- an aging party leader who, in his sunset years, has abandoned many, if not all, of the economic precepts that had guided earlier governments, challenging not only the old orthodoxies but an entrenched network of vested interests that had built up under the old system.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452267][Aldrich Ames]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/08/opinion/journal-the-real-paula-jones.html][1994/05/08/0685978]]) Mr. Brock's role in the Paula Jones affair is curious indeed, so much so that some might take him for a Clinton mole in the conservative camp -- *the Aldrich Ames of* /The American Spectator/.
62. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4112334][Virginia Clinton Kelley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/08/books/the-woman-before-hillary.html][1994/05/08/0686021]]) Yet *the Virginia Kelley of* "Leading With My Heart" is the quintessence of the self-delighting extrovert, one who genuinely likes people: "I've always enjoyed talking with strangers -- the more different they are, the better I like them"; "I can truthfully say that I have never felt one pang of jealousy toward anybody in my life, and that attitude started when I was a girl."+
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187850][Mathew Brady]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/08/arts/film-the-man-who-took-pictures-of-the-movies.html][1994/05/08/0686097]]) In 75 films, Muky became *the Mathew Brady of* /New York's movie panorama/, of neo-realism transplanted from postwar Europe.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4911006][Bill Stern]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/10/sports/tv-sports-score-it-3-tko-s-for-lack-of-punch.html][1994/05/10/0686448]]) Frazier is *the Bill Stern of* /basketball analysis/, an embellisher blindly dishing and swishing his Lesser Word Power in 20 Minutes approach to broadcasting.
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q959635][Andrew Young]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/11/garden/at-lunch-with-andrew-young-a-preacher-had-a-friend-called-martin.html][1994/05/11/0686633]]) In an interview, David Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the civil rights movement, said of Mr. Young's book, "To me, the degree to which *the Andrew Young of* 1967, 1968 has changed isn't addressed in there."+
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/13/sports/sports-of-the-times-scary-idea-mason-more-assertive.html][1994/05/13/0687037]]) Once upon a time, Mason could have been *the Magic Johnson of* /Turkey or Venezuela/, a very large man with superior open-court dribbling.
67. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484772][Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/17/sports/hockey-anderson-unable-to-shake-past-tense.html][1994/05/17/0687936]]) But he has not gone to the net like *the Anderson of* .+
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27804586][Blaine Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/22/style/feet-first-into-the-clubs.html][1994/05/22/0688818]]) (If there is a club worth going to, Mr. McGrath, *the Blaine Trump of* /lower Manhattan/, is on its permanent guest list.)
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156395][Peter Lynch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/22/business/the-kids-managing-america-s-money.html][1994/05/22/0688898]]) One is William H. Gross, 50, managing director of the Pacific Investment Management Company and sometimes called *the Peter Lynch of* /the bond business/.
70. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/24/books/books-of-the-times-in-the-nixon-white-house-day-by-day.html][1994/05/24/0689341]]) Forgotten (or at least played down) was the Other Nixon, *the Nixon of* Watergate and the Cambodia bombings, the Nixon who kept an enemies list and turned red-baiting into a ferocious campaign tactic.+
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190631][Bette Midler]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/24/movies/reviews-television-once-again-rashomon-meets-the-menendezes.html][1994/05/24/0689343]]) At one point, Erik's lawyer, Leslie Abramson, *the Bette Midler of* /the criminal courtroom/, stuck tacks into the photograph of a naked child's torso for shamelessly vivid illustration.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/25/nyregion/about-new-york-an-archive-of-louis-and-jazz.html][1994/05/25/0689494]]) He was the natural, *the Babe Ruth of* /jazz/, and before the word crossover had any meaning, he was one of very few black men who were listened to or watched by whites in an America so much whiter than it is now.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170596][T. E. Lawrence]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/29/arts/step-up-folks-check-it-out-nationhood.html][1994/05/29/0690176]]) If Istanbul is *the T. E. Lawrence of* /world capitals/, sword unsheathed and racing on horseback toward another clash with history, then Washington is Indiana Jones -- handsome and dashing in its porkpie hat and bullwhip, but only playing a part.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318399][Anthony Trollope]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/books/american-sicko.html][1994/06/05/0691458]]) If Raymond Carver, *the Anthony Trollope of* /American white trash/, had been just a little bit nuttier -- and was still alive and writing -- or if Stephen King could write at all, either one of them would be proud to produce something like "Pluto, Animal Lover."
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157191][Marcel Marceau]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/nyregion/on-sunday-better-schools-by-consensus-not-conflict.html][1994/06/05/0691809]]) Mr. Golden is *the Marcel Marceau of* /city politics/, gifted at uttering nothing while brightly demonstrating inclusiveness.
76. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210695][Mary Pierce]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/06/sports/tennis-a-savvy-sanchez-puts-a-stop-to-pierce.html][1994/06/06/0691973]]) She hadn't encountered any adversity at this event until today and seemed to revert to her old self -- *the Mary Pierce of* the vexed yelps and half-hearted swats at tough shots -- when she did.+
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42229][Mel Gibson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/08/arts/review-television-bohemians-of-boheme-reawaken-as-beatniks.html][1994/06/08/0692271]]) David Hobson, who I'm told is sometimes referred to as *the Mel Gibson of* /opera Down Under/, is a dashing Rodolfo, even managing to look meltingly sensitive in a black leather jacket.
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511][Richard Wagner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/08/theater/critic-s-notebook-new-project-from-director-of-les-atrides.html][1994/06/08/0692276]]) Still, the score is attractive, rather like Gounod's "Faust" mixed with *the Wagner of* "Tannhauser" and "Lohengrin."+
79. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6258846][John Stanley Beard]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/arts/art-tweaking-the-beard-of-the-maximum-leader.html][1994/06/12/0692890]]) Tweaking *the Beard of* the Maximum Leader+
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q342778][Pat Boone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/20/arts/in-performance-pop-449822.html][1994/06/20/0694707]]) If Vanilla Ice is *the Pat Boone of* /hip-hop/, watering down a vibrant black musical form to make it appeal to a generic pop audience, then G. Love is its Elvis Presley.
81. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/22/us/lesbianism-does-not-bar-child-custody-court-rules.html][1994/06/22/0694974]]) Overturning a lower court decision that had awarded custody of a lesbian's son to his grandmother, *the Virginia Court of* Appeals Unanimously ruled today that a person's homosexuality does not necessarily make that individual an unfit parent.+
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q945011][Norman Podhoretz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/26/books/from-a-wellspring-of-bitterness.html][1994/06/26/0695595]]) Edward Said thus becomes *the Norman Podhoretz of* /the Palestinians/.
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194280][Hugh Hefner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/26/movies/film-art-deco-meets-the-industrial-revolution.html][1994/06/26/0695640]]) THE FILM BEGINS IN Tibet, where Cranston is, in the words of Mr. Baldwin, "like *the Hugh Hefner of* /Tibet/."
84. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/26/us/grandmother-appealing-decision-giving-lesbian-custody-of-son.html][1994/06/26/0695951]]) Sharon L. Bottoms, the lesbian mother who had expected to take her 2-year-old home after *the Virginia Court of* Appeals ruled in her favor, may now have to wait weeks or even years because of an appeal by her mother.+
85. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1048][Julius Caesar]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/world/i-will-not-make-war-i-must-not-do-it.html][1994/06/27/0696071]]) The text has some lively spots, but *the Caesar of* historical reality was different from that of the play.+
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1545][Cyndi Lauper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/30/garden/trying-to-smoke-with-christopher-buckley-more-huffing-than-puffing.html][1994/06/30/0696637]]) Discussing his new novel, "Thank You for Smoking," Christopher Buckley declares himself "*the Cyndi Lauper of* /American letters/ -- I just want to have fun."
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/sports/olympic-festival-team-handball-searches-for-stars-and-olympic-gold.html][1994/07/05/0697585]]) If Jones was *the Michael Jordan of* /her time/, scoring at will, Cain, 33, is the Magic Johnson of hers.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/sports/olympic-festival-team-handball-searches-for-stars-and-olympic-gold.html][1994/07/05/0697585]]) If Jones was the Michael Jordan of her time, scoring at will, Cain, 33, is *the Magic Johnson of* /hers/.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/sports/world-cup-94-point-proved-hearts-heavy-it-s-time-to-go-home.html][1994/07/05/0697643]]) "Romario is the Michael Jordan of soccer and Bebeto is *the Magic Johnson of* /soccer/," said American defender Paul Caligiuri.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/05/sports/world-cup-94-point-proved-hearts-heavy-it-s-time-to-go-home.html][1994/07/05/0697643]]) "Romario is *the Michael Jordan of* /soccer/ and Bebeto is the Magic Johnson of soccer," said American defender Paul Caligiuri.
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178628][Paolo Rossi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/06/sports/sports-of-the-times-roberto-baggio-stops-ugly-trip-back-home.html][1994/07/06/0697823]]) "I am hoping to be *the Paolo Rossi of* /this World Cup/," Baggio had said, referring to the hero of the 1982 World Cup championship.
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102341][Farrah Fawcett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/style/wicked-fashion-sitcom-delicious-pity-it-s-fiction.html][1994/07/10/0698493]]) Much of the delight in the 48-year-old Ms. Lumley, a familiar actress in Britain, comes from the fact that she has played a succession of cool, glamorous, upper-class women, including a James Bond girl in the film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and a secret agent in "The New Avengers," a 1976 British television series that made her a sex symbol, *the Farrah Fawcett of* /public-school boys/.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41117][Kim Il-sung]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/obituaries/death-leader-kim-il-sung-enigmatic-great-leader-north-korea-for-5-decades-dies.html][1994/07/10/0698584]]) There was *the Kim Il Sung of* North Korean myth, whose likeness dominates Pyongyang and every town square in the form of 30,000 statues, the man who was lionized in song as the "sun of the country" for single-handedly defeating two enemies in one generation: Japan and the United States.+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134262][Tennessee Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/17/theater/hey-kids-let-s-put-on-a-show.html][1994/07/17/0699777]]) I think Beth Henley is *the Tennessee Williams of* /this generation/ with this berserk edge."
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333405][Perry Como]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/17/nyregion/about-long-island-for-johnny-maestro-the-music-never-stopped.html][1994/07/17/0699904]]) He's *the Perry Como of* /rock-and-roll/."
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315808][Neil Simon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/17/nyregion/theater-theater-s-lively-summer-season.html][1994/07/17/0699913]]) Warren Kliewer, its artistic director, has on a tentative September schedule "The Truth," a vintage comedy by Clyde Fitch, who has been variously called the American Oscar Wilde and *the Neil Simon of* /the 19th century/.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312081][Gary Busey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/17/nyregion/confessions-of-an-in-line-commuter.html][1994/07/17/0699963]]) (I like to think of myself as *the Gary Busey of* /in-line skating/, since Mr. Busey is still vehemently opposed to wearing a helmet even after having applied his head firmly to the pavement in a motorcycle accident.)
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160278][John D. Rockefeller]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/18/us/undercover-ge-special-report-fbi-inquiry-jet-engines-new-jolt-company-image.html][1994/07/18/0700205]]) called him "*the John D. Rockefeller of* /whistle-blowers/."
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1618][Charles Lindbergh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/20/us/moon-rural-ohio-armstrong-quietly-lives-his-own-dark-side-moon.html][1994/07/20/0700647]]) He could be *the Charles Lindbergh of* /this era/."
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363383][Armand Hammer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/24/sports/goodwill-games-the-goodwill-games-begin-now-let-the-fans-show-up.html][1994/07/24/0701723]]) But such conspicuous spending only enhances Turner's image here as *the Armand Hammer of* /post-Communist Russia/ -- the most ubiquitous, best-connected American businessman.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102462][James Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/28/movies/hollywood-closing-out-a-summer-of-the-unexpected.html][1994/07/28/0702482]]) He's *the Jimmy Stewart of* /our generation/."
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7648747][Susanne Bartsch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/style/you-weren-t-at-the-men-s-shows.html][1994/07/31/0703085]]) John Bartlett is becoming *the Susanne Bartsch of* /the men's wear industry/.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/31/sports/sports-of-the-times-with-induction-a-writer-remains-a-pioneer.html][1994/07/31/0703200]]) In many ways, Wendell Smith was *the Jackie Robinson of* /sports journalism/.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357444][Lou Gehrig]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/04/sports/pro-football-on-loan-from-olympus-marino-plans-new-ascent.html][1994/08/04/0704092]]) Dan Marino, *the Lou Gehrig of* /quarterbacks/, had surely been dipped in the waters of the river Styx.
105. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290237][Joshua Steiner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/04/opinion/journal-a-blip-on-the-screen.html][1994/08/04/0704115]]) "You're the kind of person we need involved in public service," said Mr. Kerry, rightly, in the process of praising *the Joshua Steiner of* the diaries.+
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308441][Eppie Lederer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/07/education/end-paper-ode-to-academic-nastiness.html][1994/08/07/0704518]]) Daniel S. Hamermesh, a professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin who has published several articles on academic etiquette and jokingly calls himself *the Ann Landers of* /higher education/, says he thinks young professors "may be even meaner than their predecessors because they grew up in the 'Me Generation,' believing that virtually everything is due them."
107. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319072][Rush Limbaugh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/nyregion/metro-digest-887820.html][1994/08/08/0704950]]) Three years after Connecticut adopted an income tax, Tom Scott, *the Rush Limbaugh of* /state politics/, has been on a mission to foment a tax revolt.+
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319072][Rush Limbaugh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/nyregion/call-in-host-calls-out-for-anti-tax-ballot-spot.html][1994/08/08/0704966]]) Three years after Connecticut adopted an income tax, Tom Scott, *the Rush Limbaugh of* /state politics/, says lingering resentment over that move could make him a serious candidate for governor.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/obituaries/jean-dominique-fratoni-casino-owner-71.html][1994/08/12/0705713]]) The press called Mr. Fratoni *the Napoleon of* /the green tables/; to friends in politics and in the milieu, as the Riviera's criminal underground is known, he was Jean-Do.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39464][Pol Pot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-hidden-horror.html][1994/08/12/0705807]]) He concluded that President Suharto was "*the Pol Pot of* /East Timor/."
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3701575][David Gergen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/sports/baseball-howe-s-pinstripes-have-the-union-label.html][1994/08/14/0706342]]) Fifteen days ago, when the Players Association set last Friday as its strike date, silent Steve Howe suddenly turned into *the David Gergen of* /the Yankees/.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1126679][The Scarlet Pimpernel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/16/world/yesterday-s-sound-and-fury.html][1994/08/16/0706546]]) Though he came to personify terrorism in the 1970's, "Carlos the Jackal" spent most of the last decade drinking whisky in an apartment in downtown Damascus, living off his reputation as *the Scarlet Pimpernel of* /international terrorism/, intelligence officials said.
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505423][Jerry Rice]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/sports/pro-football-no-moore-but-no-shift-in-jets-offensive-style.html][1994/08/19/0707104]]) Moore was to be *the Jerry Rice of* /the Jets' sophisticated 49ers-style attack this season/.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310819][Johnny Carson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/21/business/sound-bytes-three-careers-and-counting.html][1994/08/21/0707417]]) CALL Prof. John J. Donovan *the Johnny Carson of* /the training circuit/.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212762][Burt Bacharach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/28/arts/classical-view-listening-to-prozac-er-mozart.html][1994/08/28/0708660]]) Someone -- often a contemporary composer trying to address the masses -- is always remarking with approval that Mozart tailored his music for particular occasions, that he was just a working stiff, *the Burt Bacharach of* /his day/.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163042][David Duke]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/us/in-virginia-a-child-s-illness-quiets-a-congressional-campaign.html][1994/08/29/0709090]]) Ms. Reiley at one point called Mr. McSlarrow "*the David Duke of* /Northern Virginia/," a reference to the white supremacist who lost a 1990 race in Louisiana for the United States Senate.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/05/business/rethinking-a-model-incentive-plan.html][1994/09/05/0710383]]) Lawrence O. Selhorst, chairman and chief executive of the American Spring Wire Corporation and one of several new board members recruited by Mr. Hastings, admiringly calls Lincoln's legendary compensation system "*the Babe Ruth of* /incentive programs/."
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51566][Spike Lee]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/10/nyregion/plenty-tennis-but-dearth-movie-stars-celebrity-shortage-takes-some-glitter-this.html][1994/09/10/0711111]]) Alan King, *the Spike Lee of* /tennis/, who attends nearly every day, was in his usual box.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/11/arts/the-annotated-calendar-television.html][1994/09/11/0711230]]) Kevin Smith, *the Cinderella of* /this year's Sundance festival/, shot this black-and-white movie in the New Jersey store where he himself worked.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935][Isaac Newton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/18/books/famous-for-being-einstein.html][1994/09/18/0712633]]) Before then, Einstein was already esteemed by many physicists as *the Newton of* /the 20th century/.
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117012][Yoko Ono]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/arts/pop-review-courtney-love-and-hole-look-back-in-anger.html][1994/09/23/0713760]]) But Ms. Love won't be *the Yoko Ono of* /alternative rock/, mourning with the fans.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/opinion/l-a-civil-rights-victory-in-old-new-york-328537.html][1994/09/23/0713837]]) In 1991 four sixth-grade girls in the Museum of the City of New York's Wednesday afternoon history club researched this event in the life of Elizabeth Jennings, whom they called *the Rosa Parks of* /her time/, and presented their play, "Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Her Rights" at the museum's first history fair.
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472547][David Souter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/magazine/justice-souter-emerges.html][1994/09/25/0714035]]) Nowadays, Chuck Douglas characterizes *the David Souter of* the mid-1980's as a "status quo, stare decisis conservative."+
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1126679][The Scarlet Pimpernel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/weekinreview/the-world-diplomatic-subcontracting-s-fine-if-you-get-good-help.html][1994/09/25/0714306]]) "He's become *the Scarlet Pimpernel of* /American foreign policy/, popping up to solve impossible crises," said Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy.
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43270][Pieter Brueghel the Elder]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/27/movies/anger-and-obsession-the-life-of-robert-crumb.html][1994/09/27/0714747]]) The art critic Robert Hughes calls Mr. Crumb "*the Bruegel of* /the 20th century/."
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167856][James Fenimore Cooper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/02/books/crime-mystery-megabashing-japan.html][1994/10/02/0715444]]) Tom Clancy is *the James Fenimore Cooper of* /his day/, which is to say, the most successful bad writer of his generation.
127. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/12/movies/film-review-professor-husband-and-wimp.html][1994/10/12/0717498]]) This is the harsh tale of an unloved man nicknamed by his class "*the Hitler of* the lower fifth" and "the Crock."+
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/12/movies/film-review-professor-husband-and-wimp.html][1994/10/12/0717519]]) This is the harsh tale of an unloved man nicknamed by his class "*the Hitler of* /the lower fifth/" and "the Crock."
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600273][Marshall Faulk]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/13/sports/pro-football-jets-notebook-expect-esiason-come-rain-or-pain.html][1994/10/13/0717778]]) He was *the Marshall Faulk of* /1990/."
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7245][Mark Twain]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/14/books/nobel-in-literature-goes-to-kenzaburo-oe-of-japan.html][1994/10/14/0717950]]) The influences on Mr. Oe's complex art range from Jean-Paul Sartre to *the Mark Twain of* "Huckleberry Finn."+
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2865105][Arthur Frommer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/23/nyregion/about-long-island-the-inquiring-interloper.html][1994/10/23/0719952]]) BECAUSE he has visited just about every unusual landmark and landscape Long Island has to offer, Bob Cammann has been dubbed *the Arthur Frommer of* /the Island/.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192218][Ted Bundy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/25/arts/what-rhymes-with-uh-plagiarism.html][1994/10/25/0720541]]) In the fall issue of The American Scholar, in an anguished, angry article titled "A Loss for Words: Plagiarism and Silence," Mr. Bowers has outlined his two-year quest to track down Mr. Sumner and put a stop to the man he calls "*the Ted Bundy of* /the poetry world/."
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44176][Hulk Hogan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/25/books/books-of-the-times-so-libby-should-i-see-the-movie.html][1994/10/25/0720551]]) Libby's cousin Andrew, an art director who's "so incredibly creative that, as my mother says, no one's holding their breath for grandchildren," opines that "David Mamet is *the Hulk Hogan of* /the American theater/ and that his word processor should be tested for steroids."
134. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703370][Denny McLain]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/26/sports/baseball-cone-over-key-in-close-cy-young-contest.html][1994/10/26/0720829]]) The closest race in league history was the tie between *the Denny McLain of* the Detroit Tigers and Mike Cuellar of the Orioles in 1969.+
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11132][Sandra Day O'Connor]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/26/garden/off-the-podium-with-rachael-worby-in-private-life-she-s-a-first-lady.html][1994/10/26/0720831]]) Her husband, 54, praises her "guts and courage" in overcoming tremendous obstacles, like the time a trumpet section walked out in protest when the conductor turned out to be a woman, and he eagerly calls her "*the Sandra Day O'Connor of* /the music world/."
136. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1743210][Robert Howard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27/business/is-howard-really-finkelstein-money-rides-on-it.html][1994/10/27/0720954]]) still cannot say whether *the Robert Howard of* Presstek is or is not the same Robert Howard who operated as Howard Finkelstein.+
137. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1743210][Robert Howard]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/27/business/is-howard-really-finkelstein-money-rides-on-it.html][1994/10/27/0720956]]) still cannot say whether *the Robert Howard of* Presstek is or is not the same Robert Howard who operated as Howard Finkelstein.+
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q617173][Brendan Suhr]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/30/sports/nba-94-95-on-pro-basketball-nba-takes-a-lock-instead-of-a-lockout.html][1994/10/30/0721907]]) Gary Bettman, *the Brendan Suhr of* /sports commissioners/, cut the power on the dawning of hockey.
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159115][Dan Majerle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/30/sports/nba-94-95-rockets-get-no-respect-but-they-re-the-best.html][1994/10/30/0721937]]) And *the Dan Majerle of* last season was a shadow of the Dan Majerle from the one before.+
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521145][Mario Cuomo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/02/nyregion/the-1994-campaign-mayor-out-of-state-giuliani-shows-party-loyalty.html][1994/11/02/0722421]]) Moments later, Mr. Martin, standing next to Mr. Giuliani, became momentarily nonplused when a television reporter asked him, "Does this embrace make you *the Mario Cuomo of* /Suffolk County politics/?"
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/02/sports/sports-of-the-times-air-time-live-from-chicago.html][1994/11/02/0722481]]) Jordan, of course, is *the Elvis of* /contemporary sports/, the epitome of the electronic marketing boom.
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q963129][Lawrence Taylor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/02/sports/sports-of-the-times-air-time-live-from-chicago.html][1994/11/02/0722481]]) Butkus was *the Lawrence Taylor of* /his time/.
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6214300][Joey Buttafuoco]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/06/nyregion/about-long-island-even-at-56-jay-black-continues-to-make-them-swoon.html][1994/11/06/0723309]]) I'm *the Joey Buttafuoco of* /the music world/."
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4009028][Vaughn Meader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/10/opinion/journal-on-the-bright-side.html][1994/11/10/0724557]]) A comedian on the verge of becoming *the Vaughn Meader of* /our time/ got a reprieve when the Bush son who most resembles Dad, George W., won.
145. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/12/world/so-friendly-chinese-and-christopher.html][1994/11/12/0724859]]) The two foreign policy committees in Congress will be headed by men who are sworn enemies of Beijing: Senator Jesse Helms, who favors independence for Taiwan and demonizes the Chinese military, and Representative Benjamin A. Gilman, who considers himself a close friend of *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet.+
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5709887][Heloise]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/books/little-guy-big-job.html][1994/11/13/0725000]]) WILLIAM MAYNE has a wonderful creation in Hob, a protective household spirit, usually invisible, who is *the Heloise of* /the unseen world/.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52651][Jesse Owens]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/obituaries/wilma-rudolph-star-of-the-1960-olympics-dies-at-54.html][1994/11/13/0725345]]) "She was *the Jesse Owens of* /women's track and field/, and like Jesse, she changed the sport for all time," he said.
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7328603][Richard Ravitch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/13/sports/baseball-notebook-meacham-paid-dues-on-way-to-new-job.html][1994/11/13/0725363]]) Ray Grebey was *the Richard Ravitch of* /the players' 50-day strike that season/.
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213626][Jesse James]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/14/nyregion/at-633-license-suspensions-the-top-scofflaw-is-arrested.html][1994/11/14/0725402]]) 1 suspect, Leroy Linen, 41, was in custody yesterday, facing a felony charge as *the Jesse James of* /Scofflaws/.
150. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4724][Le Corbusier]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/15/style/looking-back-all-the-bustle-over-retro.html][1994/11/15/0725647]]) Courreges was often called *the Corbusier of* /Paris couture/ when his career peaked in 1965.
151. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550629][Lyndon LaRouche]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/27/books/taking-the-measure-of-death.html][1994/11/27/0727747]]) He likens the writer Larry Kramer, a founder and then renouncer of Act Up, to "*the Lyndon LaRouche of* the gay movement, another member of some insane fringe" -- except "he usually is right."+
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240937][Jessye Norman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/27/nyregion/in-south-salem-a-pipe-organ-worthy-of-a-bach.html][1994/11/27/0727868]]) IT might be called *the Jessye Norman of* /pipe organs/, custom designed and fitted and possessed of a powerful pair of lungs.
153. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312697][Greg LeMond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/03/sports/cycling-lemond-finds-there-s-no-fuel-left.html][1994/12/03/0728891]]) I wouldn't be myself, *the Greg LeMond of* '85 or '86, where I just always felt great.+
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/03/opinion/observer-ease-in-tabloid-world.html][1994/12/03/0728921]]) Bosnia is *the Marcel Proust of* /news stories/.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9696][John F. Kennedy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/04/books/christmas-books-94-travel.html][1994/12/04/0729197]]) A seasoned foreign correspondent, she often finds herself preceded by an eager James A. Baker 3d, then Secretary of State, as she grills people like Askar Akaev, "*the John F. Kennedy of* /Central Asia/," an upbeat physicist who was elected President of what she sees as the only genuinely democratic new republic in the region, mountainous Kyrgyzstan.
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381941][Greg Norman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/08/sports/sports-of-the-times-golf-s-norman-invasion.html][1994/12/08/0729988]]) was formed to appease Charles Blair Macdonald, a mouthy, mustached Chicago golfer who considered himself *the Greg Norman of* /a century ago/.
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54545][Martina Navratilova]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/16/sports/gymnastics-gymnast-s-toughest-balancing-act-shannon-miller-juggles-school-social.html][1994/12/16/0731545]]) She's *the Martina Navratilova of* /gymnastics/, is what she is.
158. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151593][Olivier Messiaen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/17/arts/in-performance-classical-music-139327.html][1994/12/17/0731714]]) Its intensely rhapsodic chord sequences recalled Debussy and *the Messiaen of* the Preludes.+
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177854][Lorenzo de' Medici]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/18/books/he-who-smuggles-must-learn-to-party.html][1994/12/18/0731771]]) Over the years, this man, whom one of the Russian artists calls "*the Lorenzo de' Medici of* /Russian art/" spent more than $3 million of his own money, operating under secretive and quasi-legal conditions that posed considerable risk both to himself and to the artists whom he befriended and patronized on his many trips to the former Soviet Union.
160. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28469410][King Lear]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/18/nyregion/theater-that-jeweler-s-best-pal-from-little-rock.html][1994/12/18/0731831]]) (If Mama Rose is *the King Lear of* musicals, as she has often been dubbed, Lorelei is the Lady Macbeth, but with a sense of humor).+
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314185][George Mikan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/23/sports/college-basketball-the-israeli-connection-is-thriving-at-uconn.html][1994/12/23/0732979]]) "He was *the George Mikan of* /Israel/," Calhoun said, referring to the former Minneapolis Lakers star who was the first great big man in American basketball.
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/26/theater/egos-and-charity-both-get-a-lift-in-role-auctions.html][1994/12/26/0733507]]) "Les Miserables" is the one role that Robert Karp, a New York City Board of Education administrator who is arguably *the King Kong of* /walk-ons/, still covets.
163. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59215][Robert Redford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/28/books/books-of-the-times-pauline-kael-loving-and-loathing.html][1994/12/28/0733761]]) And *the Robert Redford of* "Quiz Show" is the Robert Redford she first spotted in "Ordinary People," with its "respectable, pictorial, dated look that movies get when the director has a proficient team of craftsmen but doesn't really think in visual terms."+
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348011][Joe Montana]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/29/sports/surfing-the-last-ride-of-his-life.html][1994/12/29/0733931]]) He was known as *the Joe Montana of* /Big Waves/, and was a do-it-all: broadcaster, author, businessman, health enthusiast, traveler.

** 1995
1. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/02/business/winds-of-change-hit-music-s-top-tier.html][1995/01/02/0734586]]) FUTURE: Some industry executives call Mr. Knight *the Spielberg of* /hip-hop/, but they wonder if he can stay out of legal trouble.+ (D)
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/02/business/winds-of-change-hit-music-s-top-tier.html][1995/01/02/0734637]]) FUTURE: Some industry executives call Mr. Knight *the Spielberg of* /hip-hop/, but they wonder if he can stay out of legal trouble.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30755][Auguste Rodin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/opinion/l-city-hall-restoration-should-return-jefferson-to-place-of-honor-582095.html][1995/01/05/0735124]]) His friend the Marquis de Lafayette recommended D'Angers, *the Rodin of* /his time/, as anyone visiting the Louvre's Richelieu Court can see.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/05/us/the-104th-congress-talk-radio-true-believers-rejoice-in-babylon.html][1995/01/05/0735173]]) The office of Rush Limbaugh, *the Babe Ruth of* /the talk-show circuit/, said Mr. Limbaugh was on vacation.
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/09/opinion/l-stalling-on-social-security-makes-a-worse-mess-seek-cuts-elsewhere-222095.html][1995/01/09/0735946]]) The need to cut either welfare or promised retirement benefits exists only in the political posturing that is *the Willie Horton of* /the 1990's/.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255463][Camille Paglia]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/13/arts/art-in-review-036995.html][1995/01/13/0736539]]) Ms. Minter seems to be flirting with the idea that there is something glamorous as well as perverse about the sexual obsessions she chronicles; perhaps she wants to be *the Camille Paglia of* /the visual arts/.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6101][Marco Polo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/books/surrounded-by-zealots.html][1995/01/15/0737073]]) A friend of his, he tells us, gave him a chronicle of the famous 14th-century North African traveler Ibn Battuta (*the Marco Polo of* /Islam/, he has been called), who left his Moroccan birthplace, at the age of 21, on travels that took him, over the course of 30 years, eastward to India and China, northward to Central Asia and deep into Africa.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193368][Ted Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/sports/tennis-the-hair-is-shorter-the-resolve-is-longer.html][1995/01/15/0737125]]) He has been *the Ted Turner of* /his sport/, at times colorizing it unmercifully, but ever able.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106143][Samuel Pepys]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/on-washington-america-s-front-lawn.html][1995/01/15/0737169]]) Pugh presents himself as *the Samuel Pepys of* /the park/, witness to the eerie, violent goings-on.
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313721][Cornelius Vanderbilt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/19/business/building-a-railroad-deep-into-brazil.html][1995/01/19/0737800]]) If the mild-mannered entrepreneur wants to become *the Cornelius Vanderbilt of* /late 20th-century Brazil/, his compatriots learned long ago not to laugh at his vision of a private railroad extending across Brazil's western frontier.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209390][Jackie Joyner-Kersee]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/20/sports/women-who-soar-the-friendly-skies.html][1995/01/20/0738148]]) Raschker, *the Jackie Joyner-Kersee of* /Masters track and field/, has won dozens of other national and world titles in the sprints, hurdles, jumps and heptathlon.
12. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28945251][L.]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/22/nyregion/man-arrested-after-wild-ride-from-triborough-to-kennedy.html][1995/01/22/0738504]]) Back to Jeanne Smith at *the L. of* C. (I recently misattributed "National Information Infrastructure" to the library, but that title is a Clinton Administration infobahn pomposity.+
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5877899][George Maw]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/29/books/in-the-maw-of-the-death-machine.html][1995/01/29/0740250]]) In *the Maw of* the Death Machine+
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49575][Dizzy Gillespie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/01/garden/cooking-up-a-storm-in-atlanta.html][1995/02/01/0740755]]) One might doubt that the cheek of a halibut would constitute a substantial repast for a healthy adult, but the thick, meaty portion seems to have come from *the Dizzy Gillespie of* /the deep/.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240933][Joan Rivers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/01/nyregion/curriculum-or-not-teachers-teach-values.html][1995/02/01/0740881]]) At age 59, Mrs. Fue looks and acts like *the Joan Rivers of* /Woodstown/.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183528][Philip Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/05/magazine/reimagining-berlin.html][1995/02/05/0741684]]) Probably no one has profited more from this system than Josef Kleihues, who has become *the Philip Johnson of* /Berlin/ -- an eminent architect with an unusual combination of political power and esthetic clout.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/06/us/mother-teresa-of-houston-fights-hunger-and-government-aid.html][1995/02/06/0741881]]) Mrs. Porter was once called "*the Mother Teresa of* /Houston/," and she is no less experienced in dealing with the news media.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521145][Mario Cuomo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/09/us/pete-wilson-and-96-race-a-coy-natural.html][1995/02/09/0742308]]) Is he going to be *the Mario Cuomo of* /1996/?
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/10/world/new-delhi-journal-a-demon-housecleaner-to-clean-india-s-house.html][1995/02/10/0742588]]) A recent editorial in The Hindustan Times, one of the country's most influential newspapers, described Mr. Seshan as "*the Fuhrer of* /the Indian poll 'Reich'/ " for his habit of issuing directives that his critics say reach far beyond election statutes.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1954907][Robert Novak]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/11/arts/critic-s-notebook-discussing-the-budget-zzzzzz-z-z-z.html][1995/02/11/0742594]]) Mr. Will ventured so far as to try to get Ms. Rivlin to say something one could understand about the relation between the budget and interest rates, and even Sam Donaldson, *the Robert Novak of* /the middling left/, avoided treating the subject as if it were a wrestling match.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154421][Ed Asner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/movies/television-hey-it-s-not-sondheim-but-adults-don-t-care.html][1995/02/12/0742777]]) Characters that never saw the light of day include Nipsy and Russell (either two possums or two raccoons), Bossy Beaver and Doyle ("sort of *the Ed Asner of* /beavers/ and his moronic sidekick") and the amoeba stars of "As the Petri Dish Turns."
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905][Franz Kafka]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/12/style/the-lasting-edge-of-diane-arbus.html][1995/02/12/0743054]]) Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander may have racked up as many honors, and Richard Avedon may have gained wider name recognition, but none of them can claim to possess her black-crepe glamour as *the Kafka of* /American photography/.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5488961][Frank Perdue]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/13/business/visiting-russian-governor-meets-idol-frank-perdue.html][1995/02/13/0743158]]) "I was once *the Frank Perdue of* /Leningrad/," he said.
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/14/sports/sports-of-the-times-nat-holman-taught-team-basketball.html][1995/02/14/0743308]]) With his black hair parted slightly to the right, Holman was the playmaker, *the Magic Johnson of* /his time/.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8446][Kurt Cobain]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/19/arts/classical-view-a-requiem-for-amadeus.html][1995/02/19/0744055]]) Some possible portents of doom: a recording that advertises Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as "the 'Star Wars' of symphonic music" and Ludwig van B. himself as *the Kurt Cobain of* /his generation/; a famous young virtuoso playing "The Four Seasons" in a music video broadcast on the Weather Channel; arousing anthologies of "Sensual Classics" aimed at heterosexual or homosexual listeners; disks of Arvo Part's music stamped with a descriptive blurb from Michael Stipe of R.E.M.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1126679][The Scarlet Pimpernel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/19/us/al-gore-one-vice-president-who-is-eluding-the-shadows.html][1995/02/19/0744122]]) Sometimes, however, Mr. Gore gets carried away in his role as *the Scarlet Pimpernel of* /American diplomacy/.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/19/business/a-japanese-gambler-hits-the-jackpot-with-softbank.html][1995/02/19/0744341]]) They call him *the Bill Gates of* /Japan/.
28. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/28/sports/boxing-ailing-fighter-overshadows-whitaker-s-bid-for-record.html][1995/02/28/0745844]]) "He's going to have to learn to fight again the way he was, not *the Mike Tyson of* three and a half years ago who won a lackluster decision over RAZOR RUDDOCK, and the one who lost to BUSTER DOUGLAS."+
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131814][Tina Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/28/style/patterns-351395.html][1995/02/28/0745877]]) If Bill Blass has one more season as outstanding as his last two, he will have earned the right to be called *the Tina Turner of* /the fashion industry/.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/05/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-march-madness-has-already-begun.html][1995/03/05/0746816]]) But in 1974, Brent Musburger started broadcasting the college tournament for CBS and became *the Johnny Appleseed of* /alliteration/, using the phrase he had known as a high school reporter for the old Chicago American.
31. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434][Ernest Hemingway]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/opinion/return-to-saigon-tet-1995.html][1995/03/12/0748189]]) Even *the Hemingway of* "A Farewell to Arms," professing revulsion at the rhetoric of heroism, movingly employed it and became the high priest of martial virtue.+
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q200586][Sheryl Crow]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/arts/pop-view-she-s-talkin-bout-our-generations.html][1995/03/12/0748353]]) But *the Sheryl Crow of* "Tuesday Night Music Club" is actually a committee product.+
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535129][Sol Hurok]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/13/arts/latin-festival-pays-homage-to-a-legendary-club.html][1995/03/13/0748567]]) Ralph Mercado, now *the Sol Hurok of* /Latin music in New York/, did the booking.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296647][Ralph Lauren]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/14/style/review-fashion-from-young-designers-familiar-echoes.html][1995/03/14/0748676]]) The shift here from commercial power to the search for the creative was most apparent by the turnout for Fabio Piras, another recent St. Martin's graduate, who scheduled his runway show at the same time that Margaret Howell, considered *the Ralph Lauren of* /London/, was holding her first runway show in 15 years.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317465][Abdul Sattar Edhi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/17/world/karachi-journal-in-a-hellish-city-there-s-still-a-kind-of-saintliness.html][1995/03/17/0749200]]) "No -- I'd rather call Mother Teresa *the Abdul Sattar Edhi of* /Calcutta/."
36. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54168][J. P. Morgan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/29/us/international-business-merger-to-create-new-japan-bank-world-s-largest.html][1995/03/29/0751746]]) The Mitsubishi Bank has the reputation of being among the most prestigious and conservative of Japanese banks and is sometimes referred to as *the J. P. Morgan of* Japan.+
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/01/obituaries/grammy-winning-singer-selena-killed-in-shooting-at-texas-motel.html][1995/04/01/0752308]]) With her pouting smile, suggestive clothing and theatrical command of a microphone, Selena was often described as *the Madonna of* /the Mexican-American world/ and was an idol and heartthrob on both sides of the border.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6691][Homer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/02/magazine/the-emasculation-of-sports.html][1995/04/02/0752494]]) Roone Arledge of ABC emerged as *the Homer of* /an enormously profitable televised mythology that brought us epic battles in slo-mo and instant replay/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/02/magazine/the-emasculation-of-sports.html][1995/04/02/0752494]]) He was *the Madonna of* /his time/, especially by 1969, when he guaranteed a Super Bowl victory for his underdog team, and delivered.
40. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018][Augustine of Hippo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/05/books/books-of-the-times-who-saved-civilization-the-irish-that-s-who.html][1995/04/05/0753246]]) Contrasting with him is Augustine of Hippo, *the St. Augustine of* history, whose remarkable codification of the early Christian orthodoxy made him "almost the last great classical man -- and very nearly the first medieval man."+
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/with-gimlet-eye-restaurants-zagat-man-not-book-makes-his-nightly-rounds.html][1995/04/09/0753814]]) In three hours of stepping in and out of a limousine and in and out of restaurants, some fancy, some less so, he was greeted by strangers who clearly saw him as a crusader for good in the world, *the Ralph Nader of* /food/, Our Man in the Public Dining Room.
42. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151973][Richard Burton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/10/obituaries/alton-meister-72-a-biochemist-who-advanced-aids-research.html][1995/04/10/0754261]]) Or Burton, *the Burton of* 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'+
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53325][Arthur Ashe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/14/sports/hockey-getting-used-to-idea-of-no-cup-and-no-nectar.html][1995/04/14/0755076]]) Just a 19-year-old amateur, but disciplined, talented, and a social diplomat, Woods may be *the Arthur Ashe of* /the Nineties/.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504025][Bill Bradley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/14/sports/hockey-getting-used-to-idea-of-no-cup-and-no-nectar.html][1995/04/14/0755076]]) Here is Rebecca Lobo, *the Bill Bradley of* /the Nineties/, smart, nice, dedicated, the cover girl of the University of Connecticut's unbeaten National Collegiate Athletic Association championship team.
45. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6294][Hillary Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/22/us/meet-hillary-rodham-clinton-the-traditional-first-lady.html][1995/04/22/0757156]]) It will not be *the Hillary Clinton of* the health care battles, or the one defending her investment practices or the one making campaign speeches for her husband.+
46. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/22/us/lesbian-s-appeal-for-custody-of-son-rejected.html][1995/04/22/0757167]]) The justices overturned a decision by *the Virginia Court of* Appeals, which last year issued a broad opinion that gay-rights advocates hailed as giving hope to homosexual parents nationwide.+
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333468][Robert Maxwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/23/books/the-inflamation.html][1995/04/23/0757457]]) The cause of all this fuss and feathers is that -- brace yourself -- he fired one agent (the wife of his close friend, the novelist Julian Barnes), and hired another, Andrew Wylie, an American now referred to in the British papers as "the Jackal" and "*the Robert Maxwell of* /agenting/," who got him a juicy advance for the British edition, rumored to be close to $800,000.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298237][Benedict Arnold]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/24/business/information-technology-meaning-digital-life-publishers-sell-remedies-for.html][1995/04/24/0757794]]) But he has received a barrage of angry electronic-mail messages from cyberspace regulars, accusing him, Mr. Stoll says, of being "*the Benedict Arnold of* /the computer world/."
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193871][Marshall McLuhan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/24/business/information-technology-meaning-digital-life-publishers-sell-remedies-for.html][1995/04/24/0757794]]) In a sense, this is a race to emerge as *the Marshall McLuhan of* /the 90's/, a popular interpreter of digital technology, the way Professor McLuhan served as the sage of the mass media in the 1960's and 70's.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/01/obituaries/henry-rogers-82-press-agent-who-built-hollywood-stars.html][1995/05/01/0759317]]) "He was *the Cary Grant of* /public relations/," Mr. Cowan said.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151231][Annie Lennox]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/02/arts/pop-review-is-this-mood-music-or-music-that-s-moody.html][1995/05/02/0759532]]) Siouxsie Sioux (originally Susan Janet Dallion), the leader of Siouxsie and the Banshees, is *the Annie Lennox of* /the gothic-rock underground/, whose denizens were in full force at Roseland in black gowns and capes, black eyeliner, black hair dye and white face powder.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/04/sports/1995-nba-playoffs-game-isn-t-on-top-of-kukoc-s-priority-list.html][1995/05/04/0760016]]) Once hailed as *the Magic Johnson of* /Europe/, Kukoc has made great strides in his game since signing an eight-year, $17.6 million contract with the three-time champion Bulls in 1993.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216124][Stonewall Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/13/nyregion/bluffing-has-a-price.html][1995/05/13/0762154]]) "What this agreement tells us is that this Mayor is not *the Stonewall Jackson of* /labor relations/," said Edward F. Ott, the political director of Local 1180 of the Communications Workers of America, which represents about 10,000 city administrative employees.
54. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61064][Wassily Kandinsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/21/arts/art-view-a-restless-borrower-and-his-own-man.html][1995/05/21/0764107]]) The connection isn't idle, since Kandinsky -- meaning *the Kandinsky of* his peak Munich years, 1911-13 -- is precisely who comes to mind while you're admiring Gorky's pictures from the 1940's.+
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/22/business/gates-the-pragmatist-walked-away.html][1995/05/22/0764270]]) Some see him as *the Thomas Edison of* /the information age/; others see John D. Rockefeller.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950][James Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/22/sports/golf-for-singh-it-s-par-for-the-course-until-the-very-end.html][1995/05/22/0764316]]) It figured it would unfold this way for Vijay Singh, *the James Brown of* /golf/, the hardest working man in the game.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/23/business/international-business-dirty-cars-in-us-foul-up-the-seat-belts-japanese-say.html][1995/05/23/0764448]]) But Fumio Matsuda, who is head of the Japan Automobile Consumers Union and is often described as *the Ralph Nader of* /Japan/, said officials there simply did not care as much about safety as did officials in the United States.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296729][Tony Bennett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/30/business/ya-hooo-marketing-coup-50-mountain-dew-manages-tickle-innards-young-men.html][1995/05/30/0765760]]) Pepsico is hoping that, for Generation-Xers, he will be *the Tony Bennett of* /soda pop/.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/31/nyregion/lawyer-s-50-year-journey-bar-christian-rightist-long-ago-says-it-s-justice.html][1995/05/31/0765926]]) Walter Winchell, after all, branded his client, Mr. Cassidy, "*the Fuhrer of* /Flatbush/."
60. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297142][Joe DiMaggio]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/09/books/books-of-the-times-the-baseball-hero-beyond-mere-fame.html][1995/06/09/0767768]]) The author begins his book with an overly detailed chapter about *the Joe DiMaggio of* television-commercial fame, and he includes a chapter on New York baseball in the era of Babe Ruth and John McGraw, which is peripheral to his subject.+
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9711][Honoré de Balzac]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/11/books/books-for-vacation-reading.html][1995/06/11/0768089]]) The novelist who is fast becoming *the Balzac of* /the contemporary Midwest/ sets her newest book on the campus of a big agricultural university and puts a 700-pound pig right in the middle.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319247][Mark Messier]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/14/sports/1995-nhl-playoffs-in-defeat-lindros-learns-his-limits.html][1995/06/14/0768829]]) Long ago, Lindros was anointed by the system, declared to be *the Mark Messier of* /the 21st century/, and so his limited productivity was the most noticeable.
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217557][Joyce Carol Oates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/18/books/sweet-charity.html][1995/06/18/0769742]]) She is a veteran of the last years of Hollywood's studio system, an Academy Award-winning actress with more than 40 films to her credit, a touring hoofer-singer-headliner in her own lounge act, a reincarnation advocate who (at least in my local bookstore, where the New Age section shelf placards read "The Unexplained, UFO-related, Wicca, Out-of-Body, Shirley MacLaine") has created a whole new area of metaphysical study, and, given that "My Lucky Stars" is her eighth autobiographical work, she is by now practically *the Joyce Carol Oates of* /Hollywood memoirists/.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/21/us/new-jersey-financier-used-fraud-at-firm-judge-rules.html][1995/06/21/0770285]]) "At long last, *the Johnny Appleseed of* /massive penny-stock fraud/ has been brought to justice," he said.
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q873][Meryl Streep]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/25/theater/sunday-view-michael-lisa-diane-and-a-greek-chorus.html][1995/06/25/0771074]]) These shifts are so quick, yet so dramatic, that one observer has called her *the Meryl Streep of* /anchorwomen/.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83807][Ed Sullivan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/25/business/investing-it-street-smarts-this-stock-may-need-an-infomercial.html][1995/06/25/0771235]]) HE'S *the Ed Sullivan of* /the insomniac set/.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3603336][Abby Hoffman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/29/nyregion/graffiti-maker-cost-prankster-some-but-criminal-law-s-eyes-sentenced.html][1995/06/29/0771862]]) "He is sort of like *the Abby Hoffman of* /the movement/," said Zephyr, a Manhattan man who calls himself the "elder statesman" of graffiti makers.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1126679][The Scarlet Pimpernel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/02/weekinreview/june-25-july-1-jailed-dissidents-china-s-strong-arm-throws-a-punch-at-the-us.html][1995/07/02/0772401]]) For Americans, Harry Wu may very well be *the Scarlet Pimpernel of* /China/.
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434][Ernest Hemingway]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/02/theater/americans-in-a-land-of-opportunity-europe.html][1995/07/02/0772688]]) Gallico, a columnist for The Daily News, was called *the Hemingway of* /the sports page/ and reportedly was paid more than Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler and other oft-quoted writers.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950][James Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/04/arts/jazz-festival-review-with-a-voice-euphoric-and-strong.html][1995/07/04/0772904]]) India was followed by *the James Brown of* /the salsa world/, Oscar D'Leon, whose band went on to support Ms. Cruz.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49214][Dan Quayle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/05/opinion/the-ground-glass-of-reality.html][1995/07/05/0773003]]) Judge Lance A. Ito must feel like *the Dan Quayle of* /the trial bench/, condemned by an early negative impression.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721948][Nolan Ryan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/11/sports/baseball-baseball-s-rebirth-is-all-star-mission.html][1995/07/11/0774127]]) "He's *the Nolan Ryan of* /the 90's/.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344977][Don King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/14/nyregion/our-towns-live-with-the-king-of-40000-parties.html][1995/07/14/0774861]]) He is a party elephant, *the Don King of* /the club-date business/.
74. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/16/weekinreview/july-9-15-big-and-little-lamas-scolded.html][1995/07/16/0775033]]) When the world's most beloved Buddhist monk, *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, who lives in exile with tens of thousands of followers in India, celebrated his 60th birthday with three days of meetings and prayers, the Chinese Government denounced him.+
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213430][Larry King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/16/magazine/the-first-in-the-velvet-glove.html][1995/07/16/0775170]]) "There are few people who love him but many who feel a deep respect for him," said Lubos Beniak, *the Larry King of* /Czech television/.
76. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366086][Rupert Brooke]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/17/obituaries/stephen-spender-poet-of-melancholic-vision-and-social-conscience-dies-at-86.html][1995/07/17/0775537]]) Because of that lyricism, coupled with his good looks, he was also once labeled "*the Rupert Brooke of* /the Depression/," in a barbed reference to the British war poet who died during World War I.+ (D)
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366086][Rupert Brooke]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/18/obituaries/stephen-spender-poet-of-melancholic-vision-and-social-conscience-dies-at-86.html][1995/07/18/0775612]]) Because of that lyricism, coupled with his good looks, he was also once labeled "*the Rupert Brooke of* /the Depression/," in a barbed reference to the handsome British war poet who died during World War I..
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/20/opinion/defending-affirmative-action.html][1995/07/20/0776093]]) Instead of the aimlessness that has marked so many White House efforts, this speech offered the zest and forthrightness promised by *the Bill Clinton of* the '92 campaign.+
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/23/nyregion/visionary-s-creations-flow-from-center-in-water-mill.html][1995/07/23/0776903]]) Until three years ago, when the cosmic visionary from Waco, Tex., who has been called *the P. T. Barnum of* /the avant-garde/ and the guru of visual stage art, came upon a 30,000-square-foot industrial laboratory on six acres in Water Mill, where Western Union scientists onceexperimented.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/23/nyregion/westchester-guide-828095.html][1995/07/23/0777236]]) The lead vocalist and guitarist, Robert Krestan, is known as *the Bob Dylan of* /the Czech Republic/.
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2449527][Susan Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/24/us/affirmative-action-s-end-now-it-s-not-that-simple.html][1995/07/24/0777315]]) In an opinion article published today in The Los Angeles Times, Mr. Jackson wrote that Mr. Wilson was "*the Susan Smith of* /national politics/, reaching for a racial scapegoat," an allusion to the white South Carolina woman who confessed to drowning her two sons after claiming for nine days that a black carjacker had abducted them.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254983][William Safire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/26/garden/kitchen-bookshelf-books-the-cool-summer-refresher.html][1995/07/26/0777722]]) Mr. Jacobs might be called *the William Safire of* /food writing/, and it has nothing to do with his politics.
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q948598][Albert Pinkham Ryder]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/30/nyregion/art-photographers-putting-their-eggs-in-technology-s-basket.html][1995/07/30/0778793]]) Indeed, their intimate atmosphere coupled with the enamel-like surface of the color makes Mr. Wasow *the Albert Pinkham Ryder of* /the group/.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/30/books/spies-thrillers.html][1995/07/30/0778992]]) He is *the Rembrandt of* /roller-coaster designers/.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7186][Marie Curie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/03/garden/house-proud-the-confessions-of-an-aqua-frau.html][1995/08/03/0779787]]) You will become *the Marie Curie of* /pool chemistry/, noting with dismay the yellow of high chlorine and the blood red of intense pH.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/06/magazine/virtual-virtuoso.html][1995/08/06/0780580]]) He already has a grand vision: he won't be merely a multimedia artist, he'll be a mogul, *the Walt Disney of* /21st century cyberspace/.
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3772][Quentin Tarantino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/06/movies/as-divided-by-dialect-as-the-homeland.html][1995/08/06/0780779]]) Last January, he organized a weeklong series of lectures about, and arty Cantonese movies by, the director Wong Kar-wai, known as *the Quentin Tarantino of* /Hong Kong/.
88. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/12/sports/harness-racing-herve-filion-arraigned-in-race-fixing-case.html][1995/08/12/0781898]]) "He is, in effect, *the Babe Ruth of* the harness track."+
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/12/sports/harness-racing-herve-filion-arraigned-in-race-fixing-case.html][1995/08/12/0781898]]) Herve Filion, described by his lawyer as *the Babe Ruth of* /harness racing/, turned himself in to the authorities here today amid charges that he and two other harness drivers threw races at Yonkers Raceway earlier this summer.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/13/nyregion/theater-dreamgirls-is-back.html][1995/08/13/0781959]]) Most of the crowd at Action Park came to see *the Elvis of* /polka/, Jimmy Sturr.
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/13/travel/travel-advisory-a-quieter-st-mark-s-basilica.html][1995/08/13/0782155]]) Finally, the tour to the basilica will follow a prescribed course, with the altar of *the Madonna of* Nicopeia off limits to visitors unless they intend to stop to pray.+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2263][Tom Hanks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/13/business/the-unassuming-player-with-the-22-billion-bet.html][1995/08/13/0782306]]) "I think of him as *the Tom Hanks of* /money management/," he said.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/14/business/israelis-and-others-feel-the-sting-of-a-cellular-phone-bug.html][1995/08/14/0782507]]) Israelis and Others Feel *the Sting of* a Cellular Phone Bug+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/26/sports/arm-wrestling-wrist-wars-on-the-waterfront.html][1995/08/26/0784760]]) Dean is called *the Babe Ruth of* /arm wrestling/ because he was the undisputed champ from 1978 to 1986, retired, got divorced, went into a depression, ballooned to 700 pounds, then dieted by "cutting out the fat in my food," he said, came back to arm wrestling last year and won the championship again in October.
95. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15030452][Mary Elizabeth Banning]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/weekinreview/august-20-26-religious-rights-bavarians-balk-at-the-banning-of-the-cross.html][1995/08/27/0785238]]) August 20-26: Religious Rights; Bavarians Balk at *the Banning of* the Cross+
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431786][Mark Fuhrman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/29/us/questions-abound-as-menendezes-retrial-nears.html][1995/08/29/0785565]]) Dr. Oziel became *the Mark Fuhrman of* /the Menendez trial/, his own character and past stealing the limelight much as those of Detective Fuhrman have in the Simpson trial.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240496][Lizzie Borden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/30/business/where-the-budget-ax-turns-dull.html][1995/08/30/0785760]]) This was supposed to be *the Lizzie Borden of* /Congresses/, the one whose fiscal broadax would whack away at friend and foe alike in the name of a balanced budget.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231861][Berenice Abbott]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/01/arts/the-news-of-brews-the-joints-are-hopping.html][1995/09/01/0785939]]) Many of the photographs were taken by *the Berenice Abbott of* /New York beer culture/, a local figure known as Uncle Ernie O.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184746][Jane Goodall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/01/arts/art-review-where-monkeys-are-the-rulers.html][1995/09/01/0786021]]) By all accounts, this artist was *the Jane Goodall of* /his day/, passing years deep in the forest to observe his subjects.
100. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40909][Virginia Woolf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/books/the-great-reminiscer.html][1995/09/03/0786172]]) In "Writing Was Everything," he enumerates his "hero-critics": Edmund Wilson, Van Wyck Brooks, Randolph Bourne, Lewis Mumford, H. L. Mencken, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, *the Virginia Woolf of* "The Common Reader."+
101. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125643][Dave Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/sports/nfl-95-brown-knows-fame-could-be-fleeting.html][1995/09/03/0786245]]) That was *the Dave Brown of* old.+
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57592][Magnus Hirschfeld]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/arts/recordings-view-dastardly-doings-in-elysium-lavishly-scored.html][1995/09/03/0786550]]) A poster headed "Two Jewish Scribblers," a denunciation of Schreker and Ernst Toch, called Schreker "*the Magnus Hirschfeld of* /opera composers/," referring to a famous psychiatrist of the day, and declared contemptuously that "there was no sexual-pathological aberration he would not have set to music."
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561852][Willie Mays]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/06/nyregion/death-rate-rankings-shake-new-york-cardiac-surgeons.html][1995/09/06/0786967]]) "How does it feel to be *the Willie Mays of* /heart surgery/?"
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/10/style/weddings-dawn-m-gangi-jeffrey-schwartz.html][1995/09/10/0787852]]) Descriptions of Mr. King as "a street Machiavelli, a ghetto Einstein" and of Muhammad Ali as "*the Einstein of* /the Sweet Science/" hit the eye like a head-butt, and calling Ali's victory over George Foreman "an epic, a miracle, a revolution" throws rhetoric over the event while illuminating nothing.
105. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310272][Frankie Fredericks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/14/sports/results-plus-045095.html][1995/09/14/0788437]]) Haile Gebreselassie, Ethiopia's distance champion, canceled at the last minute, and the participation of *the Frankie Fredericks of* Namibia and Samuel Matete of Zambia was in doubt.+
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/movies/japan-a-superpower-among-superheroes.html][1995/09/17/0789033]]) But the modern form of comics and animation was created in the two decades after World War II by Osamu Tezuka, who is known as *the Walt Disney of* /Japan/.
107. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/nyregion/a-curve-of-binding-energy.html][1995/09/17/0789198]]) There are 78 hair salons for men, women or both, including an evocatively named pair -- Fantasy of Italy Hair Design just south of Dyckman, and Fantastic Unisex at 149th Street -- and the Broadway Barber Shop at 104th, where Kay Demetriou, apparently *the Cal Ripken of* /barbers/, has not missed a day of snipping and shaving, he says, in more than 50 years.+ (D)
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/nyregion/a-curve-of-binding-energy.html][1995/09/17/0789254]]) There are 78 hair salons for men, women or both, including an evocatively named pair -- Fantasy of Italy Hair Design just south of Dyckman, and Fantastic Unisex at 149th Street -- and the Broadway Barber Shop at 104th, where Kay Demetriou, apparently *the Cal Ripken of* /barbers/, has not missed a day of snipping and shaving, he says, in more than 50 years.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727953][Michael Eisner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/18/business/radio-giant-is-set-for-a-growth-spurt.html][1995/09/18/0789404]]) Mr. Karmazin says the fears are unfounded and contends he is not about to become *the Michael Eisner of* /radio/, let alone its Citizen Kane.
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/19/business/media-business-advertising-new-shop-shows-big-agencies-keep-getting-smaller.html][1995/09/19/0789570]]) Clever television commercials and print advertisements introduce a mysterious stranger reminiscent of the Marcello Mastroianni character in Fellini's "8 1/2" or *the James Bond of* Sean Connery.+
111. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22965780][Allyson Brooke Hernandez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/21/arts/dance-review-when-ferocious-engagement-becomes-the-ally-of-dreamy.html][1995/09/21/0789852]]) When Ferocious Engagement Becomes *the Ally of* Dreamy+
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504455][Andrew Dice Clay]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/22/movies/film-review.html][1995/09/22/0790066]]) Mr. Ezsterhas, *the Andrew Dice Clay of* /screenwriting/, bludgeons the audience with such tirelessly crude thoughts that when a group of chimps get loose in the showgirls' dressing room and all they do is defecate, the film enjoys a rare moment of good taste.
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57592][Magnus Hirschfeld]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/24/arts/l-franz-schreker-a-note-on-magnus-hirschfeld-410195.html][1995/09/24/0790586]]) To the Editor:  In his piece on Franz Schreker  [ "Dastardly Doings In Elysium, Lavishly Scored," Sept. 3 ] , Jamie James refers to Magnus Hirschfeld as "a famous psychiatrist of the day" in the context of noting that a Nazi poster had slanderously called Schreker "*the Magnus Hirschfeld of* /opera composers/."
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233951][Birgit Nilsson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/24/theater/recordings-view-how-to-succeed-in-show-business-by-really-singing.html][1995/09/24/0790824]]) George Gershwin adored the brassy singing of Ethel Merman, *the Birgit Nilsson of* /Broadway/, as well as the stylish crooning of Fred Astaire, whose voice barely reached the balcony.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/27/obituaries/smith-s-new-president-applauds-her-mentors.html][1995/09/27/0791171]]) Professor Gates, who regards Dr. Simmons as a mentor, said, "She's *the Jackie Robinson of* /college presidents/."
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232340][Edie Sedgwick]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/08/style/where-silicon-alley-artists-go-to-download.html][1995/10/08/0795126]]) "She's *the Edie Sedgwick of* /1995/," he said.+ (D)
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232340][Edie Sedgwick]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/08/style/where-silicon-alley-artists-go-to-download.html][1995/10/08/0795405]]) "She's *the Edie Sedgwick of* /1995/," he said.
118. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431786][Mark Fuhrman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/11/business/all-a-matter-of-perspective.html][1995/10/11/0796540]]) "They may not be the Mother Teresa of banking, but they are far from *the Mark Fuhrman of* /banking/," said Kenneth Thomas, an independent consultant based in Miami.+ (D)
119. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/11/business/all-a-matter-of-perspective.html][1995/10/11/0796540]]) "They may not be *the Mother Teresa of* /banking/, but they are far from the Mark Fuhrman of banking," said Kenneth Thomas, an independent consultant based in Miami.+ (D)
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3431786][Mark Fuhrman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/11/business/all-a-matter-of-perspective.html][1995/10/11/0796696]]) "They may not be the Mother Teresa of banking, but they are far from *the Mark Fuhrman of* /banking/," said Kenneth Thomas, an independent consultant based in Miami.
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/11/business/all-a-matter-of-perspective.html][1995/10/11/0796696]]) "They may not be *the Mother Teresa of* /banking/, but they are far from the Mark Fuhrman of banking," said Kenneth Thomas, an independent consultant based in Miami.
122. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255565][Carol Burnett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/theater/sunday-view-listen-to-company-tune-out-the-book.html][1995/10/15/0797946]]) Ms. Burnett is the straight man, not just for Mr. Bosco but for her own rowdier comic persona: *the Carol Burnett of* the double and triple takes, the arms and legs that strike such bizarre angles, the half-strangled guffaws that can signal gawkish incredulity or hopeless cynicism.+
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6775598][Martin Hall]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/realestate/postings-annual-walking-tour-is-next-saturday-brownstones-of-bed-stuy.html][1995/10/15/0798020]]) A financing workshop on buying and renovating homes in the neighborhood will  be held from 10 to 11:30 A.M. at *the Martin Hall of* St. Phillips P.E.+
124. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/books/books-in-brief-fiction-062162.html][1995/10/15/0798086]]) Or maybe just *the Donald Trump of* /schlock novelists/: long on bluster, short on certain crucial specifics.+ (D)
125. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6775598][Martin Hall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/realestate/postings-annual-walking-tour-is-next-saturday-brownstones-of-bed-stuy.html][1995/10/15/0798516]]) A financing workshop on buying and renovating homes in the neighborhood will be held from 10 to 11:30 A.M. at *the Martin Hall of* St. Phillips P.E.+
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/books/books-in-brief-fiction-467795.html][1995/10/15/0798541]]) Or maybe just *the Donald Trump of* /schlock novelists/: long on bluster, short on certain crucial specifics.
127. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255565][Carol Burnett]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/theater/sunday-view-listen-to-company-tune-out-the-book.html][1995/10/15/0798585]]) Ms. Burnett is the straight man, not just for Mr. Bosco but for her own rowdier comic persona: *the Carol Burnett of* the double and triple takes, the arms and legs that strike such bizarre angles, the half-strangled guffaws that can signal gawkish incredulity or hopeless cynicism.+
128. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/16/us/dole-builds-loyal-if-uninspired-support.html][1995/10/16/0798921]]) "I'm *the Cal Ripken of* /American politics/," Mr. Dole said during a campaign stop at a factory in Manchester this week.+ (D)
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/16/us/dole-builds-loyal-if-uninspired-support.html][1995/10/16/0798972]]) "I'm *the Cal Ripken of* /American politics/," Mr. Dole said during a campaign stop at a factory in Manchester this week.
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/20/business/the-media-business-a-japanese-entrepreneur-may-pay-2-billion-for-ziff-davis.html][1995/10/20/0800631]]) Son, by now a billionaire, is one of Japan's rare entrepreneurial success stories and is sometimes called *the Bill Gates of* /Japan/, after the Microsoft founder.+ (D)
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/20/business/the-media-business-a-japanese-entrepreneur-may-pay-2-billion-for-ziff-davis.html][1995/10/20/0801043]]) Son, by now a billionaire, is one of Japan's rare entrepreneurial success stories and is sometimes called *the Bill Gates of* /Japan/, after the Microsoft founder.
132. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15040587][Toots Shor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/22/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-078034.html][1995/10/22/0801497]]) Mr. Salinger, a vice chairman of the Burson-Marsteller public relations agency, knows or has known everyone -- he's *the Toots Shor of* /current affairs/ -- and he also tells a good story.+ (D)
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15040587][Toots Shor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/22/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-856095.html][1995/10/22/0802229]]) Mr. Salinger, a vice chairman of the Burson-Marsteller public relations agency, knows or has known everyone -- he's *the Toots Shor of* /current affairs/ -- and he also tells a good story.
134. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6757092][Marcia Clark]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/24/us/texas-jury-convicts-fan-of-killing-recording-star.html][1995/10/24/0802605]]) "The last thing I want is to become known as *the Marcia Clark of* /South Texas/," said Nueces County District Attorney Carlos Valdez.+ (D)
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6757092][Marcia Clark]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/24/us/texas-jury-convicts-fan-of-killing-recording-star.html][1995/10/24/0802908]]) "The last thing I want is to become known as *the Marcia Clark of* /South Texas/," said Nueces County District Attorney Carlos Valdez.
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310184][George Balanchine]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/26/nyregion/return-traffic-officers-new-division-chief-oversees-strategy-gridlock-war.html][1995/10/26/0803393]]) "This is incredible," said Chief Scagnelli, the new head of the Police Department's Traffic Control Division or, as one official put it, *the George Balanchine of* /traffic control/.
137. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/31/sports/boxing-tyson-offers-3-rounds-and-a-few-words.html][1995/10/31/0805528]]) Unlike *the Tyson of* August, who alternated between being humble or sullen at  news conferences before his return to boxing, he was relaxed today as he sat in the ring after sparring, flanked by his co-managers of record, Rory Holloway  and John Horne.+
138. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/31/sports/boxing-tyson-offers-3-rounds-and-a-few-words.html][1995/10/31/0805788]]) Unlike *the Tyson of* August, who alternated between being humble or sullen at news conferences before his return to boxing, he was relaxed today as he sat in the ring after sparring, flanked by his co-managers of record, Rory Holloway and John Horne.+
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21395509][Matt Friedman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/05/nyregion/theater-plays-that-have-pleased-before.html][1995/11/05/0806741]]) Judd Hirsch remains *the Matt Friedman of* choice in theatergoers' memories.+
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156395][Peter Lynch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/05/business/investing-it-will-it-please-the-court-a-litigation-analyst-calls-the-verdicts.html][1995/11/05/0806816]]) A former securities lawyer with a perpetually bemused look, he is *the Peter Lynch of* /litigation/, a bottom-up, kick-the-tires, taste-the-pudding kind of guy who aims to determine how investors might profit from pending litigation.
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/05/nyregion/neighborhood-report-queens-up-close-independence-party-marching-off-to-war.html][1995/11/05/0807033]]) "Call me *the Ross Perot of* /Queens/," he said.
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48745][Lee Harvey Oswald]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/08/opinion/foreign-affairs-how-about-you.html][1995/11/08/0807533]]) The Likud party leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been doing his best to paint  Yigal Amir, Mr. Rabin's assassin, as a lone gunman -- *the Lee Harvey Oswald of* /Israel/.
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/08/arts/television-review-a-child-abuse-case-taints-all-sides.html][1995/11/08/0807597]]) As the NBC correspondent, John Larson, tells the story, that officer, Bob Perez, is *the Johnny Appleseed of* /the accusations/.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271884][Norman Rockwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/10/arts/photography-review-why-ansel-adams-stays-so-popular.html][1995/11/10/0808051]]) It is tempting, but too easy, to think of Ansel Adams as simply *the Norman Rockwell of* /landscape photography/: immensely popular but critically negligible.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150851][Colin Powell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/magazine/on-language-famously.html][1995/11/12/0808386]]) That sense was used by Shakespeare in a play about Coriolanus, *the Colin Powell of* /his ancient time/: "I say unto you, what he hath done Famouslie.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357444][Lou Gehrig]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/19/business/investing-it-patience-this-man-practically-invented-it.html][1995/11/19/0810029]]) Two years later, in a note to Mr. Carret, he said, "You are *the Lou Gehrig of* /investing/."
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80938][John Travolta]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/20/sports/skiing-tomba-s-plan-is-to-conquer-world.html][1995/11/20/0810374]]) Said Patrick Lang, a World Cup coordinator: "I'm sure he would like to be *the John Travolta of* /skiing/.
148. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/24/sports/sports-of-the-times-iverson-s-second-chance.html][1995/11/24/0811143]]) Iverson's conviction was overturned by *the Virginia Court of* Appeals last June on grounds  of reasonable doubt regarding his participation in the brawl.+
149. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/26/nyregion/a-gospel-session-honors-beethoven.html][1995/11/26/0811407]]) The singer recites the ships' names, "the Medusa, the Othello, the Enterprise, *the Jesus of* Lubeck"; the dancer accelerates, pauses, elaborates, then draws back into himself.+
150. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2586583][Henny Youngman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/26/nyregion/why-is-this-30000-mayor-laughing.html][1995/11/26/0811451]]) In his first two-year term, Mr. Peters, a short, stocky man of 47 with graying hair and graying mustache, has firmly established himself as *the Henny Youngman of* /the mayoral business/, the city hall king of the one-liners.
151. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55004][Kurt Weill]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/27/arts/opera-review-mahagonny-an-apt-metaphor-for-political-chaos-in-any-era.html][1995/11/27/0811883]]) In abrasive harmonies and stern counterpoint, one hears vestiges of the composer's once-rigorous modernism, but this is predominantly *the Kurt Weill of* smoky bars and parades: long, sinuous, deceptively simple melodies that at their best soar with anthemlike power.+
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5679][Lord Byron]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/books/the-joy-of-suffering.html][1995/12/03/0812887]]) MADAME, you will live, and you will be *the Lord Byron of* /France/," Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand wrote prophetically to George Sand after reading  her novel "Lelia" in 1833.
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/us/birth-of-a-vision-a-special-report-files-show-how-gingrich-laid-a-grand-gop-plan.html][1995/12/03/0813152]]) Clearly, Mr. Gingrich was *the Thomas Edison of* /Gopac/, and he was comfortable  with the language of the entrepreneurs on his team.
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/04/theater/theater-review-christmas-carol-flows-from-stage-to-lobby.html][1995/12/04/0813441]]) Like the light confetti snowfall that caps the 90-minute entertainment, this  "Christmas Carol" lingers in the memory not so much for Dickens's sentimental sermon on human kindness or for the music and lyrics, but rather for the visual  candies that abound: purple corpses with orange chains flying over the stage, ghosts emerging from smoky fireplaces, pale gray tombstones rising against the London skyline and *the King Kong of* /turkeys/.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270648][P. D. James]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/books/crime-097667.html][1995/12/10/0815065]]) Although the author has been called "*the P. D. James of* /Japan/," the characters in this psychological suspense tale indulge in irrational behavior that would get them committed, if not arrested, in a James novel.
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182580][Shirley Temple]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/books/prodigy-and-prejudice.html][1995/12/10/0815068]]) THIS enthralling, heartbreaking book restores to attention Philippa Schuyler, child prodigy of the 1930's, pianist, composer, Harlem's Mozart, "*the Shirley Temple of* /American Negroes/."
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23380][Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/17/arts/art-through-the-eyes-of-lucian-freud.html][1995/12/17/0816796]]) When Mr. Freud was young, he was once called "*the Ingres of* /existentialism/" for his meticulous drawings of anxious figures.
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31073][Walter Cronkite]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/18/business/business-digest-021172.html][1995/12/18/0816853]]) A Growth Industry  Orion Samuelson, *the Walter Cronkite of* /farm broadcasting/, has come a long way from Green Bay, Wis., where he read livestock prices on local TV, to the Tribune Tower in Chicago, where he is at the forefront of an increasingly technology-driven field.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36322][Jane Austen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/19/nyregion/ross-thomas-69-an-author-of-stylish-political-thrillers.html][1995/12/19/0817116]]) The writer Stephen King, noting Mr. Ross's gift for character and witty dialogue, once called him "*the Jane Austen of* /the political espionage story/."
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/20/sports/pro-basketball-knicks-notebook-maybe-he-s-the-007-of-hoops.html][1995/12/20/0817311]]) Maybe He's *the 007 of* /Hoops/
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2923786][Brandon Tartikoff]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/24/magazine/who-needs-america-online.html][1995/12/24/0818001]]) Now he is in a position roughly equivalent to head of programming at a television network or production chief at a movie studio; he finds it an apt comparison when it's suggested that he might become *the Brandon Tartikoff of* /cyber-space/.
162. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35332][Brad Pitt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/24/movies/film-terry-gilliam-going-mainstream-sort-of.html][1995/12/24/0818020]]) And he doesn't look at all like *the Brad Pitt of* teen-age girls' dreams.+

** 1996
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/05/nyregion/nyc-going-by-foot-and-searching-for-respect.html][1996/01/05/0820352]]) SADLY, pedestrians are *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /New York transit/.
2. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21394242][Wilhelm Heimlich]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/07/magazine/on-language-maneuvering-with-heimlich.html][1996/01/07/0820689]]) To make conversation, you pop the question he must be asked by everybody: "You any relation to *the Heimlich of* the Heimlich maneuver?"+
3. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/10/arts/unlucky-art-show-is-off-on-off-and-it-hopes-on.html][1996/01/10/0821826]]) The "Girl With a Pearl Earring" turned up on the covers of both Art and Antiques Magazine and Smithsonian Magazine to become "*the Mona Lisa of* the 90's," in the words of Earl A. Powell 3d, the National Gallery's director.+
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/12/arts/inside-art.html][1996/01/12/0822045]]) To which Edrick Van, a London dealer, replied, "But I thought the Pope was *the Madonna of* /the art world/."
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/17/books/book-notes-074594.html][1996/01/17/0823245]]) In stepped Ann Landers, *the Oprah Winfrey of* /newspapers/, who on Jan. 7 made the rare move of devoting her column to a book, describing "The Right to Privacy" as "eye-opening and educational" and "well worth the money."
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348011][Joe Montana]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/17/garden/cooking-and-dating-a-guy-s-view-in-the-kitchen.html][1996/01/17/0823248]]) When a Guy starts cooking, he wants to be *the Joe Montana of* /mousse/, the Michael Jordan of  julienne, the Cal Ripken Jr. of roasting.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/17/garden/cooking-and-dating-a-guy-s-view-in-the-kitchen.html][1996/01/17/0823248]]) When a Guy starts cooking, he wants to be the Joe Montana of mousse, *the Michael Jordan of* /julienne/, the Cal Ripken Jr. of roasting.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319072][Rush Limbaugh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/21/magazine/how-to-slash-maul-and-jab-your-way-to-stardom.html][1996/01/21/0824224]]) "First off," thunders Cherry, *the Rush Limbaugh of* /hockey commentary/, "I'll say that Ulf is a rough, tough player who's very effective.
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1463696][Blue Edwards]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/22/sports/basketball-for-nelson-unpleasant-loss-unpleasant-questions.html][1996/01/22/0824652]]) He scored 9 points and grabbed only 4 rebounds in 27 minutes before being ejected in the fourth quarter along with *the Blue Edwards of* the Grizzlies.+
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11812][Thomas Jefferson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/24/movies/critic-s-notebook-fighting-over-the-new-talent-at-sundance.html][1996/01/24/0825044]]) Last year's overnight sensation, Edward Burns of "The Brothers McMullen," came out of nowhere and now has Jennifer Aniston acting in his new film and Robert Redford, *the Thomas Jefferson of* /Sundance/, helping as a creative consultant.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720558][Joe Namath]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/24/sports/super-bowl-xxx-the-cowboys-just-kick-back-and-enjoy-the-ride.html][1996/01/24/0825111]]) He was also asked: "Are you *the Joe Namath of* /the 90's/?"
12. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/25/movies/critic-s-notebook-on-how-to-suffer-and-the-reasons.html][1996/01/25/0825253]]) Mr. Cybulski's performance,  full of cynical bravado, established him as *the James Dean of* /Poland/.+ (D)
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/25/movies/on-how-to-suffer-and-the-reasons.html][1996/01/25/0825448]]) Mr. Cybulski's performance, full of cynical bravado, established him as *the James Dean of* /Poland/.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/26/sports/golf-new-club-alchemy-changes-steel-to-titanium.html][1996/01/26/0825563]]) It is titanium, *the Muhammad Ali of* /metals/ because it floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee and can take -- and deliver -- one heck of a punch.
15. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/arts/art-view-reclusive-old-masters-step-out-of-the-house.html][1996/01/28/0825817]]) Thanks either to him or to his example, the visitor to the Morgan can linger before *the Leonardo of* Leda and the Swan, the Poussin of Apollo and Daphne, the Rembrandt of an actor in his dressing room and the Rubens of a peasant girl churning butter.+
16. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5597][Raphael]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/arts/art-view-reclusive-old-masters-step-out-of-the-house.html][1996/01/28/0825817]]) One is *the Raphael of* "Three Nude Men in Attitudes of Terror."+
17. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/arts/art-view-reclusive-old-masters-step-out-of-the-house.html][1996/01/28/0825817]]) Thanks either to him or to his example, the visitor to the Morgan can linger before the Leonardo of Leda and the Swan, the Poussin of Apollo and Daphne, *the Rembrandt of* an actor in his dressing room and the Rubens of a peasant girl churning butter.+
18. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5599][Peter Paul Rubens]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/arts/art-view-reclusive-old-masters-step-out-of-the-house.html][1996/01/28/0825817]]) Thanks either to him or to his example, the visitor to the Morgan can linger before the Leonardo of Leda and the Swan, the Poussin of Apollo and Daphne, the Rembrandt of an actor in his dressing room and *the Rubens of* a peasant girl churning butter.+
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8016][Winston Churchill]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/magazine/rant-listen-exploit-learn-scare-help-manipulate-lead.html][1996/01/28/0825822]]) Have I told you I think Newt Gingrich is *the Winston Churchill of* /our age/?"
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q637200][Henry Higgins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/style/is-it-hip-to-be-cool-not-in-this-charm-school.html][1996/01/28/0826050]]) He's often referred to in the media as *the Henry Higgins of* /the black music world/.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1889422][Felix Unger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/tv/cover-story-talking-movies-buff-to-buff.html][1996/01/28/0826221]]) But the final word rests with Mr. Dorian, a lifelong movie fan whose office  is a library of film books, who can't read or watch a film without a yellow note pad in his lap and who calls himself *the Felix Unger of* /collectors of movie-related tidbits/.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188385][Gertrude Stein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/28/nyregion/here-there-everywhere-adviser-self-promoter-koch-lost-mayor-s-race-1989-didn-t.html][1996/01/28/0826222]]) Until recently, Mr. Koch held a kind of a salon for prominent New Yorkers on  Saturday evenings, as if he were *the Gertrude Stein of* /the late 20th century/.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7933536][Willie Sutton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/29/business/media-press-joey-skaggs-who-delights-practical-jokes-press-has-got-million-them.html][1996/01/29/0826314]]) WHEN it comes to gulling the news media, Joey Skaggs is an undisputed pro, *the Willie Sutton of* /the counterfeit news release/.
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5709887][Heloise]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/31/garden/spam-the-double-agent-who-knew.html][1996/01/31/0826614]]) "I didn't expect to be, like, *the Heloise of* /the 90's/," Mr. Green says, popping open the can of Spam.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44301][Jim Morrison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/31/movies/film-review-repression-a-painter-and-desire.html][1996/01/31/0826617]]) But "Excess and Punishment," which opens today at the Film Forum, makes no attempt to lionize Schiele as *the Jim Morrison of* /Austrian Expressionists/.
26. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1353754][John Starks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/02/sports/on-pro-basketball-starks-plays-it-smart-coming-off-bench.html][1996/02/02/0827180]]) Asked if the meeting with Nelson made him feel better about his role, Starks  said, "I just came out of it feeling I need to get back to being *the John Starks of* old, playing with a lot of energy."+
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1111386][Robert Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/04/nyregion/seeking-support-for-power-plan.html][1996/02/04/0827620]]) Mr. Gill said he was delighted with the board's action, adding, "Lee Koppelman is *the Robert Moses of* /Long Island/, and his support is very important."
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/05/nyregion/evan-jones-80-a-food-writer-renowned-for-his-own-cooking.html][1996/02/05/0827896]]) But with his wife rapidly gaining a reputation as "*the Julia Child of* /cookbook editors/" and with their own jointly cooked meals becoming such a New York institution that the critic Stanley Kauffmann once described their East 66th Street apartment as "the best restaurant in New York," Mr. Jones focused his writing increasingly on food.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214800][Calvin Klein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/08/us/russell-colley-designer-of-spacesuits-is-dead-at-97.html][1996/02/08/0828535]]) Russell Colley, a thwarted women's fashion designer who used his consolation  career as a mechanical engineer to become *the Calvin Klein of* /space wear/, died on Sunday at the Ohio Masonic Home in Springfield, Ohio.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/10/sports/marathon-just-call-bowman-alternative-runner.html][1996/02/10/0828890]]) But here she is anyway, *the Dennis Rodman of* /the running set/ with her spiked  haircut, an earring in her eyebrow, a tattoo of a rat on one leg and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" on the other.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236278][Tonya Harding]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/10/arts/television-review-very-messy-machinations-in-savannah.html][1996/02/10/0828923]]) Peyton is *the Tanya Harding of* /the plot/, seething with lower-class resentments.
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/11/nyregion/mr-delany-s-cosmic-neighborhood-for-this-author-new-york-stands-for-universe.html][1996/02/11/0829303]]) "If H. G. Wells is *the Shakespeare of* /science fiction/, then Samuel R. Delany  is its James Joyce," said Prof. David Samuelson of California State University at Long Beach, who has been studying Mr. Delany's work for 20 years.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/11/opinion/the-gop-s-grand-new-struggle.html][1996/02/11/0829501]]) Mr. Dole is *the Mozart of* /resentment/.
34. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95030][Warren Beatty]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/13/style/review-fashion-men-s-wear-on-the-move.html][1996/02/13/0829692]]) Mr. Tyler was inspired equally by Johnny Cash and *the Warren Beatty of* "Shampoo," with the swagger on his runway coming from jackets fitted with three  seams up the back and trousers tapered into a slight flare over clean roper-style cowboy boots.+
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180099][Margaret Mead]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/18/nyregion/neighborhood-report-west-side-ethnographer-ventures-depths-hell-s-kitchen.html][1996/02/18/0831070]]) Richard Curtis is *the Margaret Mead of* /Hell's Kitchen/, a "street ethnographer."
36. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1747364][Chris Childs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/19/sports/sports-of-the-times-childs-thinks-he-can-and-so-do-the-nets.html][1996/02/19/0831136]]) HE was thinking clearly, thinking relaxed this is *the Chris Childs of* today,  the sober Chris Childs -- thinking he had nothing to lose when he let fly with a 3-pointer, which found its mark and tied the score at 77-77 deep into the fourth quarter.+
37. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7314][Igor Stravinsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/21/arts/toru-takemitsu-65-introspective-composer-whose-music-evokes-east-andwest-is-dead.html][1996/02/21/0831635]]) That powerful work set forth the fundamentals of his style: a propulsive rhythmic motion that mixes steady ostinatos and jagged syncopations; sensuously dissonant harmonies, based  on *the Stravinsky of* "Le Sacre du Printemps" and "Les Noces"; high, tremulous vocal lines, alternating with chant and declamation.+
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214548][Andy Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/25/nyregion/about-long-island-meet-the-host.html][1996/02/25/0832619]]) For a while he starred in on-location Christmas shows, making him *the Andy Williams of* /Long Island/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11813][James Madison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/25/nyregion/long-island-journal-071790.html][1996/02/25/0832695]]) GARY SHAW of Greenlawn has become *the James Madison of* /Belarus/.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269890][Don Rickles]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/03/news/the-senator-cannot-help-being-himself.html][1996/03/03/0833973]]) "Albano called Margiotta *the Don Rickles of* /the Republican Party/," D'Amato recalls, then his shoulders start rocking, he whistles and throws his fist in the air exultantly, makes a hockey-game Whoooh noise followed by other stadium shouts.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311885][Patrick Henry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/05/us/oklahoma-grandparents-turn-grief-into-a-quest.html][1996/03/05/0834527]]) He was even listed as a speaker at an April conference at Lake Tahoe that will include Louis Beam, who has served as an ambassador at large for the Aryan  Nations, a white supremacist group, and is described by admirers as "*the Patrick Henry of* /our movement/."
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314805][Elliott Gould]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/movies/film-review-if-they-haven-t-found-love-by-30-they-ll-jump-well-ok.html][1996/03/08/0835139]]) All coy grins and daffy mugging, Mr. Stiller plays the role as if aspiring to become *the Elliott Gould of* /his generation/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1399][Niccolò Machiavelli]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/14/business/market-place-tobacco-s-broken-line-a-dealer-s-boldest-play-may-reshape-the-game.html][1996/03/14/0836529]]) For Bennett S. LeBow, *the Niccolo Machiavelli of* /the foxy deal/, yesterday's agreement to settle a giant class-action lawsuit against his Liggett Group tobacco company is being viewed as his masterpiece.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/17/sports/boxing-tyson-reclaims-his-first-championship-belt.html][1996/03/17/0837444]]) He talked of being *the Tyson of* /virtually another era/.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888302][Bob Vila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/17/nyregion/signoff-on-cable-on-the-web-on-the-plane.html][1996/03/17/0837471]]) The 34-year-old Mr. Bunting likes to say he is *the Bob Vila of* /computerdom/,  but he more closely resembles Susan Powter as a marketing phenonmenon.
46. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344793][George Burns]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/24/arts/television-view-long-ago-when-burns-wasn-t-so-lovable.html][1996/03/24/0838683]]) That's because *the George Burns of* my youth was not the huggably wise and wisecracking Jewish leprechaun he would become after "The Sunshine Boys" rejuvenated his career in 1975.+
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299331][Mario Lanza]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/24/nyregion/for-sherrill-milnes-verdi-s-perfect.html][1996/03/24/0838761]]) And I was not *the Mario Lanza of* /the school/.
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172261][John Malkovich]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/26/theater/critic-s-notebook-on-regional-stages-skepticism-with-swagger.html][1996/03/26/0839428]]) "The Libertine" seems tailor-made for *the John Malkovich of* movies like "Dangerous Liaisons" and "The Sheltering Sky."+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212531][Kate Moss]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/26/theater/critic-s-notebook-on-regional-stages-skepticism-with-swagger.html][1996/03/26/0839428]]) With his melting posture, moody eroticism and haunted gaze, Mr. Malkovich bids fair to become *the Kate Moss of* /acting/.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212963][Samuel Adams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/27/world/taybeh-journal-a-niche-beer-made-you-might-say-to-toast-peace.html][1996/03/27/0839520]]) "One told me I was *the Sam Adams of* /the Middle East/," Mr. Khoury said, grinning.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457840][Will Rogers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/29/nyregion/nyc-a-potent-cure-for-the-terrors-of-rural-living.html][1996/03/29/0840002]]) The National Rifle Association -- *the Will Rogers of* /lobbying groups/, having never met a gun it didn't like -- wanted all semiautomatics back on the market, and a House majority was happy to accommodate it.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/01/arts/television-review-a-portrait-of-a-legend-in-spotlight-and-shadow.html][1996/04/01/0840751]]) As the critic Molly Haskell puts it, "He was *the Leonardo of* /cinema/, and she was his Mona Lisa."
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/08/world/soroa-journal-mexican-hide-and-seek-in-a-cuban-playground.html][1996/04/08/0842318]]) In the year that has passed since Mr. Salinas was last seen publicly, he has  become *the Elvis of* /former presidents/.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1631][Édith Piaf]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/08/nyregion/chronicle-061131.html][1996/04/08/0842399]]) In a place like the Monkey Bar, I had to be able to play everything from tangos  to the songs of Om Kalsoum," the late singer he described as "*the Edith Piaf of* /Egypt/."
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/11/sports/baseball-20-million-yankee-pitcher-will-throw-in-the-minors.html][1996/04/11/0842911]]) in 25  1/3 innings) and won 44 games for the Texas Rangers over the last three years to the former Mets pitcher's 15, Rogers has inexplicably been treated like *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the Yankee staff/.
56. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q222134][Ted Kaczynski]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/15/business/technology-connections-fascination-with-unabomber-suspect-run-deep-internet.html][1996/04/15/0843912]]) Wherever he may have been during the 1960's, *the Unabomber of* more recent times did not find his way to the Net.+
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93188][Errol Flynn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/21/books/a-compulsion-for-music.html][1996/04/21/0845200]]) This prideful detachment was, of course, a mask: though one friend admiringly called him "*the Errol Flynn of* /losers/," others realized that Wilder was simply too unsure of his own gifts to make the fullest use of them.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319072][Rush Limbaugh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/21/nyregion/atlantic-city-gadfly-with-a-bite.html][1996/04/21/0845244]]) Harry Hurley is "*the Rush Limbaugh of* /Atlantic City/," said a competing morning talk radio host, Don Williams of WOND-AM, whose dominance of 14,000 listeners has been challenged by Mr. Hurley's growing popularity.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/24/garden/food-notes-097535.html][1996/04/24/0845834]]) Starbucks, *the King Kong of* /coffee bars/, is starting to move into the supermarket ice cream displays.
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/25/nyregion/on-day-2-the-tug-of-romance-outweighs-the-price-of-history.html][1996/04/25/0846131]]) "To me, David Ben-Gurion is *the George Washington of* /the State of Israel/ and Jackie Kennedy was the queen of the United States," he said.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106664][T. Berry Brazelton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/25/garden/the-housemother-of-the-show-house.html][1996/04/25/0846208]]) "I just treat them like children," said Mrs. MacDougall, *the T. Berry Brazelton of* /the decorating world/.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/27/movies/saul-bass-75-designer-dies-made-art-out-of-movie-titles.html][1996/04/27/0846499]]) He won such wide acclaim that he was sometimes called "*the Picasso of* /commercial artists/," and his work was included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution.
63. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/29/us/jesus-revisionists-draw-the-ire-of-a-jolly-elf.html][1996/04/29/0847174]]) "By pressing the question about *the Jesus of* history, we seek to avoid falling into a sentimental morass of religious subjectivity," he said, or into the "unchecked ideology" that may lurk behind the church's conventional images of Jesus.+
64. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/29/us/jesus-revisionists-draw-the-ire-of-a-jolly-elf.html][1996/04/29/0847174]]) For Christians, he concludes, "the normative Jesus" will never be the pre-Resurrection figure retrieved from behind the texts -- always a hypothetical portrait, even when the retrieval is done better than the current ones -- but *the Jesus of* the Gospel texts.+
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/02/sports/basketball-thompson-loses-one-iverson-turns-pro.html][1996/05/02/0847850]]) The conviction was later overturned by *the Virginia Court of* Appeals on grounds  of reasonable doubt about his participation in the brawl.+
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1277029][Red Skelton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/05/magazine/robert-thurman-doesn-t-look-buddhist.html][1996/05/05/0848246]]) Prof. P. Jeffrey Hopkins of the University of Virginia, Thurman's colleague and fellow translator, calls him "*the Red Skelton of* /Tibetan Buddhism/."
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/05/arts/television-view-and-how-one-did-so-with-particular-grace.html][1996/05/05/0848296]]) She was hailed as "clearly *the Mother Teresa of* /the small screen/."
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001][Mahatma Gandhi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/06/world/india-s-avenging-angel-candidate-of-low-castes.html][1996/05/06/0848753]]) Elsewhere, the 36-year-old candidate has been mobbed by enthusiastic lower-caste villagers who seem delighted by her description of herself as "*the Gandhi of* /Mirzapur/" -- meaning Mohandas K. Gandhi, the leader of India's freedom struggle and, most Indians would say, the greatest of all its crusaders for the  poor.
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/06/business/business-digest-028134.html][1996/05/06/0848805]]) Why, Perhaps, It's Called Classical  If television is *the Elvis of* /communications technologies/ and the Internet is Nirvana, radio is more like Bach.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203990][Marie Taglioni]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/06/arts/in-performance-028398.html][1996/05/06/0848831]]) Ms. Kent has become *the Marie Taglioni of* /the 1990's/, but with spunk, a dancer whose poetic lyricism calls to mind descriptions of that great 19th-century ballerina.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950][James Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/08/arts/music-in-review-032395.html][1996/05/08/0849224]]) He's *the James Brown of* /salsa/, with a tightly choreographed set and precise pop arrangements for his tunes.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/10/business/columbia-hca-to-pay-blue-cross-officials.html][1996/05/10/0849554]]) "Mr. Burry is *the Michael Jordan of* /integrating insurance and health care/, so he commands a pretty big salary," said William Silverman, a spokesman for Blue Cross.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/14/nyregion/jack-r-osborn-67-fervid-popularizer-and-champion-of-croquet.html][1996/05/14/0850533]]) In 1980, three years after he founded the Croquet Association, the governing body of the sport in the United States, Mr. Osborn said, "I look forward to the  time when I can go from one city to another, 52 weeks a year, like *the Johnny Appleseed of* /croquet/."
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720][Genghis Khan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/17/world/lesedi-cultural-village-journal-my-hut-is-your-hut-south-africa-s-new-tourism.html][1996/05/17/0851153]]) At the fireside, Mr. Dlamini told the story of Shaka, *the Genghis Khan of* /the Zulus/, from his illegitimate birth in a minor clan to his leadership of armies that swept southern Africa in the early 19th century.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/19/magazine/sports-extremist.html][1996/05/19/0851475]]) "You could tell she was *the Dennis Rodman of* /mountain biking/."
76. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/20/world/soccer-hero-voices-liberia-s-anguish.html][1996/05/20/0851983]]) Like *the Muhammad Ali of* a certain period, who was as preoccupied with injustice as with boxing, Mr. Weah is that rare sports hero whose outspokenness  is both fluid and fearless as he denounces the demons that have tortured his people.+
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5125309][Claire Shulman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/21/nyregion/new-star-constellation-art-s-giants-queens-landmark-wins-coveted-cultural-title.html][1996/05/21/0852275]]) "I say Golda Meir was *the Claire Shulman of* /Israel/."
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42992][Golda Meir]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/21/nyregion/new-star-constellation-art-s-giants-queens-landmark-wins-coveted-cultural-title.html][1996/05/21/0852275]]) "Some people say Claire Shulman is *the Golda Meir of* /Queens/," said John S. Dyson, the outgoing Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Finance, responsible for cultural financing.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168491][Charlie Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/26/sports/basketball-as-nets-wait-for-pitino-magic-may-wait-in-wings.html][1996/05/26/0853475]]) Still, this is New Jersey, *the Charlie Brown of* /franchises/, where high expectations get tangled like a kite in a tree, where "good grief" is a normal post-game comment.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723274][John Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/28/nyregion/episcopal-bishop-hails-victory-on-gay-priests.html][1996/05/28/0853767]]) "If I could be remembered as *the John Robinson of* /my generation/," he said, "that would be high praise."
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310839][Adlai Stevenson I]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/weekinreview/in-israel-fears-decide-which-road-not-to-travel.html][1996/06/02/0854862]]) It should have been no great surprise that a significant majority of  Israeli Jews would vote their fears in an anxious time, finding Mr. Peres, whose aloofness and political stumbles make him *the Adlai Stevenson of* /Israeli politics/, less credible on the issue that mattered most to them: security.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/09/nyregion/about-long-island-an-unlikely-candidate-in-east-hampton.html][1996/06/09/0856237]]) "He's *the Ross Perot of* /East Hampton/," said Bruce Moore, owner of Bruce's Seafood market.
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/09/nyregion/on-the-map-in-west-orange-saving-a-shrine-to-a-messy-grumpy-genius.html][1996/06/09/0856351]]) It said that since there seems to be a  general consensus that Gates is *the Edison of* /his day/, you ought to hit him up for money.
84. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/12/business/market-place-lexmark-makes-money-but-does-not-excite-investors.html][1996/06/12/0857201]]) "I call Lexmark *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /printer companies/," said Steve Milunovich, an analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company, which co-managed the company's November offering.+ (D)
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/12/business/lexmark-makes-money-but-does-not-excite-investors.html][1996/06/12/0857282]]) ''I call Lexmark *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /printer companies/,'' said Steve Milunovich, an analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company, which co-managed the company's November offering.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1111386][Robert Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/13/nyregion/without-streets-and-loving-it-in-this-li-neighborhood-walks-are-a-way-of-life.html][1996/06/13/0857512]]) Whatever their origin, it is unlikely the walks came about without the permission, if not the involvement, of William H. Reynolds, *the Robert Moses of* /Long Beach/.
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/14/sports/hockey-smith-s-goal-baby-blueshirts.html][1996/06/14/0857634]]) He said he would bid on free agents "if *the Michael Jordan of* /hockey/" becomes available.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1398][Virgil]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/16/books/the-dammed.html][1996/06/16/0858002]]) A historian and journalist by training, he has nonetheless striven for years to bear witness to Montana history in fiction, and to become if not the Homer at least *the Virgil of* /generations of Scots who migrated to northwestern Montana before and after it became a state in 1889/.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/23/business/investing-it-a-smart-gambler-s-travels-in-the-land-of-biotech.html][1996/06/23/0859503]]) But Kevin J. Kinsella, known as *the P. T. Barnum of* /biotech/,  has come very close to living the myth.
90. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/23/business/inside-034827.html][1996/06/23/0859504]]) INVESTING IT /Page 4/ Kevin J. Kinsella, known as *the P. T. Barnum of* biotech, sees genomics as the basis of all future drug discovery.+
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322][Christopher Columbus]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/26/garden/for-germans-a-kebab-filled-with-social-significance.html][1996/06/26/0860266]]) Our goal is to be *the Christopher Columbus of* /doner/."
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12306][Millard Fillmore]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/26/us/x-rays-hint-at-foul-play-for-king-tut.html][1996/06/26/0860364]]) Ayh lived only a few more years and seems to have been *the Millard Fillmore of* /Pharoahs/.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11116][Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/opinion/single-sex-schools-and-double-standards.html][1996/07/03/0862081]]) This prospect would have made *the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of* the 1970's proud.+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312348][Thurgood Marshall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/opinion/single-sex-schools-and-double-standards.html][1996/07/03/0862081]]) Her decision, in fact, can be read in several ways, and not all of the interpretations are easy to reconcile with the vision of equal-treatment feminism that she championed as *the Thurgood Marshall of* /the women's movement in the 1970's/.
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95034][John Barrymore]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/05/arts/happy-trails-along-the-hudson.html][1996/07/05/0862461]]) FOR most of this century, the Hudson has been *the John Barrymore of* /rivers/, noble in profile but a sorry wreck.
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/06/nyregion/finding-way-swing-for-fences-softball-helps-recovering-addicts-learn-discipline.html][1996/07/06/0862685]]) Precious is her name, but at the plate she is the power lady, *the Babe Ruth of* /a no-nonsense league/.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327071][Paul Revere]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/06/arts/librarians-challenge-offering-internet.html][1996/07/06/0862725]]) Ms. Turock, 59, blond, with a voice like honey, has been called "*the Paul Revere of* /the Information Age/" by the Librarian of Congress, James Billington.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11812][Thomas Jefferson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/09/sports/tv-sports-fox-s-baseball-pre-game-show-riddled-with-errors.html][1996/07/09/0863379]]) And I guess you could say Frank Thomas is *the Thomas Jefferson of* /baseball/."
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497827][Sam Walton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/14/magazine/a-fundamental-problem.html][1996/07/14/0864251]]) Though little known to the general public, Dobson is *the Sam Walton of* /the family values movement/, a distributor with unparalleled reach.
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7245][Mark Twain]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/21/arts/the-new-sound-of-early-music.html][1996/07/21/0866407]]) The image I always have is, this is a  river town, and he's like *the Mark Twain of* /early music/.
101. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16214355][Romeo Brin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/22/sports/atlanta-day-3-boxing-big-man-from-cuba-comes-out-sluggish.html][1996/07/22/0866556]]) Yosvany Aguilera outpointed Stefan Strom of Sweden in the 106-pound class, and the lightweight Julio Gonzalez beat *the Romeo Brin of* the Philippines.+
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/25/garden/where-to-find-it-folding-chairs.html][1996/07/25/0867025]]) meetings and bridge parties, folding chairs, *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the home-furnishings world/, are stashed in a closet when not in use.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190924][Michael Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/27/sports/sports-of-the-times-low-profile-high-drama-competition.html][1996/07/27/0867603]]) Godina, competing in his first Games, considered himself *the Michael Johnson of* /shot-putters/.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1261570][Frank Gifford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/28/sports/sports-of-the-times-our-man-on-line-one-hand-on-remote-one-on-mouse.html][1996/07/28/0867931]]) There were potshots at other commentators, most notably John Tesh, whom Todd  called "*the Frank Gifford of* /gymnastics/.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7416][Margaret Thatcher]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/31/world/netanyahu-infuriates-unions-by-assault-on-welfare-state.html][1996/07/31/0868645]]) For Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative new Prime Minister, cutting those subsidies and slashing that work force rank high in a quest to become *the Margaret Thatcher of* /Israel/.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/03/sports/brazil-s-female-stars-finally-have-a-medal.html][1996/08/03/0869199]]) And, of course, *the Michael Jordan of* /Brazilian basketball for the past 20 years/, has simply been known as Oscar.
107. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309648][Charles Ives]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/books/bring-in-da-noise.html][1996/08/04/0869459]]) The listener who admires *the Charles Ives of* romantic legend and a few selected pieces but often finds the music rambling and lacking in technical rigor may be prodded to revisit scores and recordings, not only of familiar works like the ''Concord'' Sonata, ''Three Places in New England'' and the Second Symphony but of more problematical works like the mammoth Fourth Symphony, the strangely offhand songs and the forbidding Second String Quartet.+
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190924][Michael Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/sports/atlanta-day-16-tennis.html][1996/08/04/0869687]]) It's one thing to win a gold medal, but the way he dominated, he was *the Michael Johnson of* /the tennis field/ today.''
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103767][Charlie Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/09/movies/a-postcard-picture-of-a-graffiti-artist.html][1996/08/09/0870295]]) But for all its admiration, ''Basquiat'' winds up no closer to that assessment than to the critic Robert Hughes's more jaundiced one: ''Far from being *the Charlie Parker of* /SoHo/ (as his promoters claimed), he became its Jessica Savitch.''
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43423][Aesop]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/09/movies/parables-that-blend-love-and-philosophy.html][1996/08/09/0870300]]) Eric Rohmer's ''Rendezvous in Paris'' is an oasis of contemplative intelligence in the summer movie season, presenting three graceful and elegant parables with the moral agility that distinguishes Mr. Rohmer as *the Aesop of* /amour/.
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213550][Billy Graham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/09/arts/masterworks-on-vacation-at-the-met.html][1996/08/09/0870316]]) As in the past, the preponderance are Venetian pictures: Tiepolos, Guardis, Canalettos and a Jacopo Bellini that is surgically precise, and movingly so: a small depiction of the sallow, toothless and hollow-eyed St. Bernardino of Siena, who as a popular preacher was something like *the Billy Graham of* /Bellini's day/.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/11/nyregion/behind-the-victorian-facade-the-servants-who-made-it-work.html][1996/08/11/0870605]]) ''The scullery maid was the lowest position,'' Ms. Maher said, ''like *the Cinderella of* /the place/.''
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132524][Ayn Rand]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/11/books/all-this-and-heaven-too.html][1996/08/11/0870785]]) That would probably be bearable if the books weren't getting progressively less readable; but she's *the Ayn Rand of* /the spirit realm/.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/13/us/fleeing-the-ghost-of-1992.html][1996/08/13/0871265]]) The people who ran things four years ago are out, and people who made Republican images in happier days are back -- people like Michael J. Deaver, *the Michelangelo of* /the balloon drop/, and the joint impresarios here, William I. Greener 3d and Paul J. Manafort, who both made their names in the 1980's, heyday of Ronald Reagan.
115. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319079][Bob Dole]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/16/us/dole-presents-the-future-as-tale-of-two-candidates.html][1996/08/16/0871705]]) But for all of his resolve, *the Bob Dole of* this speech is also fair, imbued with a sense of justice, social responsibility and compassion by his life experience and his father's love for ''a son who was thought to be dying in an Army hospital.''+
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319079][Bob Dole]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/16/us/dole-presents-the-future-as-tale-of-two-candidates.html][1996/08/16/0871705]]) But lest his listeners think of him as sentimental, *the Bob Dole of* this speech is also a man of resolve.+
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/16/us/ideals-and-grit-and-a-vast-imponderable.html][1996/08/16/0871746]]) They bemoaned its dearth of fresh ideas and its reliance on the technological and dramatic capabilities of television, epitomized by Elizabeth Dole's performance as *the Oprah Winfrey of* /nominating night/.
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5928][Jimi Hendrix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/19/arts/reveling-in-retro-pop-ear-piercings-only.html][1996/08/19/0872309]]) He even tried to be *the Jimi Hendrix of* /the harp/, performing a distorted solo version of ''The Star-Spangled Banner,'' complete with modulated feedback.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40504][Jim Carrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/22/opinion/ted-s-excellent-idea.html][1996/08/22/0872803]]) America's flashiest extrovert, *the Jim Carrey of* /capitalism/, has gone existential on us.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136687][Tommy Hilfiger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/25/business/how-young-is-too-young-for-ceo-s.html][1996/08/25/0873205]]) We consider Mossimo *the Tommy Hilfiger of* /Generation X/.''
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106465][John Grisham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/25/movies/from-saturday-night-live-to-jane-austen.html][1996/08/25/0873390]]) And this was before, of course, I knew that Jane Austen was going to turn out to be *the John Grisham of* /the Romantic novel set/.''
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/25/books/final-judgments.html][1996/08/25/0873426]]) But alas, *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /Saddle River/ got no enduring respect from the Clintons.
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234952][Betsy Ross]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/26/business/the-designer-who-made-the-mac-smile.html][1996/08/26/0873568]]) Sometimes called *the Betsy Ross of* /the personal computer/, Ms. Kare did path-breaking work on the original Macintosh in the early 1980's,  including the image of a miniature Mac with a smiley face that greets users when the machine is turned on, and the trash can.
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103774][Ravi Shankar]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/28/garden/shop-and-chop-a-tomato-challenge.html][1996/08/28/0873866]]) Gazing fondly at his creations with a mysterious, beatific smile, Mr. Romano was obviously *the Ravi Shankar of* /tomato chefs/.
125. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7487681][Shams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/29/arts/mocking-the-shams-of-rock-but-borrowing-all-the-styles.html][1996/08/29/0874044]]) Mocking *the Shams of* Rock, But Borrowing All the Styles+
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q521145][Mario Cuomo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/29/us/it-may-be-the-party-of-the-future-but-it-has-few-young-stars.html][1996/08/29/0874139]]) Conceivably, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, 53, though he is turning away from elective politics for the moment and may end up as *the Mario Cuomo of* /his generation/.
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/30/arts/new-york-cradle-of-labor-history.html][1996/08/30/0874232]]) She became known as *the Cinderella of* /the Sweatshops/ because after she interviewed James Graham Phelps Stokes, a millionaire who helped run University Settlement, he asked her to marry him.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/06/books/life-beyond-avenue-a.html][1996/09/06/0875520]]) Mr. Bregovich, partly sarcastic, partly serious and partly flushed from the wine, replied, ''I am *the John Wayne of* /the restaurant frontier/.''
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448496][Deborah Tannen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/08/magazine/scores-count.html][1996/09/08/0875849]]) Delpit, who won a MacArthur ''genius'' grant in 1990, is *the Deborah Tannen of* /school reform/, explaining to many white educators why ''you just don't understand.''
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/08/books/in-search-of-the-center.html][1996/09/08/0875875]]) He characterizes the present as a period in which ''polarizers'' -- *the Bill Clinton of* 1993 and the Newt Gingrich of 1995 -- have kept ''the system from its normal tendency.''+
131. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182788][Newt Gingrich]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/08/books/in-search-of-the-center.html][1996/09/08/0875875]]) He characterizes the present as a period in which ''polarizers'' -- the Bill Clinton of 1993 and *the Newt Gingrich of* 1995 -- have kept ''the system from its normal tendency.''+
132. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166835][Wallace Stevens]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/08/books/angels-in-america.html][1996/09/08/0875951]]) Others, however, may prefer to take their stand with *the Wallace Stevens of* ''An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,'' for whom spirit is not ''imprisoned in constant change'' but freely embraces ''a permanence composed of impermanence.''+
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/15/nyregion/l-friends-have-i-gone-hollywood-284793.html][1996/09/15/0877245]]) If you're picturing me grilling my eggplant at home all week because I can't compete with Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg for a table at Della Femina's (He's that big bald advertising guy who's kind of *the Donald Trump of* /East Hampton/), forget it.
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/15/nyregion/also-inside-322997.html][1996/09/15/0877451]]) 4  For talk, news and advice on everything from cooking to culture, listeners turn to *the Oprah Winfrey of* /Korean radio/.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308115][Michael Clark]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/16/arts/a-provocateur-at-large-in-the-world-of-flamenco.html][1996/09/16/0877682]]) Joaquin Cortes, a 27-year-old flamenco dancer who is being marketed by his management as the equivalent of a rock star, turns out to be *the Michael Clark of* /Spanish dance/.
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296698][Costa-Gavras]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/19/arts/troupe-emerges-in-eclectic-identity.html][1996/09/19/0878125]]) Not just *the Costa-Gavras of* /European contemporary dance/, Mr. Bruce has previously turned to the theme of ''the disappeared'' in Latin America.
137. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/magazine/the-trickle-down-theory.html][1996/09/22/0878550]]) Thus does *the Mozart of* ''Die Zauberflote'' morph into the Mozart of ''Elvira Madigan'' and from there into the Mickey Mouse Mozart of ''Heigh-Ho!+
138. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/magazine/the-trickle-down-theory.html][1996/09/22/0878550]]) Thus does the Mozart of ''Die Zauberflote'' morph into *the Mozart of* ''Elvira Madigan'' and from there into the Mickey Mouse Mozart of ''Heigh-Ho!+
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613136][Walter Reed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/theater/details-reveal-a-prim-heroine-s-lifetime-longings.html][1996/09/22/0878601]]) Harry Hamlin is attractive as the adult John, the one-time wastrel who miraculously redeems himself as *the Walter Reed of* /an off-stage fever epidemic/.
140. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187019][Philip Roth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/23/books/life-of-paul-theroux-told-in-theroux-novel.html][1996/09/23/0879012]]) Mr. Theroux's idea in ''My Other Life,'' which cannot help but put readers in mind of *the Philip Roth of* ''The Counterlife'' or ''The Facts,'' is to create a playful, genre-splicing form wherein author turns into character thereby enabling a kind of literary escape from his habitual identity.+
141. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/arts/old-brahms-a-modernist-in-more-ways-than-one.html][1996/09/29/0879953]]) But Mozart the metaphysical modernist was not *the Mozart of* late 19th-century musical taste, especially Viennese musical taste, which had transformed him into the wigged and powdered puppet of a bygone age of security and grace.+
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102462][James Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/movies/through-a-lens-very-very-darkly.html][1996/09/29/0879966]]) AMY HECKERLING, WHO wrote and directed ''Clueless'' and calls Mr. Pope ''*the Jimmy Stewart of* /D.P./
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912331][Billy Carter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/30/sports/at-the-wave-of-a-flag-winston-cup-packs-up.html][1996/09/30/0880417]]) And North Wilkesboro has always had a reputation as *the Billy Carter of* /Nascar tracks/: not a place to go on a first date.
144. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7794533][Thomas Trantino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/03/nyregion/two-1963-slayings-still-rouse-passions-in-lodi-nj.html][1996/10/03/0880959]]) Not *the Thomas Trantino of* old photographs, neat in a suit and tie, clean-shaven.+
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/04/books/polish-poet-observer-of-daily-life-wins-nobel.html][1996/10/04/0881092]]) In its award citation, the Swedish Academy noted that Ms. Szymborska has been described as ''*the Mozart of* /poetry/, not without justice in view of her wealth of inspiration and the veritable ease with which her words seem to fall into place.''
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436187][George Raft]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/magazine/godfather-of-exotic-modernism.html][1996/10/06/0881370]]) James Mont, dapper and mustachioed, was *the George Raft of* /American design/, a carnation in his buttonhole and brass knuckles in his pocket.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887520][Harold Stassen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/08/us/hardy-perennial-leads-utah-contest.html][1996/10/08/0882026]]) Now, after accidents of circumstance, *the Harold Stassen of* /Utah/ may be poised to represent the state's Second Congressional District, which includes most of Salt Lake County.
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215777][Hank Aaron]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/08/us/dole-full-of-zip-goes-after-voters-from-new-jersey.html][1996/10/08/0882093]]) He's *the Hank Aaron of* /tax increasers/.''
149. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6294][Hillary Clinton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/magazine/running-against-hillary.html][1996/10/13/0883224]]) For a few fleeting minutes here today, it seemed as if *the Hillary Rodham Clinton of* old were back.+
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34453][Boris Yeltsin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/19/world/yeltsin-is-backed-on-lebed-s-ouster.html][1996/10/19/0884221]]) ''Openly speaking,'' he continued, ''I think he is like *the Boris Yeltsin of* 1987,'' the year when Mr. Yeltsin emerged to challenge the former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who had humiliated and belittled him in much the same way that Mr. Yeltsin has now done to Mr. Lebed.+
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/nyregion/it-looked-like-araby-but-it-was-really-the-east-end.html][1996/10/20/0884346]]) ''Valentino was *the James Dean of* /the silent period/,'' said Michael Edelson, a film historian who teaches at the State University at Stony Brook.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317638][Jimmy Hoffa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/nyregion/l-french-fries-as-hand-food-perish-the-thought-900648.html][1996/10/20/0884732]]) Etiquette will continue to be *the Jimmy Hoffa of* /belief systems/ for as long as your publication endorses the notion that French fries, asparagus and shrimp are hand foods.
153. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/travel/puerto-rico-beyond-the-mountains.html][1996/10/27/0885902]]) Frederick Leighton's ''Flaming June'' -- which has been so widely reproduced that it's known as *the Mona Lisa of* the Caribbean -- was on loan to a gallery in London, but has since been returned.+
154. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5816][Mao Zedong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/31/style/back-to-school-for-grown-ups.html][1996/10/31/0886718]]) She swapped political icon for religious icon with images of Buddha replacing *the Mao Zedong of* past seasons, on a sleek gold brocade coat.+
155. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1934948][John Hoskins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/03/arts/henrys-georges-and-victorias-writ-small.html][1996/11/03/0887212]]) ''There's *the John Hoskins of* Charles I's first wife, Henrietta Maria, and the Hugh May by Samuel Cooper.+
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/03/nyregion/a-movement-misses-its-nurturing-mother.html][1996/11/03/0887445]]) ''She has been *the Rosa Parks of* /the gay and lesbian movement in Queens/,'' said Mr. Dromm, co-chairman of the Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee.
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7317][Giuseppe Verdi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/07/arts/a-high-voltage-dynamo-named-domingo.html][1996/11/07/0888251]]) As a curtain raiser for his stewardship in Washington, he could scarcely have come up with a more exotic production than the 1860's adventure-romance in the rain forest by Antonio Carlos Gomes, who was known as ''*the Verdi of* /Brazil/.''
158. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294583][Sam Shepard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/08/theater/sam-shepard-of-today-and-of-many-days-ago.html][1996/11/08/0888376]]) You can meet *the Sam Shepard of* yesterday and the Sam Shepard of today, as well as two of his many alter egos, in an exquisitely produced double bill of one-act plays now at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.+
159. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294583][Sam Shepard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/08/theater/sam-shepard-of-today-and-of-many-days-ago.html][1996/11/08/0888376]]) You can meet the Sam Shepard of yesterday and *the Sam Shepard of* today, as well as two of his many alter egos, in an exquisitely produced double bill of one-act plays now at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.+
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368866][Joe Orton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/10/arts/even-the-art-museums-can-t-escape-her-barbs.html][1996/11/10/0888802]]) Ms. Eisenman, 30, is a social satirist, sort of *the Joe Orton of* /visual artists/.
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34851][Elizabeth Taylor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/13/sports/scent-of-locker-room-in-eau-de-jordan.html][1996/11/13/0889510]]) Bijan wants Jordan to be *the Elizabeth Taylor of* /men's fragrances/ -- not the now-retired Gabriela Sabatini, whose Gabriela perfume is no Chanel No.
162. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/13/sports/the-nba-and-iverson-one-on-one.html][1996/11/13/0889583]]) He was granted clemency -- and the conviction was later overturned by *the Virginia Court of* Appeals -- and John Thompson offered him a scholarship.+
163. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7356939][Rodney Hampton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/14/sports/hampton-turns-a-step-too-slow.html][1996/11/14/0889737]]) But he is not *the Rodney Hampton of* previous seasons that everyone came to know and respect.+
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/17/nyregion/surviving-in-a-tough-business-and-doing-so-with-panache.html][1996/11/17/0890270]]) ''We began with Escoffier and were influenced by Alice Waters,'' said Markus Peter, referring to *the Julia Child of* /Berkeley, Calif./, who championed the use of organic and locally grown produce.
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/19/sports/althea-gibson-s-long-days.html][1996/11/19/0890745]]) ''She was *the Jackie Robinson of* /tennis/, being first and doing it with so much pride and dignity.
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q954184][Deion Sanders]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/20/us/a-mayor-slides-off-his-pedestal.html][1996/11/20/0890930]]) Mr. Brown, who reveled in his reputation as *the Deion Sanders of* /city government/ -- brashness and talent in equal measure -- has responded in an uncharacteristic way: he apologized.
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/24/books/putting-the-pleasant-in-pleasantville.html][1996/11/24/0891496]]) Having once sold farmers' digests to feed stores, *the Henry Ford of* /journalism/ returned to America from World War I and began his new magazine in 1922, condensing articles in longhand in the New York Public Library, typing them up and delivering the pieces by hand to a mail train for the printers; by the late 1920's, subscriptions were being handled by the Pleasantville Women's Club, and by 1936, unfazed by the Depression, his secular Good News Bible was reaching 1.8 million readers.
168. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/24/nyregion/surveying-realism-in-celebration-of-hopper.html][1996/11/24/0891519]]) Then, raising ambivalence to the level of an art form, Mr. Milazzo suggests that Realism has become *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /categories/ because more bad art is committed in its name than in those of Abstraction and Conceptualism.
169. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/24/travel/in-japan-a-perch-for-astro-boy.html][1996/11/24/0891559]]) Osamu Tezuka, known as *the Walt Disney of* /Japan/, developed the modern Japanese form of comics and animation in the decades after World War II.
170. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5431219][Faith Popcorn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/25/business/decoding-what-screen-agers-think-about-tv.html][1996/11/25/0891933]]) Profile of Douglas Rushkoff, 35-year-old consultant who tells television producers and network executives how to reach people under 30, the market's future; that he is highly paid and in great demand by networks is a sign of the high anxiety among many companies today; some critics have dismissed him as *the Faith Popcorn of* his generation, promoting youth trends with pop slogans of dubious validity; photo (M)+
171. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5431219][Faith Popcorn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/25/business/decoding-what-screen-agers-think-about-tv.html][1996/11/25/0891933]]) Salon, a publication on the World Wide Web, called him *the Faith Popcorn of* /his generation/, promoting youth trends with pop slogans of dubious validity.
172. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/01/weekinreview/us-and-china-spin-a-tale-of-warmth.html][1996/12/01/0893117]]) The Chinese have warned the Walt Disney Company that unless it  drops production of a film about *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet -- a film that Disney doesn't even plan to show in China -- the company's hopes of bringing Mickey Mouse into the homes of every Chinese child could be jeopardized.+
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/03/business/banner-ads-on-internet-attract-users.html][1996/12/03/0893306]]) But a new study from Hotwired, the Internet media service of Wired Ventures Inc., concludes that banner advertising perhaps ought not to be considered *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /interactive advertising/.
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272929][Rosie O'Donnell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/04/garden/crisp-rich-words-for-cookie-bakers.html][1996/12/04/0893389]]) Ms. Rosenberg writes like *the Rosie O'Donnell of* /cookie makers/, which can be a little scary.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253384][Loretta Young]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/06/theater/on-stage-and-off.html][1996/12/06/0893750]]) I'm *the Loretta Young of* /drag/.''
176. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/06/business/2-michael-jordans-dash-spike-lee-could-add-up-successful-public-service-campaign.html][1996/12/06/0893794]]) ''Initially we had *the Michael Jordan of* the College Fund, who actually could shoot, making all his shots,'' said Marvin Waldman, executive vice president and group creative director at Y.& R. New York.+
177. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/06/business/2-michael-jordans-dash-spike-lee-could-add-up-successful-public-service-campaign.html][1996/12/06/0893794]]) ''Our Michael Jordan liked the idea, and we discussed it with the representatives of *the Michael Jordan of* the Bulls.+
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452206][Judith Krantz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/08/books/revenge-of-the-christmas-novels.html][1996/12/08/0894123]]) One book that lives way beyond its potential is A MAGICAL CHRISTMAS (Topaz/Dutton Signet, $14.95), by Heather Graham, who turns out to be *the Judith Krantz of* /holiday fiction/.
179. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60029][Oskar Schindler]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/12/world/at-the-rape-of-nanking-a-nazi-who-saved-lives.html][1996/12/12/0895003]]) But to me, John Rabe is *the Oskar Schindler of* /China/, another example of good in the face of evil.''
180. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473208][Roger Clemens]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/12/sports/is-rocket-worth-it-at-age-34.html][1996/12/12/0895038]]) So if the Yankees sign him, only time, not the dollars, will tell if they have acquired an old Roger Clemens or *the Roger Clemens of* old.+
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51516][John Madden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/20/sports/no-more-knocking-the-suns.html][1996/12/20/0896612]]) He spoke with his usual candor, and his partner, Verne Lundquist, thought he might eventually become ''*the John Madden of* /basketball announcers/.''
182. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7304][Gustav Mahler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/22/arts/listening-for-the-other-mahler-the-hopeful-one.html][1996/12/22/0896893]]) This is *the Mahler of* the grotesque scherzos, the lachrymose funeral marches, the tragic hammer blows.+
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/22/nyregion/long-island-journal-799459.html][1996/12/22/0896911]]) His 16-by-8-foot sign, ''DEMILITARIZED ZONE - AHEAD,'' made him *the Picasso of* /the regiment/.
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453251][Horatio Alger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/22/movies/a-free-speech-hero-it-s-not-that-simple.html][1996/12/22/0896921]]) He is *the Horatio Alger of* /the sexual revolution/, a poor Kentucky boy who parlays a string of seedy Ohio strip joints into a porn publishing empire, getting rich and having fun while thumbing his nose at the establishment.
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75021][Jackie Mason]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/26/garden/a-mill-comes-back-to-life-and-a-community-with-it.html][1996/12/26/0897637]]) ''That had to be part of the equation,'' she said, adding that her spiritual adviser was ''*the Jackie Mason of* /rabbinic law/, very funny, very brilliant.''
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172140][Michael Crichton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/27/books/the-new-jules-verne-like-1984-but-older.html][1996/12/27/0897742]]) Jules Verne was *the Michael Crichton of* /the 19th century/, a fabulist whose ability to link technology with imagination to create riveting pop-culture products was uncanny.

** 1997
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41508][Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/01/arts/challenge-to-the-origin-of-a-florentine-chapel.html][1997/01/01/0898757]]) ''In 20th-century terms, if the visionary, uncompromising Brunelleschi was *the Mies van der Rohe of* /the quattrocento/, his follower Michelozzo was its pliant, agile Philip Johnson,'' Mr. Trachtenberg wrote.
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183528][Philip Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/01/arts/challenge-to-the-origin-of-a-florentine-chapel.html][1997/01/01/0898757]]) Institute of Fine Arts since 1967, refers to Michelozzo as ''*the Philip Johnson of* /the 15th century/.'')
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/02/arts/a-year-to-hear-america-drumming.html][1997/01/02/0898946]]) Singing and rapping amid the sonic detritus of four decades, *the Bob Dylan of* /the digital-sampling era/ ponders the death of modernism, the anxiety of influence and a ''karaoke weekend at the suicide shack,'' turning disorientation into a dance move.
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/02/business/china-s-demand-for-control-pits-ethics-against-profits.html][1997/01/02/0898984]]) More recently came Disney, which was warned in the fall that if it wanted to bring Mickey Mouse to Chinese children, it had better rethink its forthcoming film about *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet.+
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/03/nyregion/sam-brach-ruled-in-kew-gardens-hills-times-change.html][1997/01/03/0899132]]) After all is said, after all is done, Sam Brach, Holocaust survivor, butcher, philanthropist, political power broker, supermarket pioneer, may well be remembered as *the Bill Gates of* /kosher in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens/.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/05/education/a-campus-cartoon-trend-moves-on.html][1997/01/05/0899700]]) Buena Vista Home Entertainment, the distribution arm of Disney, recently acquired a library of Japanimation created by a man often hailed as ''*the Walt Disney of* /Japan/,'' Hiyao Miyazaki.
7. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/05/education/a-campus-cartoon-trend-moves-on.html][1997/01/05/0899700]]) Buena Vista Home Entertainment acquires library of Japanimation, type of high-quality, sci-fi Japanese cartoon film loved by American college students; films were created by Hiyao Miyazaki, called '*the Walt Disney of* Japan'; they will be available on home-video market; photos (special section, Education Life, part 2 of 2-part section) (M)+
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31073][Walter Cronkite]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/15/sports/now-palmer-faces-tough-new-course.html][1997/01/15/0901834]]) Palmer's enduring believability has, in fact, made him *the Walter Cronkite of* /sweat/.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/17/world/rock-singer-s-raucous-role-serbia-s-jeer-leader.html][1997/01/17/0902211]]) Mr. Djordjevic (pronounced GEORGE-uh-vitch) has emerged as *the Bob Dylan of* /the protest movement that has swept Serbia since the Government's annulment of election victories by the opposition in 14 of the country's 18 largest cities/.
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36724][Attila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/18/world/the-marketing-of-an-ancient-capital-s-mysteries.html][1997/01/18/0902375]]) It also isn't known why the local Shona people weren't living in cities when the hunter-explorer Adam Renders arrived in 1868, although this slice of Africa was in turmoil from droughts, disease, slavers and invasions by whites and by rival tribes fleeing the fierce empire-building of Shaka, *the Attila of* /Zululand/, hundreds of miles to the south.
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7207][Elizabeth I of England]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/19/nyregion/2-concert-virtuosos-to-make-county-debut.html][1997/01/19/0902760]]) Another fine young violinist, Jay Zhong, is preparing to enter *the Queen Elizabeth of* Belgium International Competition.+
12. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339][Johann Sebastian Bach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/24/arts/minimalism-as-an-18th-century-idea.html][1997/01/24/0903920]]) And, as was suggested at the symposium, the connection depends not on Bach as played in 1997 but on Bach as heard in the 1950's and 60's, when the minimalist generation was growing up: *the Bach of* Glenn Gould and Wendy Carlos.+
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329398][John Carter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/26/movies/the-names-came-from-earth.html][1997/01/26/0904390]]) Princess Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) has braids that resemble dinner rolls, but her name evokes the lovely Princess Dejah Thoris in *the John Carter of* Mars tales by Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as Lady Galadriel of Lothlorien in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings.''+
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43203][Clint Eastwood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/26/us/a-high-tech-library-ignites-dispute-over-computers-vs-books.html][1997/01/26/0904614]]) As Mr. Dowlin arrived in San Francisco nine years ago, a local newspaper columnist suggested that the city would need *the Clint Eastwood of* /librarians/ to deal with its lawless athenaeum.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/30/theater/the-pop-life-402222.html][1997/01/30/0905330]]) In the late 1960's and early 70's, the English folk and rock singer Roy Harper was set to burst out of the underground and become *the Bob Dylan of* /the United Kingdom/.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333405][Perry Como]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/arts/flirting-yet-turning-songs-into-impassioned-vows.html][1997/01/31/0905488]]) Kenny G. (whose last name is Gorelick) is *the Perry Como of* /saxophonists/, a crooner of comforting melodies, the musical equivalent of warm milk.
17. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6294][Hillary Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/us/first-lady-re-emerges-with-an-aid-plan-for-tiny-businesses.html][1997/01/31/0905520]]) But while the Hillary Clinton who testified on Capitol Hill about health care was not on display today, neither was *the Hillary Clinton of* the 1996 Presidential campaign, who shunned reporters and stuck mostly to safe topics and friendly crowds.+
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221535][Eddie Vedder]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/09/arts/american-pie-25-years-ago-america-listened.html][1997/02/09/0907512]]) On the stark black-and-white cover of his next album, he is seen hunched over, staring grimly; its songs bemoaned his fame, making him *the Eddie Vedder of* /his day/.
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q289398][Chris Mullin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/10/sports/a-few-still-wait-for-felipe-lopez.html][1997/02/10/0907989]]) He was going to be St. John's savior of the 90's, *the Chris Mullin of* /color/, except that Lopez's jump shot was never as feathery and he had no way of knowing that the tribe he was joining was about to be leveled by storm.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714250][Shelby Foote]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/16/arts/whose-thomas-jefferson-is-he-anyway.html][1997/02/16/0909196]]) I gradually began to conjure up the image of Joseph Ellis as *the Shelby Foote of* /the film/, recalling that sales of Mr. Foote's books had gone up exponentially after his bravura performance in the landmark Burns film on the Civil War.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201034][Lana Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/16/style/men-in-tight-sweaters-shrink-wrap-for-the-90-s.html][1997/02/16/0909383]]) This is *the Lana Turner of* /the 1990's/?
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238948][Typhoid Mary]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/16/sports/parcells-is-the-bully-that-new-york-needs.html][1997/02/16/0909447]]) And unlike Riley, he isn't trying to divert us with Hamptons hair and Soho suits while he babbles pop sports psych (ironically, Riley may have been *the Typhoid Mary of* /the Knicks' ''Disease of Me''/) that distances all messages.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273076][Wynton Marsalis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/16/sports/long-wait-in-a-windy-blind-before-the-goose-is-cooked.html][1997/02/16/0909448]]) Cornicelli, who is a masterful caller, honked like *the Wynton Marsalis of* /goose hunting/.
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463673][Regis Philbin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/17/business/political-books-become-less-sober-more-pop-oriented.html][1997/02/17/0909645]]) Some of this, of course, stems from the fact that 1996 was *the Regis Philbin of* /recent campaigns/: politics was omnipresent but so bland as to pass unnoticed.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887520][Harold Stassen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/18/sports/in-the-driver-s-seat-without-driver-s-education.html][1997/02/18/0909767]]) He's *the Harold Stassen of* /Daytona/.
26. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3202264][Yasir Arafat]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/18/opinion/israel-s-red-line-map.html][1997/02/18/0909778]]) After a treaty, with whom will Israel be dealing to enforce safeguards against terrorism -- *the Yasir Arafat of* the White House lawn or the Arafat of last September, who let his soldiers use automatic rifles against Israeli troops to make a psychological point?+
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/arts/mergings-of-history-myth-and-dream.html][1997/02/23/0910736]]) Bihzad was one: the Raphael, the Rembrandt, *the Picasso of* /Persia in his day/, the artist whose name was synonymous with art itself.
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37693][Paul Gauguin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/nyregion/long-island-journal-704377.html][1997/02/23/0910763]]) Now she is *the Gauguin of* /Great Neck/.
29. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/style/brioche-and-buzz-at-power-lit-101.html][1997/02/23/0910902]]) ''He's *the Oprah Winfrey of* literature,'' submitted David Brown, the Hollywood film producer, who is married to Helen Gurley Brown.+
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/23/style/brioche-and-buzz-at-power-lit-101.html][1997/02/23/0910902]]) He was apparently forgetting that Ms. Winfrey is already *the Oprah Winfrey of* /literature/.
31. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1175150][David Leavitt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/25/books/writer-on-the-rebound.html][1997/02/25/0911274]]) Settled in a stable relationship, unlike *the David Leavitt of* ''The Term Paper Artist,'' Mr. Leavitt has also been removed in another sense.+
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/03/nyregion/decades-later-town-considers-housing-plan-for-the-poor.html][1997/03/03/0913050]]) Ms. Haley said she found herself contemplating the contrast between such derisive comments with the more common praise for her mother, whom experts called *the Rosa Parks of* /the affordable housing movement/.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720558][Joe Namath]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/nyregion/a-new-bid-for-bid-whist.html][1997/03/09/0914501]]) ''It's not just winning for us,'' said Mr. Sherwood, who has begun to fancy himself *the Joe Namath of* /bid whist/.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/19/us/counting-the-missiles-dreaming-of-disarmament.html][1997/03/19/0916691]]) Considered *the Rosa Parks of* /Cheyenne's anti-bomb movement/, Mrs. Laybourn was the lone voice of protest over the arrival of Atlas missiles at Warren's nuclear command in 1958.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/23/books/the-master-of-monticello.html][1997/03/23/0917392]]) The story of ''Dashing Sally,'' as Mr. Ellis writes, is ''the longest-running mini-series in American history'' -- making Jefferson *the Bill Clinton of* /his time/.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463975][Cornelius Ryan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/23/nyregion/the-human-dimensions-of-america-s-bloodiest-war.html][1997/03/23/0917504]]) He might be called *the Cornelius Ryan of* /the Civil War/, producing the same sort of history-as-drama Ryan created with World War II books like ''The Longest Day'' and ''A Bridge Too Far.''
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434][Ernest Hemingway]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/27/garden/16-countries-and-still-speaking.html][1997/03/27/0918474]]) They were led by Ms. O'Neill, *the Ernest Hemingway of* /bargain hunters/, whose militarily precise organizational abilities cause her husband to describe her as ''a force of nature.''
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/sports/thomas-is-kentucky-except-on-the-court.html][1997/03/29/0918913]]) And when he's referred to as *the Michelangelo of* /coaching/, I really think that's a very appropriate term.''
39. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93157][Eugene O'Neill]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/04/theater/a-lug-against-the-universe-in-up-to-the-minute-o-neill.html][1997/04/04/0920288]]) The choice of the play makes perfect sense and reminds one that the objectives of the troupe, founded in 1974 and led by Elizabeth LeCompte, are indeed close to those of *the O'Neill of* the 1920's.+
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555370][Ed McMahon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/arts/a-fellowship-of-angels-and-america.html][1997/04/06/0920768]]) Hank, *the Ed McMahon of* /the fictional talk show at the center of HBO's popular ''Larry Sanders Show,''/ suddenly became a devout Jew in one episode and angered his colleagues by insisting on wearing a yarmulke.
41. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7902373][Utah Jazz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/09/sports/malone-is-making-a-case-for-mvp.html][1997/04/09/0921683]]) A 13-game winning streak has virtually assured *the Utah Jazz of* finishing with the best record in the Western Conference.+
42. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/11/nyregion/yanks-back-at-stadium-with-steinbrenner-on-deck.html][1997/04/11/0922001]]) For his first act as Principal for a Day at Public School 70 in the Bronx, Donald J. Trump -- *the Trump of* the high-rolling hotels and chandelier-encrusted casinos -- gave a speech to an auditorium full of fifth graders.+
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230023][Leslie Caron]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/nyregion/writing-novels-in-a-painterly-fashion.html][1997/04/13/0922363]]) ''I  would have a beautiful little atelier, meet *the Leslie Caron of* /my life/, sit in a cafe and meet artists.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/nyregion/l-don-t-forget-the-real-trolleys-567353.html][1997/04/13/0922555]]) This remarkable man became *the Bill Gates of* /his era/ by electrifying streetcars, and went on to invent the railroad air brake system used today, and the modern elevator.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603][Andy Warhol]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/13/style/listen-up-talk-radio-this-is-the-internet-speaking.html][1997/04/13/0922638]]) In blue slacks, polo-style shirt and white sneakers, Mr. Harris looks more like an off-duty accountant than *the Andy Warhol of* /Silicon Alley/, New York's new-media mecca.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344793][George Burns]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/15/science/long-evolution-of-darwin-of-20th-century.html][1997/04/15/0922983]]) That is not to say that Dr. Mayr cannot be charming, even pointedly humble, making practiced jokes about himself and his age, sounding like *the George Burns of* /evolutionary biology/.
47. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/19/arts/on-aspects-of-love-after-40.html][1997/04/19/0923817]]) Unresponsive, she is *the Madonna of* the song, beseeched by the man and woman dancing around her.+
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/19/opinion/tiger-s-double-bogey.html][1997/04/19/0923823]]) But the 21-year-old who is often described as *the Jackie Robinson of* /golf/ blew off Jackie Robinson -- and the Fan in Chief.
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3051017][Ernie Banks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/20/sports/once-ubiquitous-lalas-a-sure-starter-no-more.html][1997/04/20/0924364]]) On Sunday, he would like to become *the Ernie Banks of* /soccer/ with a let's-play-two approach to a doubleheader in Foxboro, Mass.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/20/sports/a-prodigy-finds-skeptics-in-the-crowd.html][1997/04/20/0924370]]) Some want to bill her as *the Tiger Woods of* /the L.P.G.A./
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721948][Nolan Ryan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/23/nyregion/inside-753289.html][1997/04/23/0924920]]) Yanks Obtain Rights to Irabu  After weeks of negotiations, New York acquired the rights to pitcher Hideki Irabu, who has been called *the Nolan Ryan of* /Japan/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93157][Eugene O'Neill]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/27/nyregion/on-the-towns-779040.html][1997/04/27/0925650]]) Theater columnists called him ''*the O'Neill of* /the 30's/.''
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001][Mahatma Gandhi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/30/arts/30-years-after-his-death-che-guevara-has-new-charisma.html][1997/04/30/0926511]]) He's become *the Gandhi of* /Cuba/..''
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/02/sports/a-ripple-of-recognition-follows-robinson.html][1997/05/02/0926963]]) As Doby tells it, Veeck was more than just *the P. T. Barnum of* /baseball/, more than just exploding scoreboards and novelty acts, despite the indelible image of the midget Eddie Gaedel at bat.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350844][Christian Lacroix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/06/style/for-the-bride-who-wants-a-simple-sensuous-look.html][1997/05/06/0927940]]) ''It's the Jil Sander of bridal versus *the Christian Lacroix of* /bridal/.''
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69066][Jil Sander]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/06/style/for-the-bride-who-wants-a-simple-sensuous-look.html][1997/05/06/0927940]]) ''It's *the Jil Sander of* /bridal/ versus the Christian Lacroix of bridal.''
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/11/sports/mother-s-day-amnesty-for-the-bad-boys.html][1997/05/11/0929079]]) Naturally, he likes Howard Stern, *the Rodman of* /radio/, much more than he likes David Stern, the National Basketball Association daddy figure, who will eventually be judged by how well he controls the stars who test him; maybe those box-office Roman candles needed hugs and spankings earlier.
58. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1268][Frédéric Chopin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/17/arts/making-a-virtue-of-virtuosity.html][1997/05/17/0930353]]) But Muscle Beach is an odd place to encounter the Schubert of the late C minor Sonata and *the Chopin of* the four ballades.+
59. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7312][Franz Schubert]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/17/arts/making-a-virtue-of-virtuosity.html][1997/05/17/0930353]]) But Muscle Beach is an odd place to encounter *the Schubert of* the late C minor Sonata and the Chopin of the four ballades.+
60. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35155][Thomas Pynchon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/18/books/the-great-divide.html][1997/05/18/0930489]]) There are precedents here -- John Barth, Robert Coover, Gunter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, E. L. Doctorow and, of course, *the Thomas Pynchon of* ''Gravity's Rainbow'' and ''V.''+
61. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69087][Gorch Fock]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/18/nyregion/coast-guard-s-eagle-paint-and-polish-fresh-heading-out.html][1997/05/18/0930597]]) The Mirlea of Romania and *the Gorch Fock of* Germany were built after the war.+
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1770885][Knute Rockne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/25/magazine/john-sexton-pleads-and-pleads-and-pleads-his-case.html][1997/05/25/0932244]]) Sexton was *the Knute Rockne of* /debate/.
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268056][Mr. Chips]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/25/magazine/john-sexton-pleads-and-pleads-and-pleads-his-case.html][1997/05/25/0932244]]) He might well have spent his life as *the Mr. Chips of* /Brooklyn/, but in 1974 he applied to law school and accepted at Harvard after Laurence Tribe, an old friend from his debating days, intervened.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/25/sports/indy-500-is-facing-questions-of-survival.html][1997/05/25/0932541]]) ''Or if you could, find *the Tiger Woods of* /auto racing/: someone who could capture the public's attention,'' he said.
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209989][Hubert Humphrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/26/us/at-commencement-insights-and-asides.html][1997/05/26/0932624]]) ''I'm taking my watch off because we're on a very tight schedule and I have the reputation of being *the Hubert Humphrey of* /the Republican Party/.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/01/tv/tarzan-that-muscular-environmentalist.html][1997/06/01/0933674]]) The marathon culminates Sunday/ Early Monday at 2:30 A.M. with ''Tarzan and the Jungle Boy,'' a 1968 epic starring the sleek Mike Henry, billed as *the James Bond of* /the ape men/.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/01/nyregion/the-father-of-invention.html][1997/06/01/0933739]]) ''Edison was *the Mozart of* /invention/, at a time that was the heyday of American inventors.''
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42013][Anwar el Sadat]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/04/us/beleaguered-tobacco-foe-holds-key-to-talks.html][1997/06/04/0934646]]) And Mr. Scruggs describes Mr. Myers as ''*the Anwar Sadat of* /the public health community/.''+ (D)
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42013][Anwar el Sadat]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/04/us/beleaguered-tobacco-foe-holds-key-to-talks.html][1997/06/04/0934713]]) And Mr. Scruggs describes Mr. Myers as ''*the Anwar Sadat of* /the public health community/.''
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450619][Diana Vreeland]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/06/movies/man-wanted-must-have-excellent-penmanship.html][1997/06/06/0934955]]) The complex aural and visual style of ''The Pillow Book'' involves rectangular insets that flash back to Sei Shonagon (a kind of Windows 995) and illustrate the imperious little lists that made her sound like *the Diana Vreeland of* /10th-century tastes/.
71. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19543][Hans Sachs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/08/arts/two-proven-wagnerians-who-are-still-evolving.html][1997/06/08/0935408]]) Some listeners may have reservations about *the Hans Sachs of* the great Belgian baritone Jose van Dam.+
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6183474][Jerry Della Femina]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/08/nyregion/long-island-journal-464562.html][1997/06/08/0935419]]) He is becoming *the Jerry Della Femina of* /the western Hamptons/.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/09/sports/gordon-wins-at-pocono-for-sixth-victory-of-the-season.html][1997/06/09/0935919]]) Jeff Gordon is considered *the Tiger Woods of* /Nascar/, if only for his success at a relatively young age (25).
74. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84232][Veronica Lake]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/13/movies/oh-heavens-what-a-hero.html][1997/06/13/0936615]]) Even the Disney ingenue, Megara (Susan Egan), is hipper this time, a sardonic burgundy-haired vamp who sounds like *the Veronica Lake of* ''Sullivan's Travels'' when she calls Hercules a big lug.+
75. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/13/movies/from-the-company-of-bees-to-that-of-humans.html][1997/06/13/0936634]]) Almost wordlessly, in a way that also suggests Clint Eastwood or even *the John Wayne of* ''The Searchers,'' he conveys stubborn bitterness along with the inner strength of a man described by another of the film's characters as ''an old-fashioned, ties-that-bind kind of guy.''+
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/14/us/a-standard-for-longevity.html][1997/06/14/0936888]])          Senate colleagues of Strom Thurmond, 94 years old, present him with baseball bat inscribed 'To *the Cal Ripken of* /the Senate/, 41 years, 10 months and still going strong'; photo (S)
77. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21511391][Joseph Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/15/nyregion/dreams-for-the-edison-of-today.html][1997/06/15/0937149]]) Dreams for *the Edison of* Today+
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529276][Studs Terkel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/17/books/listener-talker-now-literary-lion-it-s-official.html][1997/06/17/0937769]]) Mayhew was *the Studs Terkel of* /the 19th century/.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/18/arts/thalassa-cruso-88-plant-lover-who-shared-her-passion-on-tv.html][1997/06/18/0937888]]) Thalassa Cruso, an authority on plants who was known as ''*the Julia Child of* /horticulture/'' for her common-sense if often loopy gardening programs on television in the 1960's, died on June 11 at Newton and Wellesley Alzheimer Center in Wellesley, Mass.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76918][Faust]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/20/arts/for-children.html][1997/06/20/0938276]]) (You could call him *the Faust of* /Sleepy Hollow/.)
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100948][Rachel Carson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/26/world/jacques-cousteau-oceans-impresario-dies.html][1997/06/26/0939628]]) He was *the Rachel Carson of* /the oceans/.''
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11637][Judy Garland]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/26/arts/rita-dimitri-a-club-singer-and-actress-is-dead-at-67.html][1997/06/26/0939657]]) She won the contest and said that soon thereafter she was cast in her first musical, began playing leading roles in Athens theaters and eventually became known as *the Judy Garland of* /Greece/.
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1399][Niccolò Machiavelli]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/27/theater/nature-too-feels-pity-for-a-queen.html][1997/06/27/0939762]]) Mr. Sommer's Wolsey (a part, like Katherine, favored by legendary actors) is great fun as *the Machiavel of* /the first acts/ (he has that perfect, ironed-on politician's smile), but less convincing in his big ''farewell to all my greatness'' speech.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950][James Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/29/sports/us-faces-acid-test-in-el-salvador.html][1997/06/29/0940509]]) Wynalda has been *the James Brown of* /soccer/; just when he seems about to collapse and someone tosses a figurative cape over him, he bounds back to life.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/30/movies/a-specialist-in-esthetics-of-offbeat-violence.html][1997/06/30/0940634]]) Woo ''*the Mozart of* /mayhem/.''
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/04/us/savoring-a-sweet-taste-of-southern-summers.html][1997/07/04/0941534]]) ''I am *the Susan Lucci of* /iced tea contests/.''
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/06/nyregion/a-winning-mix-of-warmth-and-whimsy.html][1997/07/06/0941827]]) Other superb starters are *the Napoleon of* layered eggplant caviar, olive tapenade and paper-thin focaccia toasts; the no-filler crab cake mated with a clump of mesclun salad and a drizzle of blueberry ketchup, the cured salmon served on a warm potato roesti and the oysters on the half shell topped with a fresh tomato-radish vinaigrette.+
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156395][Peter Lynch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/06/business/a-successful-bond-navigator-sees-calm-waters.html][1997/07/06/0941962]]) Gross, who oversees $92 billion of fixed-income assets, or 84 percent of Pimco's $110 billion total, has been called ''*the Peter Lynch of* /bonds/'' by Newsweek magazine, in reference to the former manager of the Fidelity Magellan fund (though Mr.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182882][John James Audubon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/07/books/an-angler-lands-the-best-of-friends.html][1997/07/07/0942258]]) Last year James Prosek, while still an undergraduate at Yale, published a dazzlingly brilliant collection of watercolor paintings, ''Trout: An Illustrated History,'' which set him on a course to becoming *the Audubon of* /fish/.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204586][Parker Posey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/13/arts/playing-the-woman-beside-the-man-who-took-san-juan-hill.html][1997/07/13/0943200]]) ''I'm trying to be *the Parker Posey of* /this year/.''
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3106664][T. Berry Brazelton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/14/us/his-credo-be-afraid-be-very-afraid.html][1997/07/14/0943737]]) Buoyed by the book's success, he is exploring possible ''Gift of Fear'' workshops for the public, and he is talking about a ''Gift of Fear'' sequel for parents, a book that, if written, threatens to make him *the T. Berry Brazelton of* /the anxious set/.
92. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511][Richard Wagner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/17/arts/tristan-and-its-unruly-kin.html][1997/07/17/0944241]]) The subject was Wagner, specifically *the Wagner of* ''Tristan und Isolde.''+
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1242948][Alice McDermott]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/20/books/backyard-betrayal.html][1997/07/20/0944771]]) She is not overtly elegiac -- Marsha's childhood is not any place you would want to revisit -- but the intensely evocative language through which her early 70's neighborhood is recaptured means that Berne might be categorized with suburban romanticists like *the Alice McDermott of* ''That Night'' or the Jeffrey Eugenides of ''The Virgin Suicides'' or even the Steven Millhauser of ''Edwin Mullhouse.''+
94. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357108][Jeffrey Eugenides]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/20/books/backyard-betrayal.html][1997/07/20/0944771]]) She is not overtly elegiac -- Marsha's childhood is not any place you would want to revisit -- but the intensely evocative language through which her early 70's neighborhood is recaptured means that Berne might be categorized with suburban romanticists like the Alice McDermott of ''That Night'' or *the Jeffrey Eugenides of* ''The Virgin Suicides'' or even the Steven Millhauser of ''Edwin Mullhouse.''+
95. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640807][Steven Millhauser]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/20/books/backyard-betrayal.html][1997/07/20/0944771]]) She is not overtly elegiac -- Marsha's childhood is not any place you would want to revisit -- but the intensely evocative language through which her early 70's neighborhood is recaptured means that Berne might be categorized with suburban romanticists like the Alice McDermott of ''That Night'' or the Jeffrey Eugenides of ''The Virgin Suicides'' or even *the Steven Millhauser of* ''Edwin Mullhouse.''+
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/20/theater/a-music-mecca-loved-but-reluctantly.html][1997/07/20/0944839]]) Seating 3,800 patrons, the Met is *the King Kong of* /opera houses/.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/23/garden/only-in-the-kitchen-are-there-no-letdowns.html][1997/07/23/0945601]]) ''Sheila is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /food/,'' says Clark Wolf, a food and restaurant consultant in New York whose recipe for bruschetta is in ''The New Basics Cookbook'' (Workman, 1989).
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155626][John Singer Sargent]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/25/arts/sought-or-imposed-limits-can-take-flight.html][1997/07/25/0945992]]) ''When I was a student in 1961, the rap on me was that I could be *the John Singer Sargent of* /my generation/, which was meant in a derogatory way -- that I was flashy -- and which I fought against by imposing limits on myself as a portraitist.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1337643][Howard Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/29/us/democratic-senator-in-campaign-finance-hearings-stays-above-the-fray.html][1997/07/29/0947001]]) In a phone interview, he called Mr. Lieberman, ''the antidote to the cynicism of our time,'' and, in terms equally flattering in certain circles, ''*the Howard Baker of* /the Democratic side/.''
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133054][Sylvia Plath]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/01/theater/friends-with-entangling-alliances.html][1997/08/01/0947558]]) All that is really clear is that Gemma, the silent one, is married to Rob (David Jacob Ryder), who is having an affair with Lorna (Sally Willig), whose mother, recalled as ''*the Sylvia Plath of* /South Hempstead/,'' committed suicide.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128297][Maria Callas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/nyregion/in-a-master-class-a-diva-82-teaches-the-essence-of-feeling.html][1997/08/03/0948012]]) She was *the Maria Callas of* /the Middle West/.
102. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/05/arts/when-opera-can-seem-like-a-contest-between-composer-and-director.html][1997/08/05/0948583]]) This is not *the Mozart of* ''The Magic Flute'' (played 24 hours later at the Felsenreitschule).+
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220210][George Steinbrenner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/06/opinion/outlaw-cowboys.html][1997/08/06/0948730]]) Jerry Jones, *the George Steinbrenner of* /pro football owners/, thought he had brought law and order to his Dallas Cowboys.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107190][Peter Pan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/08/movies/sure-he-s-paranoid-and-with-good-reason.html][1997/08/08/0949060]]) Mr. Gibson, delivering one of the hearty, dynamic star turns that have made him *the Peter Pan of* /the blockbuster set/, makes Jerry much more boyishly likable than he deserves to be.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/08/sports/kipketer-best-in-world-in-evasiveness-and-800.html][1997/08/08/0949130]]) Kipketer is as guarded as he is fast; some reporters have labeled him *the Greta Garbo of* /track and field/.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/09/arts/a-comeback-for-the-viola-no-joking.html][1997/08/09/0949254]]) This instrument, often relegated to playing secondary inner voices, is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /string instruments/, getting no respect, no respect at all.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/10/business/in-fair-august-work-is-but-a-midsummer-daydream.html][1997/08/10/0949412]]) He describes Arafat's transformation from a courageous guerrilla leader -- who told President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt as late as 1988 that he would sooner ''cut off his right hand'' than accept Israel's right to exist -- to, in Heikal's view, a desperately pathetic politician, ''*the Gorbachev of* /Palestine/.''
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7963465][Wally Pipp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/10/nyregion/who-is-he.html][1997/08/10/0949711]]) Mr. Rabbit may have been known as Lucky, but he quickly became a footnote in history -- *the Wally Pipp of* /cartoons/.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207405][Zsa Zsa Gabor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/10/nyregion/who-is-he.html][1997/08/10/0949711]]) ''He is sort of *the Zsa Zsa Gabor of* /animation/,'' said Chuck Jones, a distinguished animator who worked with Mr.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3297161][Mariano Duncan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/12/sports/martinez-clouts-38th-to-support-pettitte.html][1997/08/12/0950144]]) Curtis, who socked five hits, now has seven in a row and might keep Tim Raines on the bench forever And Luis Sojo, *the Mariano Duncan of* /this year/, had three hits and scored twice.
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/15/nyregion/indian-and-pakistani-immigrants-honor-2-homelands.html][1997/08/15/0950661]]) This coming Sunday, the India Day Parade, billed as ''unprecedented, spectacular, colossal,'' will sail down lower Madison Avenue, with *the John Wayne of* /Indian movie stars/, Amitabh Bachchan, in the lead as grand marshal.
112. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3097952][Walter Winchell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/weekinreview/the-dangers-of-dishing-dirt-in-cyberspace.html][1997/08/17/0951215]]) Profile of Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report, daily digest of gossip on Internet; photo; Drudge, who worked at CBS gift shop in Los Angeles, started by weeding through wastebaskets in search of secret tidbits on ratings and programs, and eventually turned himself into *the Walter Winchell of* the Web (S)+
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3097952][Walter Winchell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/weekinreview/the-dangers-of-dishing-dirt-in-cyberspace.html][1997/08/17/0951215]]) Where else but in Nathanael West's old neighborhood, where self-invention was invented, could a geeky guy who once managed the CBS gift shop here transform himself into the country's reigning mischief-maker and proprietor of a one-man Internet gossip column that has made him *the Walter Winchell of* /the World Wide Web/?
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q410][Carl Sagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/21/business/the-atmosphere-is-the-atmosphere-in-the-pub-used-in-a-weather-channel-campaign.html][1997/08/21/0951923]]) The emotional pitch is intended to ''tap into the awe, mystery and wonder of weather'' felt by many Americans, said Amy Pollard, brand marketing director at the Weather Channel, and persuade them to consider the network ''*the Carl Sagan of* /weather/, the Jacques Cousteau of weather.''
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83233][Jacques Cousteau]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/21/business/the-atmosphere-is-the-atmosphere-in-the-pub-used-in-a-weather-channel-campaign.html][1997/08/21/0951923]]) The emotional pitch is intended to ''tap into the awe, mystery and wonder of weather'' felt by many Americans, said Amy Pollard, brand marketing director at the Weather Channel, and persuade them to consider the network ''the Carl Sagan of weather, *the Jacques Cousteau of* /weather/.''
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/21/sports/the-book-the-endorsements-the-fans-packers-favre-just-wants-to-fish.html][1997/08/21/0951977]]) If Favre was popular before Green Bay beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI, he is now *the Elvis of* /the National Football League/.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/30/opinion/sampras-vs-history.html][1997/08/30/0953822]]) For one thing, today's professionals play about four times as many matches per year than did Bill Tilden, widely regarded as *the Babe Ruth of* /tennis/.
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125643][Dave Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/31/sports/nfc-scouting-reports.html][1997/08/31/0954083]]) STRENGTHS: Quarterback Trent Dilfer, *the Dave Brown of* /the N.F.C./
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/arts/architecture.html][1997/09/07/0955547]]) ''LIGHT UP THE SKY: THE SIGNS OF TIMES SQUARE'' The Artkraft Strauss Company, *the Leonardo of* /Times Square/, will celebrate its centennial with a show of neon signs and archival photographs that provide a glimpse of the Great White Way's evolution.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3097952][Walter Winchell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/magazine/et-give-up.html][1997/09/07/0955605]]) A slight, bespectacled man, Moseley is a subculture legend who has served as *the Walter Winchell of* /U.F.O./
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/theater/from-star-struck-to-star-a-trouper-steps-up.html][1997/09/07/0955616]]) I'm not *the Dennis Rodman of* /musicals/.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190924][Michael Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/sports/athens-can-thank-atlanta-for-2004-games.html][1997/09/07/0955919]]) Like the shape of the olive wreath that crowned its first winner, Coroebus, *the Michael Johnson of* /his time/, the Olympics has now come full circle.
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721948][Nolan Ryan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/07/sports/l-a-97-ryan-991520.html][1997/09/07/0955994]]) Unfortunately for the Yankees, he's *the Nolan Ryan of* 1997 (Advil commercials).+
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145222][Tony Gwynn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/10/sports/ashburn-provided-hits-and-humor.html][1997/09/10/0956469]]) The Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner said, ''He was *the Tony Gwynn of* /his time/.''
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/12/books/books-of-the-times-life-among-randy-apes-can-be-tough-on-a-guy.html][1997/09/12/0956851]]) Will Self is *the Dennis Rodman of* /contemporary fiction/.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7523][Kublai Khan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/14/magazine/hawaii-with-julia-an-idyll.html][1997/09/14/0957263]]) When David H. Murdock, the Californian chairman and chief executive of Castle & Cook Homes and the Dole Food Company, *the Kubla Khan of* /Lanai/, took the island out of pineapples and into upmarket tourism, he built a new landscape with imported dirt, moistened by water piped down from the wet, forested uplands beyond Lanai City.
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/19/movies/film-review-the-dark-underbelly-of-a-sunny-town.html][1997/09/19/0958685]]) Danny DeVito embodies this as a gleeful Sid Hudgens (a character whom Mr. Hanson has called ''*the Thomas Edison of* /tabloid journalism/''), who is the unscrupulous editor of a publication called Hush-Hush and winds up linked to many of the other characters' nastiest transgressions.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315487][Bugsy Siegel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/21/magazine/can-the-man-who-made-sun-city-make-it-in-atlantic-city.html][1997/09/21/0959132]]) Kerzner, who is sometimes called *the Bugsy Siegel of* /the bush veld/, was accused of bribery and was roundly denounced for using apartheid to advance his business interests.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938243][Marion Barry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/22/opinion/foreign-affairs-if-i-forget-thee-o-jerusalem.html][1997/09/22/0959661]]) You have Mr. Olmert, *the Marion Barry of* /Jerusalem/, who tries to propel his political career by appealing to the worst, most ethnocentric instincts in the city.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/26/movies/film-review-where-men-are-manly-and-so-are-bears.html][1997/09/26/0960422]]) Mr. Hopkins, whose creative collaboration with Bart goes back to ''Legends of the Fall,'' has called him ''*the John Wayne of* /bears/.''
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93957][Gary Cooper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/nyregion/neighborhood-report-greenwich-village-committed-civil-servant-that-man-makes-his.html][1997/09/28/0961068]]) C. is *the Gary Cooper of* /Washington Square Park/,'' said Mr. Stern, apparently referring to the actor's role in ''High Noon.''
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4910116][Bill McGowan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/02/business/the-battle-for-mci-the-entrepreneur-a-long-distance-visionary.html][1997/10/02/0962017]]) ''Bernie Ebbers is *the Bill McGowan of* /today/,'' said Howard Anderson, managing director of the Yankee Group, a research firm in Boston.
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/03/movies/movie-guide.html][1997/10/03/0962117]]) Photographed amid spectacular scenery, Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Baldwin trade amusingly wry Mametisms while awaiting regular appearances by Bart, whom Mr. Hopkins has fairly called ''*the John Wayne of* /bears/.''
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103846][Groucho Marx]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/04/arts/a-big-pain-at-espn-shifts-focus-at-msnbc.html][1997/10/04/0962341]]) Keith Olbermann was *the Groucho Marx of* /sportscasting/.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312348][Thurgood Marshall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/05/magazine/the-new-look-of-liberalism-on-the-court.html][1997/10/05/0962580]]) In June 1993, when President Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, he called her *the Thurgood Marshall of* /the women's rights movement/, self-consciously comparing her work as an advocate to that of the last Justice to be appointed by a Democratic President, 26 years earlier.
136. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/10/movies/movie-guide.html][1997/10/10/0963870]]) Photographed amid spectacular scenery, Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Baldwin trade amusingly wry Mametisms while awaiting regular appearances by Bart, whom Mr. Hopkins has fairly called ''*the John Wayne of* /bears/.''+ (D)
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/10/arts/nothing-but-net-when-life-is-a-hoop-dream.html][1997/10/10/0963909]]) He doesn't even come close to me -- I'm *the Picasso of* /the playground/.
138. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41148][Martin Scorsese]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/12/movies/film-the-innocent-approach-to-an-adult-opus.html][1997/10/12/0964272]]) Because of the nervous energy of Mr. Anderson's writing and directorial style, he is being likened to *the Martin Scorsese of* the ''Mean Streets'' era.+
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236421][Janet Reno]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/13/opinion/foreign-affairs-madeleine-bill.html][1997/10/13/0964875]]) Jacques Chirac -- that guy is *the Janet Reno of* /diplomacy/.
140. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935][Isaac Newton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/15/business/2-get-nobel-for-a-formula-at-the-heart-of-options-trading.html][1997/10/15/0965140]]) ''Bob Merton is *the Isaac Newton of* /his field/,'' Mr. Samuelson said.+ (D)
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935][Isaac Newton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/15/business/2-get-nobel-for-a-formula-at-the-heart-of-options-trading.html][1997/10/15/0965250]]) ''Bob Merton is *the Isaac Newton of* /his field/,'' Mr. Samuelson said.
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297142][Joe DiMaggio]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/16/us/rostenkowski-69-and-free-is-feeling-lighter.html][1997/10/16/0965519]]) ''He was *the Joe DiMaggio of* /legislators/,'' said his friend Thomas Lyons, the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party.
143. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/17/movies/movie-guide.html][1997/10/17/0965651]]) Photographed amid spectacular scenery, Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Baldwin trade amusingly wry Mametisms while awaiting regular appearances by Bart, whom Mr. Hopkins has fairly called ''*the John Wayne of* /bears/.''+ (D)
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/19/nyregion/westchester-q-a-john-w-reavis-jr-leveling-the-field-for-young-black-skiers.html][1997/10/19/0966116]]) When will we see *the Tiger Woods of* /skiing/ make an appearance?
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380433][Al Sharpton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/19/nyregion/in-person-the-festival-man.html][1997/10/19/0966241]]) ''He's *the Al Sharpton of* /his people, of the Asian Indian community/,'' said Officer Allen A. Sabo, of the Edison Police Department.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38222][George Lucas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/20/business/the-ultimate-obsession-what-will-people-pay-to-enter-his-world.html][1997/10/20/0966567]]) He is, in fact, quickly becoming *the George Lucas of* /a business that is capturing an increasingly mainstream following/.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5576257][Goddard Lieberson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/26/books/bookend-oxford-and-all-that-jazz.html][1997/10/26/0967785]]) He has said the compliment he most cherishes is one that called him ''*the Goddard Lieberson of* /publishing/'' -- a reference to the president of Columbia Records who in the 1950's helped pioneer the recording of Broadway musicals and spoken word, spurred John Hammond's talent scouting and supported the signing of the blacklisted Pete Seeger, among other accomplishments.
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/29/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-price-of-liberty-a-punch.html][1997/10/29/0968855]]) This has nothing and everything to do with Charles Barkley, *the Einstein of* /the Houston Rockets/, who was not enraptured with a man at a bar in Orlando, Fla., the other night and, by witnesses' account, picked him up and threw him like a football through a plate-glass window.
149. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/03/business/could-nbc-live-without-er-bidding-war-looms-for-tv-s-hottest-drama-series.html][1997/11/03/0970198]]) ''E.R.,'' *the Mona Lisa of* contemporary television, is about to be put up for auction -- and every network in America wants this work of prime-time art hanging on its wall.+
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41342][Mary Tyler Moore]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/06/theater/theater-review-life-is-hard-and-death-s-no-picnic-either.html][1997/11/06/0970877]]) Imagine *the Mary Tyler Moore of* her 1970's show hitting the bottle and losing her job after reading too much Kafka, and you'll sort of get the idea.+
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707][Dorothy Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/07/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-005177.html][1997/11/07/0971103]]) Syd Straw has long been *the Dorothy Parker of* /the downtown club world/, her self-deprecating charm and zany antics in counterpart to one of the biggest hearts and warmest voices in New York.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/10/nyregion/o-connor-says-he-ll-work-propose-sainthood-for-dorothy-day-servant-poor.html][1997/11/10/0972068]]) In his homily yesterday, the Cardinal said he had received many letters as the centennial of Miss Day's birth drew near, one from a supporter who called her ''*the Mother Teresa of* /Mott Street/.''
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359416][George Hamilton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/12/opinion/liberties-tanned-taut-and-rested.html][1997/11/12/0972502]]) But on the other hand, he was *the George Hamilton of* /the Senate/, spending so much time bronzing on his Capitol balcony that it was dubbed ''Dole's Beach.''
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182665][Iggy Pop]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-115479.html][1997/11/14/0972790]]) Tribe 8 is a self-proclaimed lesbian punk band whose lead singer Lynn Breedlove is *the Iggy Pop of* /the 1990's/: a shocking, brilliant performer in leather pants and no shirt, the definition of transgressive freedom.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/18/arts/television-review-the-glasses-the-hair-the-angst.html][1997/11/18/0973929]]) This exceptionally funny and clever episode of the series, about an intellectual named Maya (Laura San Giacomo) who works for her philistine father (George Segal) at a fashion magazine called Blush, is shaped as an ''Annie Hall'' parody and features a character who looks, talks and acts like *the Woody Allen of* /Maya's dreams/.
156. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/21/movies/movie-guide.html][1997/11/21/0974571]]) Photographed amid spectacular scenery, Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Baldwin trade amusingly wry Mametisms while awaiting regular appearances by Bart, whom Mr. Hopkins has fairly called ''*the John Wayne of* /bears/.''+ (D)
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/23/nyregion/dining-out-the-cuisine-makes-a-royal-statement.html][1997/11/23/0975066]]) More memorable was *the Napoleon of* /vegetables/ enlivened with preserved tomatoes and mustard leaves.
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23844][George Clooney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/23/style/style-over-substance-junk-today-on-runways-tomorrow.html][1997/11/23/0975244]]) Call her *the George Clooney of* /26th Street/, but the Nikon-shy Sunday morning merchant may have a right to her hauteur.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/26/dining/food-stuff.html][1997/11/26/0975833]]) Though she has some valuable old cookbooks -- including those by Isabella Beeton and Mrs. H. W. Beecher, *the Julia Childs of* /the mid-19th century/ -- Ms. Slotnick's books are mainly 20th-century American volumes that are now out of print.
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/02/sports/on-pro-football-afc-s-super-savior-could-be-the-chiefs.html][1997/12/02/0977304]]) Since then, in almost every season, 14 of them in all, everyone has wondered, is this the year the A.F.C., *the Susan Lucci of* /football/, ends the streak?
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q968798][Paul Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/sports/baseball-notebook-new-kids-making-more-enemies-than-friends.html][1997/12/07/0978705]]) Jim Leyland is becoming *the Paul Brown of* /baseball managers/.
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/08/business/radio-s-renegade.html][1997/12/08/0978823]]) But if Mr. Dunifer's advocates see him as a free-speech crusader and *the Johnny Appleseed of* /low-power radio/, the F.C.C., the legal guardian of the common property of the airwaves, sees him as a radio ''pirate'' who is breaking the law, disrupting licensed broadcasters and posing a threat to public safety.
163. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/10/movies/film-review-pain-of-captivity-made-starkly-real.html][1997/12/10/0979227]]) A language barrier also separates them from much of the film's main action, although *the Steven Spielberg of* ''E.T.''+
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296647][Ralph Lauren]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/11/garden/tree-trimming-with-christopher-radko-the-czar-of-christmas-present.html][1997/12/11/0979456]]) ''I'm *the Ralph Lauren of* /Christmas/.''
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/12/nyregion/nyc-paying-heed-to-a-scourge-of-the-young.html][1997/12/12/0979823]]) IT is probably being way too glib to describe hepatitis B as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /major infectious diseases/.
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/travel/dostoyevsky-s-city-on-the-neva.html][1997/12/14/0980053]]) Viscount Melchoir de Vogue, a Frenchman, agreed, and regarded Dostoyevsky as its warden: ''He is *the Shakespeare of* /the lunatic asylum/.''
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319079][Bob Dole]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/magazine/l-outside-in-526304.html][1997/12/14/0980084]]) Shimon Peres had already failed three times in national elections and, given his age and lifetime in politics, was perceived as *the Bob Dole of* /Israeli politics/.
168. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/16/sports/nba-last-night-the-sixers-fall-as-iverson-sits.html][1997/12/16/0980972]]) He was convicted on three counts and sentenced to five years in prison, but his conviction was later reversed by *the Virginia Court of* Appeals.+
169. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230935][Annie Oakley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/24/movies/film-review-smarter-than-she-is-hah.html][1997/12/24/0982708]]) Running nearly as long as ''Pulp Fiction'' even though its ambitions are more familiar and small, ''Jackie Brown'' has the makings of another, chattier ''Get Shorty'' with an added homage to Pam Grier, *the Annie Oakley of* /1970's blaxploitation/.
170. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/26/sports/tennis-breakfast-champions-4.96-hon-pete-sampras-wild-all-right-like-maple-syrup.html][1997/12/26/0983138]]) No one wants his autograph, and no one asks him if he thinks of himself as *the Michael Jordan of* /tennis/, a question that makes Sampras lose his appetite wherever and whenever it is asked.
171. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24237601][Haze]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/books/no-there-there.html][1997/12/28/0983483]]) Rescuing Old Yiddish Songs From *the Haze of* Memories+
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/nyregion/at-50-levittown-contends-with-its-legacy-of-bias.html][1997/12/28/0983749]]) Called *the Henry Ford of* /housing/, he spurned unions to organize an army of 15,000 workers into dozens of specialized crews, including one to apply red paint and another, white.
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529276][Studs Terkel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/31/world/danilo-dolci-vivid-voice-of-sicily-s-poor-dies-at-73.html][1997/12/31/0984216]]) A prolific writer of prose and poetry, he has also been called by literary critics *the Studs Terkel of* /Sicily/,  although Mr. Dolci was the first of the two to chronicle the lives of workers.

** 1998
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9916][Dwight D. Eisenhower]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/01/opinion/the-year-of-living-smugly.html][1998/01/01/0984416]]) He reacted angrily to charges that he had become a caretaker chief executive, coasting toward retirement on a surging economy, *the Dwight Eisenhower of* /the baby boomers/.
2. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16225915][Young]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/01/garden/wharton-s-passion-written-in-the-snow.html][1998/01/01/0984438]]) Decidedly Un-Communist Goals For *the Young of* Central Europe+
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230935][Annie Oakley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/02/movies/movie-guide.html][1998/01/02/0984556]]) Ms. Grier, *the Annie Oakley of* /1970's blaxploitation films/, makes a game comeback even if she struggles with the story's ensemble loafing.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/03/sports/helen-wills-moody-dominant-champion-who-won-8-wimbledon-titles-dies-at-92.html][1998/01/03/0984733]]) Reclusive by nature and dubbed *the Garbo of* /the tennis tour/ by Alice Marble, one of the many opponents who felt ignored by her, Wills nonetheless lived a most public and, at times, storybook existence.
5. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4653][Sherlock Holmes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/05/theater/this-week.html][1998/01/05/0985423]]) This is *the Holmes of* the London of the 1880's, investigating the murder of a servant girl on the Waterloo Bridge.+
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/05/theater/this-week.html][1998/01/05/0985423]]) Sherlock Holmes turns 144 tomorrow, but he and *the Napoleon of* /crime/ are still at it.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4291304][Ruth Messinger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/06/nyregion/ferraro-enters-battle-to-take-d-amato-seat.html][1998/01/06/0985708]]) ''She's *the Ruth Messinger of* /1998/,'' Mr. Mahoney said, referring to the Democrat who lost to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani this year.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/07/books/arts-abroad-living-with-a-shortage-of-everything-but-desire.html][1998/01/07/0985825]]) Alejandro Armengol, a critic for El Nuevo Herald, a Miami newspaper, dismissed Ms. Valdes last year as ''*the Madonna of* /Cuban literature/, with an equal capacity to transform self-assurance and the grotesque into spectacle, to show vulgarity and eroticism stripped of any mystery.''
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6882][James Joyce]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/09/books/books-of-the-times-a-sad-life-through-thick-glasses-wittily.html][1998/01/09/0986280]]) There are shades of *the James Joyce of* ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' in this unnamed person, whose own tragedies are told almost in passing, in his subordinate clauses.+
10. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/11/nyregion/dining-out-experienced-hand-in-a-familiar-setting.html][1998/01/11/0986967]]) We loved them all: the moist cranberry brioche pudding, the warm apple tart crowned with cinnamon ice cream, the homemade sorbets, *the Napoleon of* exotic fruits and the creme brulee sampler.+
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7411423][Samuel French]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/11/nyregion/theater-review-passing-the-clues-along-with-the-salt.html][1998/01/11/0987037]]) Referring to the New York rights and royalties agency, he added, ''I'm *the Samuel French of* /interactive theater/.''
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1889422][Felix Unger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/12/nyregion/metropolitan-diary-032824.html][1998/01/12/0987178]]) I must have appeared shocked by his fastidiousness because he looked at me and said, ''I know, I'm *the Felix Unger of* /the Sanitation Department/.''
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/13/nyregion/inside-053120.html][1998/01/13/0987374]]) Reducing *the Sting of* Time  New actuarial studies and findings that life spans are easier to manipulate than biologists had imagined are giving those who study aging cause to not talk of it as inevitable and entirely immutable.+
14. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230935][Annie Oakley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/16/movies/movie-guide.html][1998/01/16/0988137]]) Ms. Grier, *the Annie Oakley of* /1970's blaxploitation films/, makes a game comeback even if she struggles with the story's ensemble loafing.+ (D)
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9960][Ronald Reagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/20/world/netanyahu-in-washington-courts-conservatives.html][1998/01/20/0989011]]) Mr. Falwell referred to Mr. Netanyahu as ''*the Ronald Reagan of* /Israel/.''
16. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9960][Ronald Reagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/20/world/netanyahu-in-us-woos-conservatives.html][1998/01/20/0989013]]) ''Benjamin Netanyahu is *the Ronald Reagan of* Israel,'' Mr. Falwell said to loud applause from several hundred people who gathered to greet Mr. Netanyahu at the request of Voices United for Israel, a coalition of conservative Jewish and Christian organizations.+
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5195372][Curt Flood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/22/nyregion/public-lives-sure-footed-in-the-slippery-world-of-rock.html][1998/01/22/0989491]]) But Jack Newfield, who has written several New York Post columns lamenting the industry's neglect of Mr. Price, called him *the Curt Flood of* /rock-and-roll/, the rebel who showed a generation of musicians how to stand up for themselves.
18. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230935][Annie Oakley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/23/movies/movie-guide.html][1998/01/23/0989634]]) Ms. Grier, *the Annie Oakley of* /1970's blaxploitation films/, makes a game comeback even if she struggles with the story's ensemble loafing.+ (D)
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6483431][Lance Ito]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/24/opinion/journal-all-monica-all-the-time.html][1998/01/24/0989958]]) Given Kenneth Starr's record as *the Lance Ito of* /prosecutors/ -- he's already spent three years-plus on Whitewater -- our new national soap opera could easily supply us with entertainment for as long as O. J. did.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/25/nyregion/life-in-the-other-four.html][1998/01/25/0990204]]) And the Bronx, no longer even entitled to a capital T in The Bronx, with its salutary high coastal elevation, is still regarded as a borough of cinders except when the Yankees triumph and it becomes for the moment *the Cinderella of* /boroughs/.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/28/sports/sports-of-the-times-hamilton-and-lopez-didn-t-quit.html][1998/01/28/0991077]]) Lopez came to St. John's as the great Dominican hope from Rice High, maybe *the Magic Johnson of* /Manhattan/, and Hamilton came from Sewanhaka High in Nassau County, the 6-foot-11-inch sidekick for a potential romp to the Final Four.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216288][Garth Brooks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/29/books/making-books-now-grisham-by-e-mail.html][1998/01/29/0991260]]) But Grisham is *the Garth Brooks of* /popular literature/.
23. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230935][Annie Oakley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/30/movies/movie-guide.html][1998/01/30/0991472]]) Ms. Grier, *the Annie Oakley of* /1970's blaxploitation films/, makes a game comeback even if she struggles with the story's ensemble loafing.+ (D)
24. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/01/opinion/don-t-ask-don-t-tell.html][1998/02/01/0991893]]) A virtue of Greg Mitchell's book is that it puts *the Nixon of* 1950 in realistic perspective.+
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/01/nyregion/dining-out-a-warm-oasis-with-well-turned-food.html][1998/02/01/0991925]]) But skip the small, nothing-special oysters in Creole butter and *the Napoleon of* /portobello mushrooms/, grilled vegetables and goat cheese made too sour by an overdose of balsamic vinegar.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7963465][Wally Pipp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/02/arts/bob-russell-entertainer-is-dead-at-90.html][1998/02/02/0992419]]) But then, by some reckonings, Mr. Russell was *the Wally Pipp of* /show business/.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335][George Orwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/04/arts/on-the-trail-of-missing-antecedents-and-meaning.html][1998/02/04/0992795]]) She has been called *the Orwell of* /copy editors/, the Kasparov of syntax.
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28614][Garry Kasparov]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/04/arts/on-the-trail-of-missing-antecedents-and-meaning.html][1998/02/04/0992795]]) She has been called the Orwell of copy editors, *the Kasparov of* /syntax/.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720][Genghis Khan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/05/business/legends-of-ore-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-venerable-name-in-south-african-mining.html][1998/02/05/0993081]]) His name has a powerful resonance: Mzilikazi, the most fearsome general of the Zulu King Shaka, *the Genghis Khan of* /Africa/, who rebelled and fled, cutting a swath of destruction across southern Africa in the 1820's and 1830's.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170344][Anselm Kiefer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/06/arts/art-in-review-447790.html][1998/02/06/0993369]])  William Kentridge, one of the standouts at Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, last summer, may be *the Anselm Kiefer of* /South Africa/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/08/nyregion/about-long-island-all-natural-all-the-time-except-for.html][1998/02/08/0993756]]) Perhaps *the Martha Stewart of* /B-6 and goldenseal root/.
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151593][Olivier Messiaen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/12/arts/critic-s-choice-classical-cd-s-birdsong-at-dawn-and-a-heroine-on-the-edge.html][1998/02/12/0994762]]) Of the two solo pianists heard here, Pierre-Laurent Aimard in ''Reveil'' gives a performance of great virtuosity and detailed musical character, whereas Joela Jones in ''Sept Haikai'' is more vehement and more subjective, sometimes making the birds sound like Scriabin -- or like *the Messiaen of* younger days.+
33. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/15/nyregion/council-for-arts-makes-awards.html][1998/02/15/0995492]]) Ms. Haviland, a sculptor, will use her award for ''Misericordia Cabinet,'' a large work based on pre-Renaissance paintings of *the Madonna of* Mercy, who shelters small votive figures under her expansive cloak.+
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30755][Auguste Rodin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/15/nyregion/art-review-putting-together-pieces-of-a-career-cut-short.html][1998/02/15/0995540]]) Mr. Colavita certainly surmounted that bias (although he could also indulge in crafts) to the degree that his teaching colleague, the painter Mel Leipzig, could with some aptness refer to him in an interview in The Trenton Times last month as ''*the Rodin of* /New Jersey/.''
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44616][Wyatt Earp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/15/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-ballad-of-men-searching-for-gold.html][1998/02/15/0995712]]) In second place, the irrepressible Canadian and skating to his own exotic tune, Elvis Stojko, perhaps *the Wyatt Earp of* /the crowd/.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/16/nyregion/man-who-set-off-firecrackers-is-called-hero.html][1998/02/16/0995903]]) Some people have gone so far as to declare him *the Rosa Parks of* /Chinatown/.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347528][Liberace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/17/style/john-bartlett-on-the-fringe-no-more.html][1998/02/17/0996011]]) That distinction goes back at least 20 years to Don Robbie, who besides playing a pivotal role in Pierre Cardin's business in the United States, was something of *the Liberace of* /the fashion industry/, keeping a pink bed at the center of his showroom.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/17/business/market-place-no-sales-but-watch-the-stock-soar.html][1998/02/17/0996027]]) Mr. Peizer developed his high profile in his 20's, when he became a salesman at the Beverly Hills office of Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he sat next to the man he describes as *the Babe Ruth of* /the bond business/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39792][Jack Nicholson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/22/arts/classical-music-making-maestros-for-the-world.html][1998/02/22/0997094]]) Yet even some of his countrymen refer to him, with amused reverence, as *the Jack Nicholson of* /Scandinavia/.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82222][Little Richard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/22/nyregion/neighborhood-report-flatiron-buzz-a-big-night-for-rap-but-not-all-stars-shone.html][1998/02/22/0997273]]) ''I've been dissed, we've been dissed,'' said Mr. Herc, who calls himself ''*the Little Richard of* /the hip-hop business/.''
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553321][Vince Lombardi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/22/sports/xviii-winter-games-ice-hockey-enterprising-russian-team-hasn-t-forgotten-world.html][1998/02/22/0997356]]) He is Viktor Tikhonov, *the Vince Lombardi of* /hockey in the former Soviet Union/.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457840][Will Rogers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/25/business/shake-up-health-giant-new-chief-true-believer-hopes-salvage-reputation.html][1998/02/25/0997888]]) Oxford has ''brought in *the Will Rogers of* /family physicians/,'' said Mr. Cain, who said Dr. Payson had never met a doctor he did not like.
43. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/01/style/style-over-substance-a-decade-later-star-status-for-the-80-s.html][1998/03/01/0998972]]) But a cover story hyping it in the March issue of Vanity Fair -- with its exclusive pictures of her daughter, Lourdes, and its revelation that Madonna's father's favorite female singer is not his daughter but Celine Dion -- leaves readers cold compared with *the Madonna of* old.+
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209518][Wayne Gretzky]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/02/sports/hockey-hockey-s-improvising-gold-glove-hasek-has-redefined-way-play-goalie-but.html][1998/03/02/0999298]]) ''I call him *the Wayne Gretzky of* /his position/,'' Muckler said.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/04/us/taiwanese-group-prepares-to-meet-god-in-texas.html][1998/03/04/0999734]]) The group spent a few weeks last summer in British Columbia searching for a man whom Mr. Chen describes as the ''Jesus of the West'' (the boy Chi-Jen Lo is *the Jesus of* /the East/).
46. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230935][Annie Oakley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/06/movies/a-guide-to-films-with-nominations.html][1998/03/06/0999998]]) Ms. Grier, *the Annie Oakley of* /1970's blaxploitation films/, makes a game comeback even if she struggles with the story's ensemble loafing.+ (D)
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888675][Bobby Short]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/08/magazine/the-road-crew.html][1998/03/08/1000310]]) ''; Danny Showers, *the Bobby Short of* /the West/, lounge singer at the Westin Tabor Center in Denver ''You learn to read the business week like a good book.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40662][John the Baptist]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/08/magazine/the-new-business-class.html][1998/03/08/1000313]]) Even Marshall McLuhan, *the John the Baptist of* /the wired universe/, remarked, ''You get moving very quickly and you end up in the wrong place.''
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1254][Kofi Annan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/08/style/the-night-for-the-american-century-a-party-just-as-grandiose.html][1998/03/08/1000595]]) It was a task that must have required the diplomacy of *the Kofi Annan of* /party planners/.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40096][Will Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/12/technology/game-theory-the-japanese-embrace-hip-hop-and-parappa-is-born.html][1998/03/12/1001407]]) Parappa is *the Will Smith of* /video game characters/.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9545][Tony Blair]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/13/opinion/the-comparable-tony-blair.html][1998/03/13/1001742]]) On March 1, Francesco Cossiga, a former Italian president, conferred the title of ''*the Tony Blair of* /the right/'' on Gianfranco Fini, who is now reveling in his role as a low-fat Fascist.
52. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4020209][Willie Morris]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/15/books/a-death-in-mississippi.html][1998/03/15/1002327]]) What delectable dish would a Turgenev or a Marshall Frady have served up with these characters -- or *the Willie Morris of* ''North Toward Home?''+
53. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7317][Giuseppe Verdi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/15/nyregion/music-in-recital-handbells-and-brass.html][1998/03/15/1002473]]) For Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra, *the Verdi of* choice is the Requiem, with a solo vocal quartet of Frances Ginsberg, Victoria Livengood, Carlo Scibelli and Alexander Anisimov, and the company's own chorus swelled to 300 voices by the Choral Arts Society of Ossining and the New Choral Society of Central Westchester.+
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76988][Rothschild]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/20/business/a-wildcatter-on-the-tame-side-replacing-roughnecks-with-computers.html][1998/03/20/1003456]]) To manage his operations, Khedoury Zilkha, by then known as *the Rothschild of* /the Middle East/, deployed his four sons around the world, with Selim drawing Paris, then London.
55. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/20/sports/baseball-steinbrenner-discussed-selling-a-piece-of-yankees.html][1998/03/20/1003515]]) ''He said it was *the Mona Lisa of* sports franchises and didn't want to sell it.''+
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213550][Billy Graham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/21/business/jheri-redding-is-dead-at-91-a-hair-products-entrepreneur.html][1998/03/21/1003664]]) ''He was *the Billy Graham of* /the hair care business/,'' said Sue Rafaj, a former Revlon marketing executive.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/24/world/into-africa.html][1998/03/24/1004596]]) Africa is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /continents/; the world seems to pay it scant heed and shows it less respect.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/27/movies/at-the-movies.html][1998/03/27/1005150]]) ''Han bronzes are *the Cinderella of* /the Chinese art world/,'' said Michael Goedhuis, a London dealer who is exhibiting 11 bronzes from one tomb in southwest China at the Asian Art Fair.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130873][Menachem Begin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/28/opinion/foreign-affairs-the-odds-against-history.html][1998/03/28/1005376]]) And what are the odds that Mr. Netanyahu will be *the Menachem Begin of* /his generation/, presiding over a historic Israeli-Palestinian territorial compromise that he long opposed?
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/28/opinion/foreign-affairs-the-odds-against-history.html][1998/03/28/1005376]]) What are the odds that Mr. Zhu will turn out to be *the Mikhail Gorbachev of* /China/, even though he insists that he intends to be nothing of the kind?
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/30/sports/1998-ncaa-tournament-championships-perfect-volunteers-tennessee-routs-louisiana.html][1998/03/30/1006162]]) And Holdsclaw is often referred to as *the Michael Jordan of* /women's basketball/.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/01/business/new-orange-soda-with-familiar-name.html][1998/04/01/1006469]]) ''It's *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /soft drinks/,'' said Keith Hughes, a Pepsi spokesman.
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q637200][Henry Higgins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/03/movies/at-the-movies-summer-is-early-and-chilling.html][1998/04/03/1006919]]) His company, called *the Henry Higgins of* /Hollywood Inc./, has been in business since 1964, when he decided that something he had been doing for friends  free could be the basis of a good living.
64. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42511][H. G. Wells]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/03/opinion/l-why-literature-draws-a-yawn-mystifying-the-ignorant-328995.html][1998/04/03/1007013]]) John M. Ellis, in ''Poisoning *the Wells of* Knowledge,'' (Op-Ed, March 28) seems to have kicked the stuffing out of postmodernism and its claims to originality.+
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42511][H. G. Wells]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/03/opinion/l-why-literature-draws-a-yawn-mystifying-the-ignorant-328995.html][1998/04/03/1007014]]) John M. Ellis writes as if the use of mystification to impress credulous subjects were something that occurs only in academia (''Poisoning *the Wells of* Knowledge,'' Op-Ed, March 28).+
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/05/arts/arts-artifacts-amid-the-glitter-a-bauble-with-a-secret.html][1998/04/05/1007365]]) The jewel, equipped with two lethally sharp platinum spikes, is affixed to the lapels of crisply tailored suits that Peron favored after the Rainbow Tour in the summer of 1947, when *the Cinderella of* /the pampas/ visited Europe as her country's official emissary.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165421][Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/05/arts/arts-artifacts-amid-the-glitter-a-bauble-with-a-secret.html][1998/04/05/1007365]]) ''She was dressed as millions of women would like to be dressed,'' the American journalist Fleur Cowles wrote, after a 1950 meeting with the 31-year-old Maria Eva Duarte de Peron, whose sartorial distinction and national popularity made her *the Jacqueline Kennedy of* /South America/.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535129][Sol Hurok]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/05/nyregion/fyi-316997.html][1998/04/05/1007481]]) A.  John Harms, known as *the Sol Hurok of* /Bergen County/, was an impresario who began bringing concert performers to New Jersey stages in the 1940's.
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190094][Allen Iverson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/05/sports/pro-football-notebook-attitudes-make-nfl-look-twice-before-draft.html][1998/04/05/1007695]]) Woodson is being called *the Allen Iverson of* /the N.F.L./
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1409][Caligula]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/07/science/scientist-at-work-james-d-watson-impresario-of-the-genome-looks-back-with-candor.html][1998/04/07/1007977]]) Watson, having risen to historic fame at an early age, became *the Caligula of* /biology/.''
71. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/07/opinion/editorial-observer-splendid-stubborn-adorable-moses-returns.html][1998/04/07/1008024]]) The director said he wanted someone who looked like *the Moses of* Michelangelo.+
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/10/movies/film-review-a-sly-lens-on-corporate-america.html][1998/04/10/1008616]]) ''Do not threaten to call the police or have him thrown out,'' went a memorandum issued by another company, when *the Robin Hood of* /corporate America/ went on the road to promote his book abou downsizing.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14950350][Lawrence Phillips]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/12/sports/pro-football-the-forecast-for-saturday.html][1998/04/12/1009371]]) New Orleans -- Randy Moss, WR, 6-5, 200 -- Marshall  He is *the Lawrence Phillips of* /this draft/, more baggage than an airline.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q607][Michael Bloomberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/13/business/bringing-asia-on-line-hong-kong-tycoon-seeks-internet-success.html][1998/04/13/1009414]]) Lest people think Mr. Li aspires to be *the Michael Bloomberg of* /Asia/, he still views this latest venture as being in the entertainment tradition of Star TV.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1111386][Robert Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/15/dining/wine-talk-the-1855-ratings-etched-in-stone-almost.html][1998/04/15/1009797]]) Money was plentiful, peace reigned and thousands of workmen, driven by Baron Haussmann, *the Robert Moses of* /his day/, were carving Paris into an urban jewel.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131691][Wellington]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/19/books/chief-of-a-vanishing-empire.html][1998/04/19/1010622]]) To his British allies of the time he was ''*the Wellington of* /the Indians/,'' while his most formidable adversary, William Henry Harrison, the future President of the United States, called him ''one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things,'' adding, ''If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory that of Mexico or Peru.''
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/19/magazine/the-big-city-civil-obedience.html][1998/04/19/1010667]]) Mockus might be described as *the Rudy Giuliani of* /Bogota, Colombia/, although he is far more radical and Bogota is a far more raucous town than New York.
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260683][Grandma Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/19/us/fannie-spelce-cardiac-nurse-and-a-folk-artist-dies-at-89.html][1998/04/19/1010987]]) Mrs. Spelce's remarkable talent led to a one-woman show in New York, her inclusion in a number of folk art anthologies and renown as *the Grandma Moses of* /Texas/.
79. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260683][Grandma Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/19/us/fannie-spelce-cardiac-nurse-and-a-folk-artist-dies-at-89.html][1998/04/19/1010987]]) Mrs. Spelce, who had to overcome considerable odds to make it to the pinnacle of her profession and who earned acclaim as a folk artist known as *the Grandma Moses of* Texas, died at her home in Austin on April 11.+
80. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260683][Grandma Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/19/nyregion/news-summary-566918.html][1998/04/19/1011043]]) Fannie Lou Spelce  The folk artist known as *the Grandma Moses of* Texas was 89.+
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160499][Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/tv/signoff-the-simpsons-never-change-but-the-audience-does.html][1998/04/26/1012254]]) The Simpsons and their friends, with the possible exception of the precocious Lisa, a second grader with the potential to be *the Talleyrand of* /Springfield/, bungle through life the way some people parallel park, leaving gouged fenders, shattered headlights, incoherent rage and improperly filled-out paperwork.
82. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767][T. S. Eliot]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/books/new-noteworthy-paperbacks-538752.html][1998/04/26/1012286]]) The book reveals ''*the Eliot of* nervous disease and sexual terror .+
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193368][Ted Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/nyregion/mom-pop-station-s-big-city-aspiration-upstate-tv-channel-court-for-spot-new-york.html][1998/04/26/1012685]]) Dick French Jr. is *the Ted Turner of* /the Hudson Valley/.
84. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193368][Ted Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/nyregion/news-summary-668990.html][1998/04/26/1012737]]) A Local Media Mogul  Dick French Jr. is *the Ted Turner of* the Hudson Valley -- in four years, he has expanded Regional News Network, a 24-hour news operation based in Kingston, N.Y., from a station that broadcast to 250,000 homes upstate to one that reaches 2.4 million homes through cable systems in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.+
85. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875][Oscar Wilde]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/theater/theater-review-wilde-out-and-down-in-london-and-naples.html][1998/04/30/1013447]]) Many traits distinguish *the Oscar Wilde of* ''The Judas Kiss,'' David Hare's dense marble monument of a play, from the more ordinary run of mankind that surrounds him: his epigrammatic articulateness, of course; his sartorial flair; his unbending insistence on his tailor-made philosophy.+
86. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001][Mahatma Gandhi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/theater/gandhi-off-the-pedestal-all-too-human-parent-as-well-as-great-guru.html][1998/05/02/1013868]]) Until a closing sequence that signals the reconciliation of father and son in the afterlife, *the Gandhi of* the play comes across as a heartless martinet.+
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/travel/choice-tables-south-beach-cuisine-revs-up.html][1998/05/03/1014088]]) It is the Miami outpost of a small dining empire established by Norma Shirley, a Jamaican chef referred to in the restaurant's promotional material as ''*the Julia Child of* /the Caribbean/.''
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/books/new-noteworthy-paperbacks-643793.html][1998/05/03/1014199]]) For all his aspirations to become *the Shakespeare of* /the 20th century/, a changed Broadway drove Anderson from experimentation ''in an age of prose'' to more commercial considerations.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192707][Charles Barkley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/sports/sports-of-the-times-winners-can-yell-wherever-they-are.html][1998/05/03/1014458]]) ''When I was growing up, I followed Bill Hartack, who was *the Charles Barkley of* /jockeys/.
90. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/03/travel/choice-tables-south-beach-cuisine-revs-up.html][1998/05/03/1014514]]) It is the Miami outpost of a small dining empire established by Norma Shirley, a Jamaican chef referred to in the restaurant's promotional material as ''*the Julia Child of* /the Caribbean/.''+ (D)
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348011][Joe Montana]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/04/sports/pro-football-arenas-and-records-keep-a-cityhawk-in-the-game.html][1998/05/04/1014635]]) The CityHawks' new coach, Chuck Shelton, said with a straight face that Perez is *the Joe Montana of* /Arena ball/.
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1370974][Peter Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/10/style/style-over-substance-bali-hai-now-on-avenue-a.html][1998/05/10/1016005]]) In this singles scene, it is *the Peter Allen of* /potent potables/.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40475][Joan Crawford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/10/style/to-mommie-dearest-a-twisted-mother-s-day.html][1998/05/10/1016022]]) But in these last two decades, *the Joan Crawford of* ''Mommie Dearest'' the movie has lived another, quite different life.+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/10/us/scientist-s-plan-map-all-dna-within-3-years.html][1998/05/10/1016116]]) Mr. White, however, has no evident ambitions to become *the Bill Gates of* /the genome world/.
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/13/opinion/journal-the-seinfeld-hoax.html][1998/05/13/1016699]]) In MSNBC's continuing coverage of the story it labels ''Seinoff,'' one awestruck correspondent this week straight-facedly presented a Syracuse University professor's pronouncement that ''Seinfeld'' was ''*the Picasso of* /American sitcoms/.''
96. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34969][Benjamin Franklin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/17/books/private-gain-public-good.html][1998/05/17/1017447]]) O'Toole extracts from American history many moments like these, when dollars butted hard up against moral values, viewing each through the lens of historical figures like Ford, *the Benjamin Franklin of* ''Poor Richard's Almanack'' and the high-minded Georgia colonist James Oglethorpe.+
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28493][Ralph Fiennes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/17/theater/theater-the-royal-shakespeare-renewing-itself-under-fire.html][1998/05/17/1017539]]) ''Our policy has traditionally been to create our own stars,'' Mr. Noble said, ''so when critics ask, 'Where are *the Ralph Fiennes of* /today/?'
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/17/nyregion/westhampton-aims-for-respect-with-arts-center.html][1998/05/17/1017574]]) ''We've become *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the Hamptons/,'' said Katlean de Monchy, a summer and weekend resident of Westhampton Beach.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/18/world/nuclear-anxiety-point-man-berger-manages-welter-crises-post-cold-war-white-house.html][1998/05/18/1018033]]) ''He is *the Cal Ripken of* /national security advisers/,'' said William Danvers, who was the White House liaison to Congress until last year.
100. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/18/world/nuclear-anxiety-point-man-berger-manages-welter-crises-post-cold-war-white-house.html][1998/05/18/1018033]]) The final paragraph, referring to Mr. Berger, should have read:         ''He is *the Cal Ripken of* national security advisers,'' said William Danvers, who was the White House liaison to Congress until last year.+
101. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/19/nyregion/c-corrections-015580.html][1998/05/19/1018271]]) ''He is *the Cal Ripken of* /national security advisers/,'' said William Danvers, who was the White House liaison to Congress until last year.+ (D)
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49004][Patrick Swayze]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/22/movies/film-review-some-enchanted-evening-man-sees-true-love-across-a-crowded-nation.html][1998/05/22/1018818]]) If Mr. Fraser continues to take such roles, he could become the 90's answer to *the Patrick Swayze of* ''/Dirty Dancing/.''
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/24/magazine/the-disconnected-attachment-theory-the-ultimate-experiment.html][1998/05/24/1019130]]) Tepper is an adoptive mother who turned herself into an advocate -- ''*the Ralph Nader of* /attachment/,'' a friend calls her -- and like a lot of advocates she can be blunt and ornery and single-minded.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41142][Jane Fonda]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/29/nyregion/a-conviction-ruled-unjust-leads-to-a-redemption.html][1998/05/29/1020520]]) During her stay there, the longest of any female inmate in New York State, she earned a high school equivalency diploma, counseled prisoners with AIDS, won prizes for her photography, became an accomplished chef and taught exercise classes with such panache that she was known as *the Jane Fonda of* /the Westchester County prison/.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q729281][Latrell Sprewell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/31/magazine/the-real-asian-miracle-the-world-s-biggest-going-out-of-business-sale.html][1998/05/31/1020863]]) Korea is like the brilliant athlete who has troubles off the field and is looking for a team to take a chance on him, *the Latrell Sprewell of* /the Global Economy/.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106465][John Grisham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/31/nyregion/bustling-queens-library-speaks-in-many-tongues.html][1998/05/31/1021230]]) At the Flushing library, a quick glance inside the back cover of ''The Young Flying Fox'' -- one in a 36-volume series by Jin Yung, *the John Grisham of* /Chinese kung fu books/ -- suggests how heavily used the library is.
107. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151231][Annie Lennox]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/05/movies/critic-s-choice-film-a-lesbian-and-gay-festival-with-mainstream-appeal.html][1998/06/05/1022160]]) Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, it follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teen-ager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George and *the Annie Lennox of* the Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images.+
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/07/style/weddings-beth-leventhal-kenneth-fromkin.html][1998/06/07/1022745]]) ''I call him *the Einstein of* /horses/.''
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/07/nyregion/neighborhood-report-new-york-up-close-two-radio-pirates-to-drop-anchor.html][1998/06/07/1022812]]) ''Our purpose is to be *the Johnny Appleseed of* /microradio and free speech/.''
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/08/world/pompeii-journal-a-pagan-gem-and-next-door-the-mob-s-dead-hand.html][1998/06/08/1023112]]) The town of Pompeii does have one famous shrine, *the Madonna of* Pompeii, which each year attracts more than 1.5 million religious pilgrims.+
111. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/arts/classical-music-fortepiano-gets-a-test-beethoven.html][1998/06/14/1024323]]) That is part of the reason *the Beethoven of* Schnabel, Alfred Brendel, Richard Goode and others will never become obsolete even if some future Schnabel scales the summits using period pianos; but that is also why this set deserves attention.+
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/arts/classical-music-fortepiano-gets-a-test-beethoven.html][1998/06/14/1024323]]) In many repertories they are no longer remarkable, but the fortepiano (*the Cinderella of* /period instruments/) inflames debates reminiscent of the early-music wars of 10 years ago.
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159694][Christian Dior]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/style/stylist-socialite-hairdressers-makeup-artists-social-darlings-invited-everywhere.html][1998/06/14/1024527]]) ''He's a businessman and an artist, *the Christian Dior of* /his generation/,'' said  Mrs. Wyatt, who introduced him to a gathering of her friends in Houston last spring.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/business/bickering-clubhouse-lawsuits-against-golfing-giant-disrupt-manicured-kingdom.html][1998/06/14/1024559]]) The company bears the strong stamp of Mr. Dedman Sr., described by one industry executive as ''*the Henry Ford of* /the club management business/.''
115. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1381985][John Gardner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/21/books/the-war-at-home.html][1998/06/21/1025929]]) Somewhat like *the John Gardner of* ''Nickel Mountain'' and the Alan Sternberg of ''Camaro City,'' he has proved willing to go to remarkable lengths to keep us turning pages about ordinary, outwardly boring folk, often with fractured marriages and nothing jobs (his best protagonist to date delivers Wonder Bread), likely to drive beat-up cars and own dogs with names like Prince and Bomber.+
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/21/magazine/sunday-june-21-1998-questions-for-dennis-thresh-fong.html][1998/06/21/1026007]]) Q: You're *the Tiger Woods of* /Quake/.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/22/sports/world-cup-98-singing-dancing-and-cheering-in-streets-of-teheran.html][1998/06/22/1026623]]) When Hamid Reza Estili -- known as *the James Bond of* /Iran/ -- scored the first goal, Iranians throughout Teheran were thunderstruck.
118. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2612920][Looking Glass]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/24/opinion/editorial-observer-through-the-looking-glass-of-modern-music.html][1998/06/24/1026989]]) Editorial Observer; Through *the Looking Glass of* Modern Music+
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/28/nyregion/restaurants-class-act.html][1998/06/28/1027911]]) Ten years later, Mr. Schneekloth is not only the owner of Jeffrey's, one of the more notable restaurants at the shore, he is also *the Julia Child of* /this thriving community/, the owner of a cooking studio whose enrollment has swelled from 50 to 400 students.
120. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/29/sports/world-cup-98-france-wins-with-the-golden-goal.html][1998/06/29/1028333]]) Today, he strutted onto the field and, as usual, placed his good-luck charm -- a medallion honoring *the Madonna of* Lourdes -- on the grass inside his goal.+
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/30/business/hilton-gambling-split-off-seen-then-merger-with-grand-casinos.html][1998/06/30/1028525]]) ''I believe the gaming business is kind of *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the stock market/,'' Hilton's chief executive, Stephen F. Bollenbach, told securities analysts in April in a conference call to discuss earnings.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/05/nyregion/long-island-guide.html][1998/07/05/1029502]]) The three-concert series opens on Saturday at 8 P.M. at the Chirch of the Open Door on Main Bayview Road in Southold with a solo recital by Dave Frishberg, a singer who has been called ''*the Woody Allen of* /song/.''
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/05/nyregion/school-principals-still-seeking-a-little-respect-and-a-contract.html][1998/07/05/1029740]]) But the Chancellor has shown little inclination to bargain, prompting the union to dash off a news release the other day urging him ''to treat workers with respect'' -- a line that seemed apt for an organization that, in one sense, is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /municipal unions/.
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4395105][Cokie Roberts]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/06/business/radio-s-sports-babe-blows-away-stereotypes.html][1998/07/06/1029877]]) ''They wanted to turn me into *the Cokie Roberts of* /sports broadcasting/, a place where the hardest sports news is explained in the most mind-numbing manner possible,'' she wrote.
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/06/business/for-officeless-place-call-home-not-just-copy-shop-any-longer-kinko-s-pushes-its.html][1998/07/06/1029883]]) ''He's sort of *the Johnny Appleseed of* /new ideas/,'' said Donald Gogel, the Clayton, Dublier & Rice partner who led Kinko's through the reorganization and acted as interim chief executive until Mr. Hardin was hired.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/08/nyregion/public-lives.html][1998/07/08/1030303]]) BUDDY GRECO, who rose from being a singing pianist with Benny Goodman's orchestra to a solo career on the club, cruise ship and casino circuit, has become *the Cal Ripken of* /cabaret/.
127. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6483432][Lance Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/09/sports/baseball-for-mets-the-top-is-at-the-bottom.html][1998/07/09/1030590]]) In effect, the Mets have yet to replace *the Lance Johnson of* 1996, who hit .333 for the Mets in the leadoff spot, with an astounding 227 hits.+
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219521][Walter Brennan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/10/sports/world-cup-98-brazil-s-coach-never-so-sure-of-winning-as-he-is-now.html][1998/07/10/1030745]]) He seems to be *the Walter Brennan of* /the soccer set/, but he gives as much as he takes with the frenzied Brazilian news media.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7377593][Rudy Crew]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/11/nyregion/low-on-teachers-new-york-scours-austria.html][1998/07/11/1030949]]) To Dr. Kurt Scholz, the president of the Vienna Board of Education, who described himself as ''*the Rudy Crew of* /Austria/,'' the exchange is about a lot more than the law of supply and demand.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213550][Billy Graham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/12/books/honk-if-you-love-buddha.html][1998/07/12/1031036]]) Thurman has been called *the Billy Graham of* /Buddhism/, and that is not a bad caricature.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/13/nyregion/still-swinging-heavy-sticks-old-timers-reassert-mastery-game-life.html][1998/07/13/1031595]]) Now playing his 72d season, Mr. Ballard has a lifetime average of .405, is a member of the Stickball Hall of Fame and is, as well, *the Jackie Robinson of* /Stickball/.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104266][Mel Brooks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/14/science/conversation-with-dr-leon-lederman-science-serious-business-mel-brooks-physics.html][1998/07/14/1031701]]) You've been called ''*the Mel Brooks of* /the physics world/.''
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131324][Janet Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-918598.html][1998/07/17/1032327]]) She's *the Janet Jackson of* /salsa/, always working on revenge and deliverance from the evil of masculinity.
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616][Marilyn Monroe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/us/helendale-journal-a-true-believer-in-a-beguiling-and-teasing-art-form.html][1998/07/17/1032384]]) From Los Angeles to New York, she was billed as *the Marilyn Monroe of* /Burlesque/.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/17/nyregion/nyc-disturbing-the-peace-to-keep-it.html][1998/07/17/1032449]]) And that, Ms. Dolensek said with a slight roll of the eyes, would mean more irritation for City Island's 4,500 residents, who in a sense are *the Greta Garbo of* /New York/.
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60809][Ansel Adams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/22/nyregion/public-lives-bridge-photographer-with-a-taste-for-trivia.html][1998/07/22/1033645]]) Know any eight-leggers who lug along a $3,000 camera, a $4,000 gyroscope stabilizer and the dream of being remembered as *the Ansel Adams of* /New York City bridges/?
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187324][Zelda Fitzgerald]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/nyregion/patsy-southgate-who-inspired-50-s-literary-paris-dies-at-70.html][1998/07/26/1034550]]) At a time when the young American writers were self-consciously trying to recreate the fabled Paris of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and other 1920's expatriates,  Miss Southgate, though sane, was *the Zelda Fitzgerald of* /the 1950's/.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/books/boston-rockers.html][1998/07/26/1034674]]) Lilly, the Exes' front woman, is all pouty smiles and sharp edges; Hank, their musical anchor, is a blend of unintended arrogance and striver's cheer (''*the Ross Perot of* /the Boston music scene/'').
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311332][Greg Louganis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/27/sports/goodwill-games-competition-proves-scarce-for-sautin.html][1998/07/27/1034879]]) Sautin acknowledges that he is *the Greg Louganis of* /this era/.
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/28/books/critic-s-notebook-19th-century-novelists-stop-spinning-in-your-graves.html][1998/07/28/1034931]]) But on the 19th-century list would be Charles Dickens and Herman Melville, Jane Austen and Mark Twain (''*the Lincoln of* /our literature/,'' said William Dean Howells).
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/nyregion/public-lives-a-little-ham-for-brooklyn-s-morning-rush.html][1998/07/30/1035441]]) Sam Schwartz, who writes the Gridlock Sam column for The Daily News, calls him *the Beethoven of* /traffic cops/ -- in other words, he does not direct traffic so much as conduct it, like a symphony.
142. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/03/arts/latest-biker-hangout-guggenheim-ramp.html][1998/08/03/1036565]]) A 1993 one-of-a-kind replica of it has become *the Mona Lisa of* the show.+
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36023][Calvin Coolidge]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/04/sports/baseball-mendoza-s-pitches-move-for-the-yanks-but-he-is-staying-put.html][1998/08/04/1036769]]) Ramiro Mendoza is *the Calvin Coolidge of* /the Yankees/, virtually silent among louder teammates such as Tim Raines and Derek Jeter.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303207][Ricky Nelson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/06/books/reality-returns-for-an-anointed-author.html][1998/08/06/1037050]]) I just want to laugh like a fool, and say, shoot, I feel like *the Ricky Nelson of* /novelists/.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177854][Lorenzo de' Medici]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/06/technology/news-watch-a-half-million-pictures-to-beautify-your-words.html][1998/08/06/1037053]]) Bill Gates has established himself as *the Lorenzo de' Medici of* /digitized art/ through his privately held company, the Corbis Corporation, which has amassed the rights to 23 million images and photographs.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/16/travel/the-castle-as-show-biz.html][1998/08/16/1039275]]) But instead of the puttering Duchess, it is owned by the Tussauds Group, *the P. T. Barnum of* /British history/.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83321][Giacomo Casanova]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/20/arts/arts-abroad-lewis-carroll-revisited-in-a-looking-glass-darkly.html][1998/08/20/1040311]]) ''Dodgson was *the Casanova of* /the Victorian nursery/,'' he offers.
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/23/magazine/splice-einstein-and-sammy-glick-add-a-little-magellan.html][1998/08/23/1040905]]) ''The question scientists are asking,'' says Lori Andrews, a professor of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, ''is does he want to be *the Bill Gates of* /the human genome/?''
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182882][John James Audubon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/23/nyregion/connecticut-guide-440639.html][1998/08/23/1041000]]) ''Trout'' was published when Mr. Prosek was a 21-year-old undergraduate at Yale, gaining him a reputation as ''*the Audubon of* /trout/.''
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q782693][Bobby Thomson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/23/nyregion/new-jersey-after-129-years-sporting-goods-business-reluctantly-shuts-its-doors.html][1998/08/23/1041034]]) Bobby Thomson, *the Bobby Thomson of* the old New York Giants baseball team, has been into Dreier's Sporting Goods to say goodbye.+
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51516][John Madden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/23/nyregion/keeping-up-with-dow-jones-suites-streets-all-eyes-are-stock-market.html][1998/08/23/1041258]]) Market mania has created a whole new group of celebrities, from Warren E. Buffett to James J. Cramer (a money manager who has become *the John Madden of* /investment commentary/) to Laszlo Birinyi, a market guru in Greenwich, Conn., who appears on PBS's ''Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser.''
152. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q438876][Fernando Meligeni]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/27/sports/tennis-error-prone-rusedski-advances.html][1998/08/27/1042011]]) ''If you can win and not play your best, that can give you confidence,'' Rusedski said of his drizzle-interrupted 6-2, 7-6 (8-6) victory over *the Fernando Meligeni of* Brazil.+
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209417][Wallis Simpson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/us/now-conflicting-views-from-women-who-supported-clinton.html][1998/08/28/1042176]]) This is not *the Wallis Simpson of* /America/.
154. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24266344][David M. Armstrong]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/30/books/liar-and-son.html][1998/08/30/1042490]]) Just before the decapitation, *the Armstrong of* the poem astonishes his executioners by performing a perfect handstand and then kneeling to accept death with dignity.+
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q172788][O. Henry]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/30/magazine/word-image-saving-private-berger.html][1998/08/30/1042510]]) He was our master storyteller, *the O. Henry of* /daily journalism/.
156. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131691][Wellington]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/30/nyregion/a-party-you-say-here-s-where-to-throw-it.html][1998/08/30/1042630]]) Prime entree picks are the mesquite-grilled tuna with its topper of black olive tapenade and sauce of Provencal vegetables and *the Wellington of* venison.+
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182882][John James Audubon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/30/nyregion/connecticut-guide-the-changing-flag.html][1998/08/30/1042645]]) John Cody, called *the Audubon of* /moths/, specializes in painting that particular creature.
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/30/nyregion/our-towns-babe-ruth-of-collectors-is-looking-for-a-way-out.html][1998/08/30/1042862]]) The ultimate baseball fanatic owns *the Babe Ruth of* /baseball collections/, the biggest private baseball memorabilia collection in the world.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7814][Giotto di Bondone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/04/arts/critic-s-notebook-museums-built-on-the-passion-to-collect-anything.html][1998/09/04/1043727]]) I couldn't always tell the difference between the works of R. Madison Mitchell, a local funeral director, who was, I gather, *the Giotto of* /Havre de Grace/, and the works of Bob McGaw Jr., who perfected a way of decorating his decoys that is called scratch painting.
160. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/05/world/reporter-s-notebook-the-faces-of-clinton-weary-to-somber-to-vibrant.html][1998/09/05/1043959]]) This was *the Bill Clinton of* the 1992 campaign, with perfect emotional pitch in his remarks and a soothing arm for the bereaved.+
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1004137][Bull Connor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/08/us/atlanta-rally-unburdened-by-ills-of-harlem-s.html][1998/09/08/1044851]]) The movement has always had to have a Bull Connor, and Giuliani may become *the Bull Connor of* /the new millennium/.''
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/technology/user-s-guide-confronting-truths-about-file-storage.html][1998/09/10/1045162]]) After defragmenting my hard drive recently, I felt I was well on the way to becoming *the Martha Stewart of* /computer maintenance/.
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308441][Eppie Lederer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/technology/every-dog-has-its-data-web-has-pets-way-pets-have-fleas-there-s-no-leash-law.html][1998/09/10/1045188]]) Where else could you find Czarina Oksana Borzoi Diva Dog Needlenose of MuffinTush, *the Ann Landers of* /canine expatriate nobility/, who answers questions that borzois and other dogs instruct their human servants to E-mail to her?
164. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/arts/picasso-s-weeping-dora-lover-s-collection-helps-fill-in-the-portrait.html][1998/09/10/1045201]]) But by then, by many accounts, *the Picasso of* her shrine seemed more real than the living artist.+
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508202][George Jones]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/11/arts/charlie-feathers-66-a-rockabilly-original.html][1998/09/11/1045404]]) He could have been *the George Jones of* /his day/ -- a superb stylist.''
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103949][Buster Keaton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/18/movies/film-review-kicks-swivels-and-wisecracks-on-hollywood-boulevard.html][1998/09/18/1047276]]) Fortunately, being *the Buster Keaton of* /martial arts/, he makes a doleful expression and comedic physical grace take the place of small talk.
167. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37571][Jackson Pollock]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/18/arts/finding-poetry-in-life-s-details.html][1998/09/18/1047283]]) Walker Evans might be called *the Jackson Pollock of* /American photography/.+ (D)
168. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37571][Jackson Pollock]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/18/arts/art-review-walker-evans-found-the-poetry-in-life-s-unvarnished-details.html][1998/09/18/1047304]]) Walker Evans might be called *the Jackson Pollock of* /American photography/.
169. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72334][Toni Morrison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/20/books/escape-to-new-york.html][1998/09/20/1047626]]) We can scarcely imagine Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison or James Baldwin looking backward; we can scarcely imagine Albert Murray, Charles Johnson or Walter Mosley -- not to mention *the Toni Morrison of* ''Beloved'' and ''Jazz'' -- doing much else.+
170. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/22/nyregion/nyu-relishes-visit-from-clinton-on-high-profile-day.html][1998/09/22/1048474]]) Dr. Sexton, who described himself as ''*the P. T. Barnum of* /legal education/,'' said the forum, which was called Strengthening Democracy in the Global Economy, was meant to showcase what the school calls its global law school initiative.
171. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296647][Ralph Lauren]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/23/nyregion/public-lives-from-architectural-showman-to-yale-dean.html][1998/09/23/1048736]]) Mr. Stern, a traditionalist, has himself had a lifelong love affair with molding, and there are complaints at Yale that installing *the Ralph Lauren of* /architecture/ -- the view of his critics -- sends the wrong message about the direction of the school.
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/25/movies/film-festival-review-jostling-and-stumbling-toward-a-fateful-15-minutes.html][1998/09/25/1049076]]) She goes to a plastic surgeon (Michael Lerner) who's been dubbed ''*the Michelangelo of* /Manhattan/'' by Newsweek.
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/27/us/joe-miller-who-did-his-part-for-baseball-is-dead-at-95.html][1998/09/27/1049648]]) Rocky as he was at first, Gehrig, whose fielding skills were still notoriously deficient when he joined the Yankees organization in 1923, proved such a quick study and had such acute eyesight that by the time Commerce won the New York City public school championship in 1920 he was already being called *the Babe Ruth of* /high school baseball in New York/.
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/27/sports/triathlon-ironman-triathlon-grows-it-s-now-20-and-still-bragging.html][1998/09/27/1049680]]) and is now a sportscaster, and David Bailey, *the Michael Jordan of* /motocross racing in the 1980's/ who became paralyzed in a racing accident and will compete in a wheelchair along part of the course.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298388][Noël Coward]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/27/arts/dance-black-or-white-they-re-birds-of-a-feather.html][1998/09/27/1049808]]) He has been described as *the Noel Coward of* /modern dance/, for works like ''Town and Country'' (contrasting views of the class system) and ''The Percys of Fitzrovia'' (a send-up of the bohemian Bloomsbury group).
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268056][Mr. Chips]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/01/books/making-books-a-bad-boy-s-good-awards.html][1998/10/01/1050567]]) While he's not exactly *the Mr. Chips of* /communications/, his listeners attend to him and have a surprisingly high income and education level for such a wild program.
177. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5383][David Bowie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/01/movies/glittering-ode-to-the-days-of-ziggy-stardust.html][1998/10/01/1050721]]) Todd Haynes's dazzlingly surreal ''Velvet Goldmine'' offers a celestial ''Here's looking at you, kid'' to the heyday of British glitter rock in general and to *the David Bowie of* the early 1970's in particular.+
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/nyregion/atlantic-city-at-the-casinos-125962.html][1998/10/04/1051212]]) And that was fine with the Met's trustees, who looked upon photography, more or less, as *the Elvis of* /the visual arts/: fast, slick and indecently young, with a history going back only as far as 1839.
179. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711333][Nelson Bunker Hunt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/books/arts-architecture-from-the-breakfast-of-champions-cerealectibles.html][1998/10/04/1051244]]) And then he found a Jetsons lunch box in a thrift shop in Cambridge, Mass., and soon he was crisscrossing the country, becoming *the Nelson Bunker Hunt of* /lunch box collectors/.
180. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/us/los-angeles-honors-legacy-of-tom-bradley.html][1998/10/06/1051936]]) Mr. Gore told the mourners that he had come to celebrate the life of a great American, ''in many ways *the Jackie Robinson of* /public service/.''
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72267][Cecil B. DeMille]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/us/joseph-baum-american-dining-s-high-stylist-dies-at-78.html][1998/10/06/1052027]]) ''He was *the Cecil B. DeMille of* /restaurateurs/ -- everything was a big production.''
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3241381][Linda Tripp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/07/us/owner-of-nfl-team-ties-ex-governor-to-extortion.html][1998/10/07/1052214]]) After watching the 45-minute hearing, a bent knuckle pressed against his lips, Mr. Edwards, who has not been charged in the case, announced to reporters in a descending elevator that his longtime friend had become ''*the Linda Tripp of* /Louisiana/.''
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160538][Gian Lorenzo Bernini]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/garden/at-home-with-jon-jerde-the-global-village-goes-pop-baroque.html][1998/10/08/1052345]]) ''JON JERDE,'' Steve Wynn declared grandly, ''is *the Bernini of* /our time/.''
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/garden/for-whom-the-sell-tolls-it-tolls-for-thee.html][1998/10/08/1052353]]) Ralph Lauren, *the Moses of* /cross-merchandising/, was just the beginning.
185. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160538][Gian Lorenzo Bernini]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/08/garden/at-home-with-jon-jerde-the-global-village-goes-pop-baroque.html][1998/10/08/1052508]]) ''JON JERDE,'' Steve Wynn declared grandly, ''is *the Bernini of* /our time/.''+ (D)
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/business/personal-business-to-the-beat-of-the-business-meeting.html][1998/10/11/1053270]]) Meetings are *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the business world/: While many good ideas come from them, meetings get no respect.
187. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26806][Danny DeVito]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/us/political-briefing.html][1998/10/11/1053342]]) The man politically masquerading in his place, she insists, is one Danny Divito, though she does not make clear whether she believes he is *the Danny DeVito of* film fame, who knows a bit about stand-in work, or whether it is some other Danny Divito or DeVito.+
188. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3241381][Linda Tripp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/sports/sports-times-applying-stern-measures-for-eddie-d-steinbrenner-yardstick.html][1998/10/11/1053352]]) Should that happen, Edwards's lawyers are very likely to be hard on the man Edwards has called ''*the Linda Tripp of* /Louisiana/.''
189. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190152][Larry Bird]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-braves-bugle-boy-starts-sounding-taps.html][1998/10/11/1053388]]) He is *the Larry Bird of* /baseball/.
190. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8612][Andrew Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/14/opinion/liberties-last-tango-in-dc.html][1998/10/14/1053952]]) His Presidency is already ruined -- he is *the Andrew Johnson of* /the counterculture/ -- and he can be penalized in any of a number of ways that will not rend the nation.
191. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157054][Giorgio Armani]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/15/arts/art-review-the-high-art-of-dressing-for-battle.html][1998/10/15/1054141]]) Why, the Michelangelo, the Cellini and *the Giorgio Armani of* /this highly specialized profession/, the most innovative and celebrated Italian armorer of the era.
192. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/18/magazine/the-player-the-woman-can-swing.html][1998/10/18/1054778]]) Few sportswriters have resisted the temptation to dub Pak ''*the Tiger Woods of* /the L.P.G.A./''
193. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/20/science/the-pill-at-40-renewed-improved-and-in-its-prime.html][1998/10/20/1055448]]) ''It is a lot safer for short-term use,'' said Barbara Seaman, who has been called *the Ralph Nader of* /the pill/ for her 1969 book ''The Doctors' Case Against the Pill.''+ (D)
194. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/20/science/the-pill-at-40-renewed-improved-and-in-its-prime.html][1998/10/20/1055618]]) ''It is a lot safer for short-term use,'' said Barbara Seaman, who has been called *the Ralph Nader of* /the pill/ for her 1969 book ''The Doctors' Case Against the Pill.''
195. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80048][Al Capone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/25/books/crime-389692.html][1998/10/25/1056575]]) This frees up Jonathan to sprinkle his acidic wit on art experts and thieves like Dan Menzies (''*the Al Capone of* /restoration/''), who has been engaged by the monastery to apply his savage artistry to its dubious Caravaggio.
196. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/27/sports/1998-new-york-marathon-on-the-run-every-day-for-more-than-23-years.html][1998/10/27/1057308]]) Jimmy Behr, a 51-year-old Staten Island schoolteacher, is *the Cal Ripken of* /running/.
197. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096683][Ted Koppel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/29/garden/muscling-in-on-martha-stewart.html][1998/10/29/1057739]]) ''I consider myself more of a teacher than a celebrity, a hostess or a star,'' said Ms. Jennings, *the Ted Koppel of* /life style/.+ (D)
198. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2096683][Ted Koppel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/29/garden/muscling-in-on-martha-stewart.html][1998/10/29/1057914]]) ''I consider myself more of a teacher than a celebrity, a hostess or a star,'' said Ms. Jennings, *the Ted Koppel of* /life style/.
199. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207][George W. Bush]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/31/nyregion/1998-campaign-connecticut-new-rowland-preaches-flexible-fun-republicanism.html][1998/10/31/1058218]]) His advisers hope he could be a Vice-Presidential candidate or a Cabinet secretary in a Republican administration, and Mr. Rowland was tickled to see himself referred to as ''*the George W. Bush of* /the North/'' in a recent article in U.S. News & World Report.
200. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/01/arts/art-artchitecture-malevolent-babies-busting-up-walls-sharpening-darts.html][1998/11/01/1058434]]) To her, he was *the John Wayne of* the movies, upright and principled.+
201. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/01/weekinreview/ideas-trends-women-s-work-in-japan-serving-tea-swallowing-insults.html][1998/11/01/1058652]]) They capture shots of her sitting in revealingly short skirts, and they dub her *the Madonna of* /the Cabinet/.
202. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/01/sports/baseball-notebook-mets-quickly-respond-to-a-push-from-the-bronx.html][1998/11/01/1058760]]) He doesn't always get along with his teammates, let alone the news media, and one physician who has dealt with players, though not Belle, calls him *the Mike Tyson of* /baseball/.
203. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462481][Mark McGwire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/01/tv/cover-story-broadway-s-cats-restaged-for-eternity-we-thought-they-were-kidding.html][1998/11/01/1058886]]) ''I was given a different lyric every night for the first 10 previews,'' Ms. Paige said, reminiscing on the telephone from London recently about those bygone days before ''Cats'' had become ''Cats,'' the long-runner in the West End and the longest-running production in Broadway history, *the Mark McGwire of* /the modern musical/.
204. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/04/dining/under-the-toque-here-s-emeril-where-s-the-chef.html][1998/11/04/1059331]]) Mr. Lagasse, at 39, could be called *the Julia Child of* /the 90's/, the most influential cook on television.
205. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/05/sports/horse-show-national-thrives-again-with-garden-as-setting.html][1998/11/05/1059693]]) The show also features equine entertainers including Bonfire, *the Michael Jordan of* /dressage horses/.
206. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347528][Liberace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/05/opinion/the-full-nelson-in-minnesota.html][1998/11/05/1059728]]) For starters, The Body's bad-guy persona, which included wearing feather boas and pink tights, seemed a blatant rip-off of the immortal Gorgeous George, *the Liberace of* /pro wrestling in the 1950's/.
207. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104000][Lauren Bacall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/06/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-715883.html][1998/11/06/1059917]]) That show starts at 12 P.M. And Sally Timms, *the Lauren Bacall of* /underground rock/, shows up as part of the rootsy bill tonight at Acme Underground (see below).
208. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5383][David Bowie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/06/movies/film-review-mixing-glam-and-glamour-in-a-wild-wildean-spirit.html][1998/11/06/1059931]]) Todd Haynes's dazzlingly surreal ''Velvet Goldmine'' offers a celestial ''Here's looking at you, kid'' to the heyday of British glitter rock in general and to *the David Bowie of* the early 1970's in particular.+
209. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/06/sports/horse-show-jumpers-aerialists-and-artists-to-the-hilt.html][1998/11/06/1060001]]) The exhibitions featured the trick horses of the charro champion Jerry Diaz, who surrounds himself and his palomino with a spinning lariat, as well as a balletic dressage demonstration by the four-time United States Olympian Robert Dover and Anky van Grunsven of the Netherlands, whose bay horse, Bonfire, is *the Michael Jordan of* /this sport/.
210. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3132849][Henry Hyde]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/07/opinion/journal-dewey-defeats-truman.html][1998/11/07/1060087]]) By contrast, Mr. Clinton ''came in here and he trashed the place,'' observes David Broder, who is so ritualistically called the fair-minded ''Dean'' of Washington journalists that you might say he is *the Henry Hyde of* /punditry/.
211. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/07/business/barnes-noble-rattles-industry-by-buying-top-book-wholesaler.html][1998/11/07/1060139]]) ''The Godzilla of publishing is wedding *the King Kong of* /distribution/.
212. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21544162][Nabob]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/nyregion/coping-in-foodie-heaven-with-the-nabob-of-nosh.html][1998/11/08/1060438]]) In Foodie Heaven With *the Nabob of* Nosh+
213. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/style/the-woody-allen-of-fashion-joins-the-club-at-saint-laurent.html][1998/11/08/1060522]]) You might call Mr. Elbaz, 37, *the Woody Allen of* /fashion/, so self-deprecating is his humor.
214. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201732][Robert Graves]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/09/books/books-of-the-times-men-behind-the-scenes-of-antiquity-s-carnage.html][1998/11/09/1060794]]) As a historical novelist, Mr. Pressfield, whose previous novel is ''The Legend of Bagger Vance,'' is not at the level of the very best ones, say, *the Robert Graves of* ''I, Claudius'' and ''Claudius the God.''+
215. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335][George Orwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/11/books/books-of-the-times-how-the-little-things-add-up-to-horror.html][1998/11/11/1061186]]) It anticipates *the George Orwell of* ''1984'' and Newspeak.+
216. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162005][Paul Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/12/technology/game-theory-leverage-and-win-the-old-fashioned-way.html][1998/11/12/1061418]]) You can be *the Paul Allen of* /the railroad industry/.
217. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364415][Bill Parcells]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/12/opinion/in-america-after-moynihan.html][1998/11/12/1061508]]) The Republican with the best shot is none other than Rudolph Giuliani, *the Bill Parcells of* /New York politics/.
218. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182665][Iggy Pop]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/13/movies/pop-guide.html][1998/11/13/1061675]]) Tribe 8 is a self-proclaimed lesbian punk band whose lead singer, Lynn Breedlove, is *the Iggy Pop of* /the 1990's/: a shocking, brilliant performer in leather pants and no shirt, the definition of transgressive freedom.Tonight at 8; tickets are $8 (Powers).
219. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-743631.html][1998/11/15/1062085]]) Larry Holmes became known as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /heavyweight champions/: despite his boxing skills, he didn't get much respect.
220. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123829][George Gershwin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/nyregion/on-the-towns-828017.html][1998/11/15/1062095]]) The pull of youth is strong, and this may be why a heart that understands the rectitude of hard-edged 1920's Gershwin still gravitates toward *the Gershwin of* Nelson Riddle.+
221. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/nyregion/an-immigrant-s-vision-created-garden-city.html][1998/11/15/1062232]]) ''Stewart didn't envision motor parkways or aviation,'' he continued, conjecturing whether the ''merchant prince,'' *the Bill Gates of* /his day/, intended to build himself a legacy.
222. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182642][John Glenn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/nyregion/life-imitates-art-in-music-man.html][1998/11/15/1062243]]) I am sort of like *the John Glenn of* /community theater/.
223. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/19/technology/nail-biting-time-in-the-game-arena.html][1998/11/19/1063282]]) Moments ago, in the preliminary round of the computer game championships, he didn't just beat but demolished Dennis Fong, who happens to be *the Michael Jordan of* /computer games/.
224. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/20/movies/film-review-eyeing-the-glitter-crazed-in-manhattan-s-dolce-vita.html][1998/11/20/1063495]]) She goes to a plastic surgeon (Michael Lerner) who's been dubbed ''*the Michelangelo of* /Manhattan/'' by  Newsweek.
225. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/20/arts/family-fare-television-finely-tuned.html][1998/11/20/1063513]]) They will be followed by the screenings, which begin with ''Famous Fred,'' a 25-minute Welsh program about two children who learn that their late pet ''had this secret life as *the Elvis of* /the cat world/,'' Ms. Lewis said.
226. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73823][Dirty Harry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/21/arts/discord-turns-academe-s-hot-team-cold.html][1998/11/21/1063767]]) The department's biggest names included Stanley Fish, its flamboyant chairman in those days; Frank Lentricchia, whom The Village Voice once called ''*the Dirty Harry of* /contemporary critical theory/;'' Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick, the co-founder of the growing academic field of ''queer theory,'' and, fleetingly, Henry Louis Gates Jr., now the ubiquitous chairman of Afro-American studies at Harvard.
227. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231178][Gloria Steinem]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/22/magazine/culture-zone-sorority-sisters.html][1998/11/22/1063948]]) Curiously, however, Cameron is now being celebrated as an avatar of sisterhood, *the Gloria Steinem of* /Victorian photography/.
228. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485635][Keith Haring]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/22/nyregion/art-works-from-china-many-political-but-conveyed-with-wit.html][1998/11/22/1064097]]) Zhang Dali has been called *the Keith Haring of* /China/ for his furtive spray painting of heads in profile.
229. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9711][Honoré de Balzac]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/23/nyregion/the-big-city-rejections-put-wolfe-in-elite-ranks.html][1998/11/23/1064542]]) TOM WOLFE has long aspired to be *the Balzac of* /his age/, and up in Washington Heights it is clear that he has at least partially succeeded.
230. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234952][Betsy Ross]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/25/nyregion/luba-elianoff-96-maker-of-elegant-linens.html][1998/11/25/1064913]]) Recalling that as a teen-ager she had made a flag for a Zionist parade in Riga, she came to regard herself as *the Betsy Ross of* /Zionism/.
231. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217298][David Letterman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/25/nyregion/luxurious-lookout-for-parade-san-remo-s-east-rooms-are-thanksgiving-sky-boxes.html][1998/11/25/1064917]]) One year, someone took Pepe Navarro, known as *the David Letterman of* /Spain/, to visit the Tobeys, who found him rather interesting.
232. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437088][Brooke Astor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/28/nyregion/about-new-york-a-chinese-oasis-for-the-soul-on-staten-island.html][1998/11/28/1065461]]) A friend of hers called her *the Brooke Astor of* /the Park Avenue Chinese/.''
233. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2723519][Pamela Harriman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/books/passage-to-america.html][1998/11/29/1066024]]) Meanwhile, his wife, Sumitra, *the Pamela Harriman of* /post-independence New Delhi/, is out every night ministering to the newly elected politicos streaming in from the provinces -- teaching them to use the right fork at the French Ambassador's dinner and sometimes romancing them afterward.
234. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7374][Alfred Hitchcock]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/04/movies/film-review-complete-with-double-identities-but-different-hair-rich-score.html][1998/12/04/1066979]]) The movie,  which aggressively parodies *the Alfred Hitchcock of* ''Vertigo'' and ''Marnie,'' may be a tongue-in-cheek spoof.+
235. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/books/the-man-who-helped-make-rome-eternal.html][1998/12/06/1067343]]) Almost from his birth in 1598, Gianlorenzo Bernini was groomed to be *the Michelangelo of* /his age/.
236. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888302][Bob Vila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/books/cooking.html][1998/12/06/1067344]]) This pared-down, workmanlike approach to Italian food -- viewers of Batali's shows on the Food Network, ''Molto Mario'' and ''Mediterranean Mario,'' know him as *the Bob Vila of* /chefs/ -- makes ''Simple Italian Food'' immensely appealing and endlessly useful.
237. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/13/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-through-prague-to-lhasa.html][1998/12/13/1069110]]) His wanderings culminate in a visit to the Forbidden City of Lhasa, where he tries to warn *the Dalai Lama of* the threat posed by the coming highway: ''It might well bring hospitals, electricity and technology, but little roads will then go to the lake, to the Valley of the Yetis, to the caves and monasteries.+
238. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2905182][Adam Tihany]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/13/nyregion/new-yorkers-co-three-kerrymen-know-how-to-get-a-pub-right.html][1998/12/13/1069441]]) The traditional pub decor of Tir Na Nog, where every furnishing, down to the last brick (straight from Belfast) has been imported from the Irish isle, is the work of Lorri Sinclair and of Philip Donaghy, who might be called *the Adam Tihany of* /Ireland/, since he has designed 12 bars in Dublin and elsewhere.
239. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8440][Hugo Chavez]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/20/weekinreview/the-world-in-latin-america-the-strongman-stirs-in-his-grave.html][1998/12/20/1071267]]) ''I am not the Peron of Venezuela, I am *the Chavez of* Venezuela,'' he has said.+ (W)
240. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q963129][Lawrence Taylor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/25/sports/pro-football-having-a-deep-impact-on-vikings-success.html][1998/12/25/1072352]]) After only 15 career games, Moss is developing into *the Lawrence Taylor of* /offense/.
241. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271939][Chuck Yeager]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/27/books/southern-exposure.html][1998/12/27/1072570]]) Nansen was *the Chuck Yeager of* /polar exploration/.
242. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/27/sports/1998-in-review-champions-all-and-all-in-anonymity.html][1998/12/27/1072824]]) Here's to Brian Foster, *the Michael Jordan of* /BMX racing/, whose bike-riding skills earn him more than $100,000 per year.
243. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313013][Brian Wilson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/31/movies/critic-s-notebook-beyond-the-meteors-another-riskier-98.html][1998/12/31/1073562]]) The enrapturing beauty and peculiar naivete of ''The Thin Red Line'' heightened the impression of Terrence Malick as *the Brian Wilson of* /the film world/.

** 1999
1. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7595989][Stacks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/02/arts/beyond-the-stacks-of-pride-and-money-a-3-way-library-race.html][1999/01/02/1073908]]) Beyond *the Stacks of* Pride and Money: A 3-Way Library Race+
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103949][Buster Keaton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/03/arts/dance-performing-directing-and-paying-the-bills.html][1999/01/03/1074179]]) Critics and contemporaries have called Mr. Curran *the Buster Keaton of* /dance/, because his style suggests a sad comedic reverie.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/03/business/business-to-the-beat-of-the-bleat-ranchers-aim-to-satisfy-the-demand-for-goat.html][1999/01/03/1074221]]) ''We aim to be *the Tyson of* /goats/,'' said Stuart Weiss, a co-owner.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335813][James Herriot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/03/nyregion/neighborhood-report-new-york-up-close-james-herriot-west-18th-st-treats-last-pet.html][1999/01/03/1074259]]) ''He was *the James Herriot of* /New York City/,'' said a client, Michele Gover, referring to the British country veterinarian who wrote such best sellers as ''All Creatures  Great and Small.''
5. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/04/movies/connections-in-pursuit-of-moses-from-exodus-to-prince-of-egypt.html][1999/01/04/1074575]]) Connections article by Edward Rothstein contrasts *the Moses of* the Bible with the hero of the animated film The Prince of Egypt, which promotes idea that self-knowledge eventually leads to liberation; photo (M)+
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6294][Hillary Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/08/arts/antiques-much-more-than-meets-the-eye.html][1999/01/08/1075423]]) Elisa was *the Hillary Clinton of* /her day/: intelligent, educated and strong willed.
7. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30908][Wilhelm Tell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/10/arts/music-sorrow-in-deeper-darker-tones.html][1999/01/10/1075851]]) Thus Thomas Hampson describes Mattia Battistini, whose nearly five-decade reign as Don Giovanni and Rigoletto, as *the William Tell of* Rossini and the Hamlet of Ambroise Thomas in opera houses from Rome to London by way of St. Petersburg at the turn of the century featured no episode stranger than his assumption of the title role of Jules Massenet's ''Werther.''+
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100937][Fred Astaire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/10/arts/television-radio-the-power-of-personality-how-divine.html][1999/01/10/1075865]]) HE was *the Fred Astaire of* /repartee/, a man whose tailoring seemed to precede his birth.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1615][Neil Armstrong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/10/movies/one-one-of-a-kind-comic-impersonating-another.html][1999/01/10/1075868]]) I think of him as *the Neil Armstrong of* /comedy/.
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/10/nyregion/new-yorkers-co-radio-pirates-drop-anchor-together.html][1999/01/10/1075993]]) ''If it works it will go down as *the Johnny Appleseed of* /radio/.''
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1111386][Robert Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/10/nyregion/leon-m-goldstein-dies-at-66-led-a-city-university-college.html][1999/01/10/1076147]]) ''He was *the Robert Moses of* /CUNY/,'' said Jay Hershenson,  CUNY's vice chancellor for university relations.
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q435203][Katharine Graham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/11/business/media-the-kay-graham-of-japan-s-media-industry.html][1999/01/11/1076310]]) She is, some say, *the Katharine Graham of* /Japan's media industry/.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180748][Mark Spitz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/12/opinion/foreign-affairs-a-dangerous-peace.html][1999/01/12/1076537]]) Bibi is *the Mark Spitz of* /Israeli politics/ -- no Israeli leader has ever crisscrossed the Rubicon faster or more often.
14. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5091856][Cherchen Man]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/13/books/books-of-the-times-silent-giants-as-guides-on-an-ancient-thoroughfare.html][1999/01/13/1076694]]) There is, for example, *the Cherchen Man of* about 1000 B.C., a 6-foot-6-inch giant with Caucasian features found wrapped in colorful textiles in a tomb in the sandy, salty Tarim Basin of far western China.+
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1631][Édith Piaf]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/14/arts/the-pop-life-treats-for-off-the-menu-tastes.html][1999/01/14/1077023]]) Call her *the Edith Piaf of* /Nafta/, this American-born, Spanish-speaking resident of Montreal is thoroughly modern in her syncretic approach to pop, and classic in her florid, imperious singing.
16. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314771][Maurice Sendak]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/books/children-s-books-778249.html][1999/01/17/1077654]]) Gorgeously illustrated in a style happily luxuriating somewhere between the Muppets and *the Maurice Sendak of* ''Where the Wild Things Are,'' ''Monster Stew'' offers, pictorially, everything the small child's mind desires: witches, monsters both cute and fearsome and even princesses of various descriptions.+
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/weekinreview/ideas-trends-they-re-sort-of-like-mike.html][1999/01/17/1077956]]) The last time he retired, to play baseball, the Chicago Bulls' owner, Jerry Reinsdorf, called him *the Babe Ruth of* /basketball/.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/weekinreview/ideas-trends-they-re-sort-of-like-mike.html][1999/01/17/1077956]]) Meet *the Michael Jordan of* /…/
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/weekinreview/ideas-trends-they-re-sort-of-like-mike.html][1999/01/17/1077956]]) Terje Haakenson, a Norwegian, executes moves on a snowboard that nobody had ever seen before, so he's dubbed *the Michael Jordan of* /snowboarding/ -- in every interview and article on him.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/weekinreview/ideas-trends-they-re-sort-of-like-mike.html][1999/01/17/1077956]]) That makes him *the Michael Jordan of* /cricket/.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/17/weekinreview/ideas-trends-they-re-sort-of-like-mike.html][1999/01/17/1077956]]) To his publicist, that makes him *the Michael Jordan of* /Mexico/.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213919][George Foreman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/20/sports/plus-tennis-hall-of-fame-mcenroe-joins-mcgregor-on-list.html][1999/01/20/1078755]]) My stated goal is to be *the George Foreman of* /tennis/.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442202][Vanna White]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/21/nyregion/the-name-behind-those-ping-pong-balls.html][1999/01/21/1078893]]) But it is Ms. Vega, 43, who has become *the Vanna White of* /the lottery drawings/, invited to more charity events and panel discussions and onto the Oprah Winfrey show for a makeover.
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103949][Buster Keaton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/22/movies/new-video-releases-971545.html][1999/01/22/1079076]]) It's fortunate that Jackie Chan is *the Buster Keaton of* /martial arts films/ because Chris Tucker, his partner in Brett Ratner's comedic action film, talks many times too much for both of them.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640936][Robert Ryman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/22/arts/art-in-review-987760.html][1999/01/22/1079251]]) Susanna Coffey could be called *the Robert Ryman of* /self-portraiture/.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44616][Wyatt Earp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/23/us/a-boston-firebrand-alienates-his-allies-even-as-he-saves-whales.html][1999/01/23/1079361]]) That's why they call me *the Wyatt Earp of* /whales/, because I'm just saying, 'Let's obey the law.'
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2458861][Bob Costas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/magazine/wayward-intellectual-finds-god.html][1999/01/24/1079816]]) A prominent journalist is ''*the Bob Costas of* /literary criticism/, a fan.''
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223839][Larry Flynt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/nyregion/art-review-decadence-from-the-turn-of-another-century.html][1999/01/24/1079942]]) In 1896 he began to illustrate literary classics for the publisher Leonard Smithers, whom Mr. Skemer describes as ''*the Larry Flynt of* /his day/,'' meaning his intentions were wider than merely purveying pornography; he wanted to challenge Victorian social standards.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/sports/backtalk-good-mike-bad-mike-and-the-anti-mike.html][1999/01/24/1080017]]) If you think that Mike will live forever, remember the role Johnny Carson played in the national culture (he was *the Michael Jordan of* /late-night TV/) and the enormous coverage of his retirement and his replacements.
30. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2922982][Boy Wonder]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/28/arts/charles-luckman-architect-who-designed-penn-station-s-replacement-dies-at-89.html][1999/01/28/1080783]]) In 1937, at age 27, he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine as *the Boy Wonder of* American industry.+
31. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2346817][Steve Atwater]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/28/sports/super-bowl-xxxiii-on-pro-football-hard-hitter-with-clout-left.html][1999/01/28/1080826]]) He sees how *the Steve Atwater of* 1999 cannot possibly be the Steve Atwater of 1989.+
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2346817][Steve Atwater]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/28/sports/super-bowl-xxxiii-on-pro-football-hard-hitter-with-clout-left.html][1999/01/28/1080826]]) He sees how the Steve Atwater of 1999 cannot possibly be *the Steve Atwater of* 1989.+
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q694774][Joseph Cornell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/01/arts/frederick-sommer-93-maker-of-inventive-surreal-images.html][1999/02/01/1081906]]) Variously described as a gadfly, an eccentric, a photographer's photographer and *the Joseph Cornell of* /photography/, Mr. Sommer worked in relative isolation in Arizona for more than a half-century and until the last several years was the medium's best-kept secret.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/02/arts/london-museum-s-good-omen-after-troubles-approval-extension-cheers-v.html][1999/02/02/1082040]]) Understandably, it began to seem like *the Cinderella of* /South Kensington/.
35. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6771380][Marks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/04/garden/at-home-with-julia-sweeney-year-of-the-circling-wagons.html][1999/02/04/1082469]]) Teak: New, or With *the Marks of* Age+
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q873][Meryl Streep]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/07/movies/film-second-fiddles-front-and-center.html][1999/02/07/1083167]]) For a quintessential supporting player like Joan Allen, who has become *the Meryl Streep of* /that category/, she seems primed for her third supporting nomination as the 50's sitcom wife in ''Pleasantville.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234952][Betsy Ross]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/07/weekinreview/the-world-ruling-class-building-modernity-on-desert-mirages.html][1999/02/07/1083390]]) But he is not remembered as *the Betsy Ross of* /Arabia/.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/14/magazine/the-disciples-of-discipline.html][1999/02/14/1084883]]) His practice boarded up, the 51-year-old Rosemond wanders the country eight months of the year, *the Johnny Appleseed of* /discipline/, putting on nearly 250 shows annually.
39. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/14/weekinreview/ideas-trends-for-y2k-utopians-a-chance-to-remake-the-system.html][1999/02/14/1085089]]) But while *the Cassandra of* old was cursed by Apollo to have her prophecies ignored, Mrs. O'Riley, who became enthusiastic about self-sufficiency when she left New York to homestead in the Alaskan bush, finds ready audiences of people who seem to secretly long for an extended Y2K camping experience.+
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/14/nyregion/wine-under-20-a-cinderella-from-loire.html][1999/02/14/1085295]]) Savennieres, *the Cinderella of* /French whites/, rarely is invited to the ball.
41. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875][Oscar Wilde]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/15/theater/theater-review-moliere-s-savages-lose-out-to-today-s.html][1999/02/15/1085377]]) In addition to Mr. Rees (in a role, it should be noted, he was born for) and Ms. Thurman, there are Michael Emerson (*the Oscar Wilde of* ''Gross Indecency'') and Adina Porter (of Suzan-Lori Parks's ''Venus''), playing, respectively, John, the conciliatory best friend of the humanity-hating Alceste, and Ellen, a ''radical post-feminist journalist.''+
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/18/us/behind-the-curtains-of-boston-s-best-neighborhood-a-new-elite.html][1999/02/18/1086058]]) And the strong sense of history prompts obvious parallels: Karen Cord Taylor, editor and publisher of The Beacon Hill Times, pointed out that Charles Bulfinch, the famed architect and developer whose gems, like the State House, crown Beacon Hill, was something like *the Donald J. Trump of* /his day/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5213152][Dan Biederman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/20/nyregion/improvements-small-scale-brooklyn-bid-makes-strides-despite-its-modest-budget.html][1999/02/20/1086460]]) It is this kind of grandiose talk that makes some people kid Mr. Russo about trying to be *the Dan Biederman of* /Brooklyn/ -- a tongue-in-cheek comparison to the Manhattan BID president who got on the wrong side of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for wielding too much power.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/23/us/with-black-support-daley-seems-sure-of-re-election.html][1999/02/23/1087326]]) He called the highly praised head of the city school system, Paul Vallas, a ''*the P. T. Barnum of* /education/'' and vowed to dismiss him if elected.
45. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/25/sports/sports-of-the-times-boss-meets-new-jersey-and-sees-some-light.html][1999/02/25/1087821]]) It's *the Mona Lisa of* sports.''+
46. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7294][Johannes Brahms]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/28/arts/music-russian-originals-de-and-re-edited.html][1999/02/28/1088353]]) They are ''really symphonies for piano and orchestra,'' another predictably asserts, which allows another flattering comparison: ''In this case Tchaikovsky resembles *the Johannes Brahms of* the Piano Concerto No.+
47. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/28/us/war-on-crack-retreats-still-taking-prisoners.html][1999/02/28/1088654]]) The Pyramid  Lower Level Dealers Feel *the Sting of* Laws+
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7302][George Frideric Handel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/05/movies/dance-review-lyrical-joins-sprightly-in-a-formal-pastoral-work.html][1999/03/05/1089922]]) But Mr. Adams, not quite out of his post-Minimalist phase, is not *the Handel of* ''Aureole.''+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603][Andy Warhol]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/14/travel/fresh-perspectives-on-past-and-present-prague.html][1999/03/14/1092103]]) Alfons Mucha was *the Andy Warhol of* /his era/, a decorative artist who defined a style -- Art Nouveau -- and became a media star.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1268][Frédéric Chopin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/14/travel/europe-99-festivals-one-big-anniversary-party.html][1999/03/14/1092125]]) Nevertheless, the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by Grieg, who was once called *the Chopin of* /the North/, opens the festival with Francois-Rene Duchable as soloist and Michael Schondwandt conducting the Collegium Musicum.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188385][Gertrude Stein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/14/arts/a-12-block-glimmer-of-hope-for-new-york.html][1999/03/14/1092170]]) Peter Eisenman of New York is *the Gertrude Stein of* /contemporary architecture/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2741630][David Wells]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/14/sports/a-half-century-in-baseball-and-zimmer-still-breathes-it.html][1999/03/14/1092457]]) He is still booed in Fenway Park for the outcome of that season, many Red Sox faithful forever maintaining that Zimmer should've rested his regulars more, should've trusted the maverick left-hander Bill Lee -- *the David Wells of* /his time/ -- in a crucial game against the Yankees.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/18/us/chronic-heartburn-can-increase-risk-of-esophagus-cancer-study-shows.html][1999/03/18/1093288]]) The condition has been called *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /modern ailments/ because most patients never take it seriously enough to take it to their doctors' attention and treat themselves with over-the-counter antacids, which may not be enough to prevent dangerous changes in the cells that line the esophagus.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/opinion/editorial-observer-is-new-hampshire-ripe-for-governor-whosit.html][1999/03/21/1094215]]) Still, he seemed extremely pleased by the welcome he received in New Hampshire, where he was front-page news in the local papers, one of which referred to him as ''*the Dennis Rodman of* /potential Republican candidates/.''
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q551032][John Wooden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/23/sports/running-in-thin-air-drossin-pushes-herself-higher.html][1999/03/23/1094568]]) Pushing hard is the ethic of Alamosa, a remote mountain city of 12,000 with a thriving runners colony built around the success of Vigil, considered *the John Wooden of* /cross-country running/.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/24/nyregion/public-lives.html][1999/03/24/1094796]]) TOM WOLFE can no longer claim to be *the Susan Lucci of* /the American Academy of Arts and Letters/.
57. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319062][Baal Shem Tov]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/books/deliver-us-from-evil.html][1999/03/28/1095569]]) In her search for answers, Dillard looks to Paul Tillich and Teilhard de Chardin, *the Baal Shem Tov of* the Hasidim and Rabbi Lawrence Kushner of Sudbury, Mass.+
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350844][Christian Lacroix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/magazine/style-malibu-xanadu.html][1999/03/28/1095605]]) He's *the Christian Lacroix of* /decorating/.''
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/28/magazine/a-manifesto-for-the-fast-world.html][1999/03/28/1095607]]) America today is *the Michael Jordan of* /geopolitics/ -- the overwhelmingly dominant system.
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47213][Warren Buffett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/02/business/murdoch-said-to-be-in-deal-with-liberty.html][1999/04/02/1097007]]) One longtime media expert quipped that Mr. Malone saw himself as *the Warren Buffett of* /the media industry/, alluding to Mr. Buffett's strategy of taking large passive positions in other companies.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/04/nyregion/a-reissued-novel-focuses-on-italian-american-women.html][1999/04/04/1097313]]) ''It is *the Madonna of* /Italian-American literature/ in that it shows the transition from the Italian immigrant to American citizen like no other book of its genre.''
62. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174311][Christopher Reeve]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/books/getting-around.html][1999/04/11/1099063]]) If discipline, hard work and a passionate desire to be whole were enough to restore limb function, *the Christopher Reeves of* this world would be up and around in no time.+
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707][Dorothy Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/books/children-s-books-032000.html][1999/04/11/1099068]]) Cuetara is a talented artist who clearly qualifies as *the Dorothy Parker of* /picture book repartee/.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/style/the-leonardo-of-condoms.html][1999/04/11/1099329]]) Dr. Reddy's designs for condoms with built-in bulges are an attempt to rethink the way condoms work, prompting Adam Glickman, the founder of Condomania, a specialty retailer and Internet-based mail-order company, to call the taciturn Indian designer ''*the Leonardo da Vinci of* /the condom/.''
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462481][Mark McGwire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/15/books/books-of-the-times-a-modern-fairy-tale-of-the-dark-north-woods.html][1999/04/15/1100327]]) It's hard to believe that even a Red Sox announcer would refer to the 1998 version of the team's archrivals as ''those pesky New York Yankees,'' which seems a little like calling *the Mark McGwire of* that season a singles hitter.+
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/18/nyregion/l-when-a-rooster-makes-himself-at-home-249610.html][1999/04/18/1101096]]) So maybe the rooster is *the Mike Tyson of* /chickendom/.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919448][Gary Hart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/20/us/bradley-takes-early-party-prize-he-goes-one-on-one-with-gore.html][1999/04/20/1101635]]) Mr. Gore's advisers dismiss Mr. Bradley as *the Gary Hart of* /2000/.
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51537][Mike Nichols]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/25/movies/film-always-asking-what-is-this-really-about.html][1999/04/25/1102562]]) And an overview of his career is a reminder that Mr. Nichols's life and work reflect so indelible a genetic fingerprint that the far bigger surprise would be if *the Mike Nichols of* 23 and the Mike Nichols of 67 didn't seem so much the same.+
69. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51537][Mike Nichols]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/25/movies/film-always-asking-what-is-this-really-about.html][1999/04/25/1102562]]) And an overview of his career is a reminder that Mr. Nichols's life and work reflect so indelible a genetic fingerprint that the far bigger surprise would be if the Mike Nichols of 23 and *the Mike Nichols of* 67 didn't seem so much the same.+
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9200][Paul]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/02/books/sherlock-holmes-s-maker.html][1999/05/02/1104292]]) Stashower reports the reactions of crowd and reporters -- the mixture of reverence, incredulity and ridicule that had become associated in his final years with the writer whom many saw as ''*the St. Paul of* /spiritualism/'' and many more as ''a sad and deluded old man who had squandered his greatness.''
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2D9133DF931A35756C0A96F958260][1999/05/02/1104452]]) If Wynton Marsalis is *the Steven Spielberg of* /the jazz scene/, the alto saxophonist Steve Coleman has a strong claim to being its Stanley Kubrick.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311885][Patrick Henry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/03/opinion/editorial-observer-anybody-want-a-slightly-used-football-team.html][1999/05/03/1104902]]) The Massachusetts House Speaker, Thomas (''No tribute or ransom'') Finneran, who took the heat for driving the Patriots away, now looks like *the Patrick Henry of* /football/, if only because he had the temerity to call Mr. Kraft ''a whiny millionaire looking for a bribe.''
73. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5383][David Bowie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/07/movies/new-video-releases-570281.html][1999/05/07/1105643]]) Todd Haynes's film brilliantly reimagines the heyday of British glam-rock and *the David Bowie of* the early 1970's as a brave new world of electrifying theatricality and sexual possibility.+
74. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5679][Lord Byron]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/books/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-know.html][1999/05/09/1106007]]) It is this manner that perhaps corresponds most closely to *the Byron of* the personal letters and journals and has some claim to be more expressive of the ''real'' Byron, except that there would be no real Byron to express without the dark Romantic side.+
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561852][Willie Mays]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/nyregion/neighborhood-report-bronx-up-close-a-gavel-to-gavel-family.html][1999/05/09/1106292]]) ''I'd like to talk about a man who many refer to as *the Willie Mays of* /the Bronx/.''
76. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/sports/nhl-playoffs-even-the-dominator-can-t-save-em-all.html][1999/05/09/1106438]]) Instead, the lithe little guy who cannot fathom why the chroniclers of sport insist on calling him the masked Mozart of his genre -- ''How can you compare *the Mozart of* music to a hockey player who stops pucks?''+ (W)
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/15/nyregion/queens-finds-its-own-landmarks-one-resident-s-poultry-market-another-s-historic.html][1999/05/15/1107670]]) Then again, this is Queens, *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /boroughs/, preservationally speaking.
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/16/realestate/streetscapes-henry-siegel-14th-street-store-rise-fall-department-store-napoleon.html][1999/05/16/1107816]]) In the book ''Great Merchants of Early New York'' (The Society for the Architecture of the City, 1987) Joseph Devorkin calls him ''*the Napoleon of* /the Department Store industry/.''
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/19/business/the-media-business-advertising-pulp-friction.html][1999/05/19/1108691]]) ''Tropicana is *the Michael Jordan of* /orange juice/,'' said Emanuel Goldman, a global consumer-products analyst for Merrill Lynch.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462481][Mark McGwire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/22/theater/theater-review-prolonging-the-punch-of-a-lone-punch-line.html][1999/05/22/1109265]]) With eye-opening revisionist takes on ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' and Tennessee Williams's ''Kingdom of Earth'' and such comparatively commercial fare as ''As Bees in Honey Drown,'' this young troupe has already established itself as *the Mark McGwire of* /new theater groups/.
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/23/nyregion/unsung-white-wine-with-a-heady-bouquet-making-a-mark.html][1999/05/23/1109543]]) Zind-Humbrecht in Alsace is *the Rembrandt of* /the field/.
82. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/30/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-5-30-99-on-language-we-us.html][1999/05/30/1111197]]) In other scenes, John Gielgud's dying Henry IV carried the banner for *the Shakespeare of* the Old School, opposite the decidedly modern Prince Hal of Keith Baxter, who was unmindful of the melodies of the verse.+
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/04/world/man-in-the-news-an-intellectual-guerrilla-thabo-mbeki.html][1999/06/04/1112428]]) If Nelson Mandela is *the George Washington of* /this new democracy/, the kind of giant among men who turns down offers to be king, then Mr. Mbeki is its John Adams.+ (D)
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/04/world/man-in-the-news-an-intellectual-guerrilla-thabo-mbeki.html][1999/06/04/1112556]]) If Nelson Mandela is *the George Washington of* /this new democracy/, the kind of giant among men who turns down offers to be king, then Mr. Mbeki is its John Adams.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2599][Paul McCartney]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/11/movies/pop-review-challenges-and-magic-in-a-reunion-of-a-duo.html][1999/06/11/1114314]]) Always *the McCartney of* /the group/, Mr. McLennan gracefully avoids that more famous tunesmith's weakness for banality by turning his sugar sharp without warning, as when a darkening chord progression turned the phrase ''I'm gonna make you happy'' into a threat.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128799][Ricky Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/13/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-6-13-99-encounter-playing-with-firearms.html][1999/06/13/1114740]]) Clancy is *the Ricky Martin of* /the United States military/, and he returns the adulation.
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434][Ernest Hemingway]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/14/theater/theater-review-just-a-couple-unaware-the-world-is-watching.html][1999/06/14/1115269]]) Like *the Hemingway of* decades ago you, too, may end up feeling differently about Stein and Toklas, though surely without the same frisson of disgust.+
88. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213512][Bill Cosby]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/14/business/where-have-television-s-big-stars-gone-niche-viewers-increase-channels-dim.html][1999/06/14/1115282]]) And yet there does not appear in the networks' current roster to be a host of likely successors to Mr. Seinfeld, who left his NBC comedy last season, and Mr. Allen, who wrapped up his hit comedy, ''Home Improvement,'' last month for the ABC unit of Walt Disney -- and no one in the same universe of appeal as icons like Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Mary Tyler Moore and *the Bill Cosby of* the 1980's (though the Bill Cosby of today remains perhaps the biggest name still working in prime time).+
89. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213512][Bill Cosby]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/14/business/where-have-television-s-big-stars-gone-niche-viewers-increase-channels-dim.html][1999/06/14/1115282]]) And yet there does not appear in the networks' current roster to be a host of likely successors to Mr. Seinfeld, who left his NBC comedy last season, and Mr. Allen, who wrapped up his hit comedy, ''Home Improvement,'' last month for the ABC unit of Walt Disney -- and no one in the same universe of appeal as icons like Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Mary Tyler Moore and the Bill Cosby of the 1980's (though *the Bill Cosby of* today remains perhaps the biggest name still working in prime time).+
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19837][Steve Jobs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/magazine/surfing-on-the-slippery-skin-of-a-bubble.html][1999/06/20/1116750]]) Mark Hernandez doesn't want to be *the Steve Jobs of* /the next century/.
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9079904][Steve Jurvetson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/magazine/surfing-on-the-slippery-skin-of-a-bubble.html][1999/06/20/1116750]]) He wants to be *the Steve Jurvetson of* /lower Manhattan/.
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211731][Timothy Leary]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-6-20-99-the-ipo-boomers.html][1999/06/20/1116779]]) The ubiquitous hedge-fund manager Jim Cramer, *the Timothy Leary of* /the hour/, would later draw a line that transcended generation: ''In my business, there are two kinds of people, those who make money and those who critique those who make money.''
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189240][Kevin Garnett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/sports/on-pro-basketball-a-no-frills-guy-who-s-beyond-his-years.html][1999/06/20/1117163]]) Simply, the chance to be *the Kevin Garnett of* today outweighs the patience and reward of being the Duncan of tomorrow.+
94. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189240][Kevin Garnett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/sports/on-pro-basketball-duncan-a-no-frills-guy-who-s-beyond-his-years.html][1999/06/20/1117307]]) Simply, the chance to be *the Kevin Garnett of* today outweighs the patience and reward of being the Duncan of tomorrow.+
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212762][Burt Bacharach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/25/movies/queens-is-where-the-world-s-music-comes-together.html][1999/06/25/1118301]]) The lineup is intended to draw crowds from inside and outside Latin New York, with crossover bands like Inti Illimani of Chile and Noche Flamenco of Spain, as well as Armando Manzanero, the crooning balladeer regarded as *the Burt Bacharach of* /Mexico/.
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/27/nyregion/neighborhood-report-upper-west-side-buzz-cocktails-and-carrots.html][1999/06/27/1118924]]) Another, Diana Lemieux, described her as ''*the Mother Teresa of* /quadrupeds/,'' adding, ''She makes feral cats sweet.''
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462925][Randy Moss]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/27/sports/nba-finals-the-cream-of-the-college-crop.html][1999/06/27/1119027]]) If not, Odom will become *the Randy Moss of* /the N.B.A./, a guy with a lot of question marks who may pay huge dividends.
98. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334029][Bunker Hill]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/03/opinion/journal-summer-of-matthew-shepard.html][1999/07/03/1120493]]) That afternoon, Bill Clinton, having already declared June to be ''Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,'' took the stage of Broadway's ''Iceman Cometh'' to salute the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, *the Bunker Hill of* the modern gay civil rights movement.+
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5582][Vincent van Gogh]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/arts/music-a-fragile-mind-bent-in-a-psychedelic-era.html][1999/07/04/1120682]]) But I guarantee you, he will become *the Van Gogh of* /the 60's/.
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/theater/theater-a-procession-of-elusive-images-from-the-merlin-of-surreal-form.html][1999/07/04/1120695]]) A model for this blending of formalism and freedom is the work of George Balanchine, whom Mr. Wilson calls ''*the Mozart of* /the 20th century/.''
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236540][Rose Kennedy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/04/nyregion/long-island-journal-in-glen-cove-matriarch-of-a-political-family.html][1999/07/04/1120723]]) But in Glen Cove, a city where the name Suozzi has a Kennedyesque aura, Mrs. Suozzi is the quiet matriarch, *the Rose Kennedy of* /a political dynasty with a small-town cachet/.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q718256][Forbes Burnham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/11/books/the-tree-that-knew-too-much.html][1999/07/11/1122398]]) The headmaster is described as *the Forbes Burnham of* ''/our schoolworld/,'' where the Government ordered children to learn agricultural skills and work in the fields.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462481][Mark McGwire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/12/sports/baseball-a-maestro-of-the-mound-working-on-a-symphony.html][1999/07/12/1122958]]) But even though Pedro Martinez is slight enough to be a tattoo on the biceps of Mark McGwire, he is *the Mark McGwire of* /pitchers in 1999/.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/15/nyregion/for-hives-honey-new-york-city-rooftop-beekeepers-defy-law-get-that-sweet-central.html][1999/07/15/1123603]]) Mr. Graves has become *the Johnny Appleseed of* /New York beedom/.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150851][Colin Powell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/18/books/my-not-so-brilliant-career.html][1999/07/18/1124061]]) As for Jem, he jumps ship early to enter the service of the war hero Gen. George Monk, *the Colin Powell of* /his day/ in that he might have assumed power but didn't.
106. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35155][Thomas Pynchon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/18/books/hip-free-and-middle-aged.html][1999/07/18/1124065]]) Moving on, there is the 60's of the war (Tim O'Brien) and the 60's of hippie bliss, sort of (Tom Robbins and *the Thomas Pynchon of* ''Vineland'').+
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453251][Horatio Alger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/20/business/charles-roman-the-brains-behind-the-brawn-dies-at-92.html][1999/07/20/1124759]]) Mr. Atlas has been called *the Horatio Alger of* /the human body/.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6660303][Liz Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/25/nyregion/long-island-journal-live-on-the-web-glimpses-of-east-hampton.html][1999/07/25/1125783]]) Mr. Gaines, the best-selling author of ''Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons,'' is the Hamptons insider of the moment, and although the comparison makes him cringe, *the Liz Smith of* /the rolling dunes/.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1631][Édith Piaf]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/25/nyregion/party-in-westport-in-the-french-style-kiss-kiss-for-art.html][1999/07/25/1125801]]) The pitch of the party suddenly went up: Diane Dufresne (''*the Edith Piaf of* /all the French community/,'' Mr. Pelletier said) had arrived.
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1400307][Mark Helprin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/27/books/books-of-the-times-hunting-the-hunter-at-stalingrad.html][1999/07/27/1126355]]) One can only imagine what a John le Carre would have done with the promising scheme that Mr. Robbins has invented, or perhaps *the Mark Helprin of* ''A Soldier of the Great War.''+
111. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223790][Joseph Fiennes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/29/books/the-famous-fiennes-and-their-mother-s-blood-ties.html][1999/07/29/1126745]]) A serial reading by Sophie, Ralph and Joseph from ''Blood Ties'' and ''On Pilgrimage'' on Tuesday night at New School University in Greenwich Village quickly filled all 540 seats, shutting out more than a hundred other fans clamoring for a live encounter with the Ralph Fiennes of Broadway's ''Hamlet'' and such popular films as ''The English Patient,'' ''Oscar and Lucinda,'' ''Schindler's List'' and ''Quiz Show,'' and *the Joseph Fiennes of* ''Shakespeare in Love, ''Elizabeth'' and ''Stealing Beauty.''+
112. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28493][Ralph Fiennes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/29/books/the-famous-fiennes-and-their-mother-s-blood-ties.html][1999/07/29/1126745]]) A serial reading by Sophie, Ralph and Joseph from ''Blood Ties'' and ''On Pilgrimage'' on Tuesday night at New School University in Greenwich Village quickly filled all 540 seats, shutting out more than a hundred other fans clamoring for a live encounter with *the Ralph Fiennes of* Broadway's ''Hamlet'' and such popular films as ''The English Patient,'' ''Oscar and Lucinda,'' ''Schindler's List'' and ''Quiz Show,'' and the Joseph Fiennes of ''Shakespeare in Love, ''Elizabeth'' and ''Stealing Beauty.''+
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2289535][Rocky Balboa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/01/sports/backtalk-theo-fleury-little-big-man.html][1999/08/01/1127584]]) Theo Fleury is *the Rocky of* /hockey/.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/01/business/private-sector-finally-a-smooth-trip.html][1999/08/01/1127627]]) As *the Mikhail Gorbachev of* /American Airlines/, after the long, sometimes bare-knuckled rule of Robert L. Crandall as chief executive, Donald J. Carty is finding that glasnost can lead to chaos (labor unrest, late flights, service with a snarl).
115. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331663][Rick Reed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/03/sports/baseball-reed-is-in-top-form-as-mets-gain-a-share-of-first-place.html][1999/08/03/1128105]]) Rick Reed, meanwhile, looked like *the Rick Reed of* the last two seasons -- and very little like the slumping right-hander he has been for most of this year.+
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/07/world/beijing-journal-what-crisis-a-taiwan-temptress-seduces-china.html][1999/08/07/1128838]]) Ah-Mei, 27, is becoming *the Madonna of* /China/.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707][Dorothy Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/09/arts/pop-review-girl-power-takes-on-rock-s-challenges.html][1999/08/09/1129462]]) Ms. Mann is shaping up to be *the Dorothy Parker of* /adult pop/, although her jiltings have come from the music industry, not callous lovers.
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8023][Nelson Mandela]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/10/world/champion-of-free-kosovo-now-urges-moderation.html][1999/08/10/1129636]]) Adem Demaci, often called *the Nelson Mandela of* /Kosovo/, has found some of the same serenity and moderation, urging his fellow Albanians to use their sudden gift of freedom to build a civilized society here.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16397][Bruce Lee]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/11/theater/critic-s-notebook-sifting-a-cultural-hero-s-life-to-define-puerto-ricans.html][1999/08/11/1129874]]) Even though he had tragedies every day in his life, he'd get up on stage and be *the Bruce Lee of* /our culture/.''
120. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7902373][Utah Jazz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/12/us/tornado-damages-downtown-salt-lake-city-1-is-killed-and-many-are-hurt.html][1999/08/12/1130068]]) While the Capitol was not damaged, other buildings were, including the Delta Center, which is home to *the Utah Jazz of* the National Basketball Association, and the Wyndham Hotel, where windows were blown out and guests were evacuated.+
121. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/13/arts/art-review-the-computer-as-inspiration-and-binder.html][1999/08/13/1130153]]) ''A Ship Called Jesus'' (1991) -- the title refers to *the Jesus of* Lubeck, a slave ship sent to the New World by Elizabeth I of England -- concentrates on religion, with crucifixes, church windows and Bible passages punctuated by shots of undulating water.+
122. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/13/opinion/on-my-mind-a-certain-contagion.html][1999/08/13/1130191]]) His name is Tenzin Gyatso and he is *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet, visiting and teaching in New York City for a few days.+
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2522402][Harry Winston]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/15/style/guru-jacob-arabo-quarry-of-choice-for-rappers-rocks.html][1999/08/15/1130766]]) For those not in the know, Jacob -- Jacob Arabo, to be precise -- is *the Harry Winston of* /the hip-hop world/, the jeweler who gives most of today's leading rappers their shine.
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/20/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-123102.html][1999/08/20/1131800]]) This English singer with a fetchingly nostalgic pseudonym is a member of the Headcoatees, the raucous girl group organized by *the Picasso of* /garage rock/, Billy Childish.
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434669][Phyllis Schlafly]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/20/world/in-india-s-power-struggle-2-women-collide-head-on.html][1999/08/20/1131849]]) ''Sushma is *the Phyllis Schlafly of* /India/,'' remarked Rajiv Desai, who has created the advertising for Mrs. Gandhi's campaign.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79904][J. D. Salinger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/style/a-night-out-with-wes-anderson-dissecting-films-and-serial-killers.html][1999/08/22/1132391]]) ''He's *the J. D. Salinger of* /film/,'' Mr. Fancher said of Mr. Anderson, 30, whose first film, ''Bottle Rocket,'' propelled him to indie-film cult status.
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/22/sports/backtalk-time-for-sports-heroes-to-start-acting-in-a-heroic-way.html][1999/08/22/1132492]]) Two years ago, we were told that Babe Ruth was *the Tiger Woods of* /his time/, that golf would save the developing world, that Tiger would change sports marketing and race relations.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/26/nyregion/open-house-for-open-fans-qualifiers-mean-great-seats-for-tennis-die-hards.html][1999/08/26/1133298]]) Other players getting attention this year include Max Mirnyi of Belarus, who took home the mixed-doubles trophy with Serena Williams at Wimbledon and the Open last year, and Xavier Malisse, a Belgian called *the Dennis Rodman of* /tennis/ because he dyed his hair different colors for each round of a tournament.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1948511][Morris Levy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/29/magazine/style-ricky-who.html][1999/08/29/1133807]]) At one point Shustek described Mercado to me as ''*the Morris Levy of* /the Latin world/.''
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/29/business/the-race-to-cash-in-on-the-genetic-code.html][1999/08/29/1134085]]) ''They say I'm going to be *the Bill Gates of* /biology/; I'm not sure that's meant to be flattering,'' he said.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/opinion/foreign-affairs-the-future-is-made-in.html][1999/09/05/1135691]]) ''The immediate impact would be a shortage of computer products and prices would go up instead of down,'' said Stanley Shih, *the Bill Gates of* /Taiwan/ and the chairman of Acer Group.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231417][Barbara Walters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/10/nyregion/public-lives.html][1999/09/10/1136733]]) ''I've been called the most famous American in China,'' said Miss Kan, who is an American citizen, ''but when I was in television there, people used to call me *the Barbara Walters of* /China/.
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/11/opinion/journal-save-us-from-our-saviors.html][1999/09/11/1136878]]) He has been *the P. T. Barnum of* /public shows of faith/ -- from the '92 campaign, in which he campaigned in full preaching mode in black churches, to his Monica mea culpa of a year ago this week, when he worked in allusions to both the New Testament and the Yom Kippur liturgy while confessing his sins at an annual Washington prayer breakfast.
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603][Andy Warhol]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/magazine/a-man-of-many-women.html][1999/09/12/1137062]]) Says Henny Garfunkel, a New York photographer and friend of Almodovar's, ''He's *the Andy Warhol of* /Spain/.''
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5686][Charles Dickens]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/arts/the-annotated-listings-television-radio.html][1999/09/12/1137115]]) SNOOPS  A new drama from David E. Kelley, who is rapidly becoming *the Dickens of* /television/ (although he's not paid by the film frame -- yet).
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125121][Aretha Franklin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/nyregion/star-in-the-making-doesn-t-live-like-one.html][1999/09/12/1137131]]) She's *the Aretha Franklin of* /the next millennium/.''
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206466][Mahalia Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/nyregion/star-in-the-making-doesn-t-live-like-one.html][1999/09/12/1137131]]) If she had pursued music, she said, she thought she might become ''*the Mahalia Jackson of* /the family/,'' traveling from church to church singing gospel.
138. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7758][Charles X of France]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/16/arts/opera-review-in-long-lost-rossini-tributes-to-a-french-king.html][1999/09/16/1138133]]) As Rossini's last opera in Italian, it holds a pivotal place in his works list; yet it was also the very definition of an occasional work, meant to celebrate a specific public event, the coronation of *the Charles X of* France in 1825.+
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380429][Tony Robbins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/16/sports/football-vols-lewis-is-back-and-ready-for-gators.html][1999/09/16/1138287]]) In his last 200 pass attempts, he has thrown only two interceptions and has become *the Tony Robbins of* /his team's success-breeds-success mantra/, which they vow will carry them to another championship.
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31073][Walter Cronkite]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/17/nyregion/gaze-deeply-into-my-eye-a-public-fixated-on-the-weather-is-mesmerized-by-floyd.html][1999/09/17/1138491]]) He has become known in some circles as *the Walter Cronkite of* /weather/.
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192236][Thomas Becket]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/19/magazine/the-stones-of-poland-s-soul.html][1999/09/19/1138691]]) Stanislaus, described as *the Thomas Becket of* /Poland/, was assassinated by the King, and then drawn and quartered.
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616][Marilyn Monroe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/22/arts/tahia-carioca-79-dies-a-renowned-belly-dancer.html][1999/09/22/1139639]]) Tahia Carioca, the Egyptian belly dancer often called *the Marilyn Monroe of* /the Arab world/, died of a heart attack in a Cairo hospital on Monday.
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104266][Mel Brooks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/nyregion/time-s-awasting-but-he-swears-it-s-not-his.html][1999/09/26/1140478]]) It takes a humble man, or at least a Nobel Prize winner like Leon Lederman, nicknamed ''*the Mel Brooks of* /the physics world/,'' to admit to a prodigious waste of time and money.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367566][Yogi Berra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/26/nyregion/the-feel-the-smell-the-art-of-working-with-wood.html][1999/09/26/1140488]]) Sometimes sounding like *the Yogi Berra of* /shoji making/, Mr. Odate said that as much as 40 percent of woodworking could be learned intellectually, by reading.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131545][Harry Houdini]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/01/business/media-business-advertising-real-virtual-you-call-it-digital-sleight-hand-can-put.html][1999/10/01/1141810]]) ''Virtual advertising,'' as this trickery is known, is ''*the Harry Houdini of* /the media business/,'' said David Verklin, chief executive at Carat North America in New York, which buys commercial time and ad space for marketers.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721948][Nolan Ryan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/01/sports/sports-of-the-times-this-team-may-watch-from-stands.html][1999/10/01/1141916]]) In the last two years, Valentine has shown faith in Yoshii, 34, who did not come with great hyperbole, like the Yankee owner calling Hideki Irabu *the Nolan Ryan of* /Japan/.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16409][Tristan Tzara]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/03/arts/music-crossing-music-s-borders-search-identity-downtown-reach-for-ethnicity.html][1999/10/03/1142247]]) Mr. Lindsay has performed with Tom Ze, *the Tristan Tzara of* /Brazilian Tropicalia/, and Vovo, the leader of the black nationalist carnival band Ile Aiye; Mr. Lindsay has also produced recordings by Caetano Veloso, Carlinhos Brown and Marisa Monte.
148. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209662][Lucille Ball]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/08/movies/theater-review-musical-elixir-afoot.html][1999/10/08/1143573]]) Ms. Ziemba projects a madcap self-delight that brings to mind *the Lucille Ball of* ''I Love Lucy'' and implicitly suggests just how subversive the zany sitcom heroines of that repressed era were.+
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511][Richard Wagner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/10/magazine/the-importance-of-matthew-barney.html][1999/10/10/1143997]]) People began referring to him as *the Wagner of* /contemporary art/ because, like Wagner, Barney operated in a mythological language that seemed willfully irrational, and he had a plan for a cycle of works (the five ''Cremaster'' films) that would take years to complete.
150. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/12/us/elite-college-s-president-takes-to-the-road-to-attract-the-disadvantaged.html][1999/10/12/1144695]]) Called *the Jackie Robinson of* /higher education/ when she became the first black woman to head a top-tier college or university in 1995, Dr. Simmons has embarked upon what she calls a ''personal crusade'' to bring disadvantaged students to her campus and similar institutions nationwide.
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441][Emily Dickinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/17/nyregion/a-link-to-the-quiet-little-life-of-st-therese.html][1999/10/17/1145734]]) The relics of St. Therese of Lisieux, *the Emily Dickinson of* /Roman Catholic sainthood/, arrived yesterday at Our Lady of the Scapular Church on East 28th Street to begin a four-day stay in Manhattan.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/18/business/media-maker-of-on-screen-guide-for-tv-has-eye-on-future.html][1999/10/18/1146269]]) Now he is vying to become *the Bill Gates of* /television/.
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1067][Dante Alighieri]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/22/movies/film-review-a-scorsese-devil-hunt.html][1999/10/22/1147181]]) Though his latest film explores one more urban inferno and colorfully reaffirms Mr. Scorsese's role as *the Dante of* /the Cinema/, creating its air of nocturnal torment took some doing.
154. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/realestate/streetscapes-appellate-division-25th-street-madison-avenue-milky-white.html][1999/10/24/1147586]]) Karl Bitter's ''Peace'' is the central grouping on the balustrade by Madison Square; ''Justice'' by Daniel Chester French, sculptor of *the Lincoln of* the Lincoln Memorial, is the central grouping on 25th Street.+
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313013][Brian Wilson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/arts/pop-that-s-produced-alone-at-home-gets-personal.html][1999/10/24/1147595]]) Mr. Cornog is *the Brian Wilson of* /home recording/.
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24829][Orson Welles]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/arts/film-the-fun-and-games-of-living-a-virtual-life.html][1999/10/24/1147597]]) Such clips as the Beastie Boys's ''Sabotage,'' in which the Beasties dress up as cops from a 70's television show, and Weezer's ''Buddy Holly,'' in which the band turns up in a ''Happy Days'' episode, prompted one fan writing on the movie Web site Ain't It Cool News to call him the ''*the Orson Welles of* /music videos/.''
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137042][Nat King Cole]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/style/a-night-out-with-the-buena-vista-social-club-noche-de-la-habana-wherever-they-go.html][1999/10/24/1147790]]) At 72, the silky-voiced Mr. Ferrer -- dubbed *the Nat King Cole of* /Cuba/ -- looked boyish in his trademark tan-colored Kangol cap and canvas K-Swiss sneakers.
158. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22109815][Maria Teresa Basso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/realestate/residential-sales.html][1999/10/24/1147794]]) Barry White, *the Basso of* Love, Signs as Fans Sigh+
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49080][Isaak Babel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/24/books/the-18-year-itch.html][1999/10/24/1148009]]) MORE than a decade has passed since a friend called me to rave about the work of one of her graduate students, a recent immigrant from China who wrote in English and who was, my friend said, *the Isaac Babel of* /the Chinese Army/.
160. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1189386][Barry Buchanan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/opinion/public-interests-standing-pat.html][1999/10/26/1148373]]) One minute *the Buchanan of* yore was howling about the New World Order, and the next he was just like any other slightly flummoxed after-dinner speaker, betrayed by bad audio-visual aids.+
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511][Richard Wagner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/31/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-10-31-99-encounter-a-joy-ride-with-ralph-nader.html][1999/10/31/1149440]]) It is *the Richard Wagner of* /S.U.V.'s/.
162. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333421][The Ultimate Warrior]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/31/sports/1999-2000-nba-preview-the-west-is-still-the-best.html][1999/10/31/1149461]]) The Philosopher and *the Warrior of* Suffrage+
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/04/nyregion/the-1999-elections-hempstead-democrat-is-elected-under-voting-method-she-fought.html][1999/11/04/1150603]]) Dorothy Goosby, a 61-year-old nursing home dietitian and high school chemistry teacher, is described by her supporters as ''*the Rosa Parks of* /Long Island/'' for her long effort to end the at-large system of electing the Town Board, a process she says has kept black people off.
164. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/07/movies/film-an-actor-and-a-director-whose-bond-was-well-mad.html][1999/11/07/1151231]]) This man is not merely quoting Scripture; he is also speaking as Jesus Christ himself: ''I am not *the Jesus of* the official Church, whom the police, bankers, judges, hangmen, officers, church bosses, politicians and other powerful people tolerate.+
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260683][Grandma Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/07/nyregion/in-person-out-of-leonia-a-first-novel.html][1999/11/07/1151271]]) In a recent interview here, Ms. Cirino, earnest yet self-effacing, joked that at the age of 58 she is ''*the Grandma Moses of* /first novelists/.''
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9554][Martin Luther]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/07/weekinreview/the-world-order-in-the-court-a-revolution-is-on-trial.html][1999/11/07/1151463]]) Not for nothing has Mr. Nouri, 50, been called *the Martin Luther of* /Iran/.
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168728][Robert Frost]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/12/opinion/public-interests-george-w-helmsman.html][1999/11/12/1152666]]) Mr. Bush, *the Robert Frost of* /political name recognition/, won the first polls easily, and after that things just started snowballing.
168. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7574608][Special K]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/12/sports/sports-of-the-times-krzyzewski-s-logic-runs-into-realities.html][1999/11/12/1152753]]) As Krzyzewski signed what most observers rated the country's best recruiting class, the only irreversable damage from the defections would seem to be the coach's reputation as *the Special K of* the college game.+
169. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107082][Mary Harris Jones]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/14/us/the-most-innovative-figure-in-silicon-valley-maybe-this-labor-organizer.html][1999/11/14/1153412]]) And in a movement where blue jeans are favored, she wears pumps and gold bracelets, although her Ann Taylor look has not stopped her from earning the nickname *the Mother Jones of* /Silicon Valley/.
170. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37577][John Calvin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/15/nyregion/political-memo-mayor-s-harsh-style-despite-critics-no-plans-to-change.html][1999/11/15/1153640]]) As ever, he is the classroom know-it-all, the professional scold, *the John Calvin of* /city government/, so much so that caricaturists routinely portray him in an apoplectic state.
171. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11862397][Herman Badillo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/21/magazine/l-a-minority-of-one-464341.html][1999/11/21/1154954]]) I am not ashamed to have worked for *the Herman Badillo of* 1973, but only because I believe that the man I knew back then would be ashamed of his 1999 self.+
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/books/blue-period.html][1999/11/28/1156565]]) No wonder the British trade paper Film Weekly called him ''*the Hitler of* /Hollywood/.''
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42786][Audrey Hepburn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-504319.html][1999/11/28/1156590]]) The commentator Dick Button called her ''*the Audrey Hepburn of* /skating/.''
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/arts/music-keith-jarrett-meditates-on-mortality.html][1999/11/28/1156627]]) Mr. Jarrett, *the Proust of* /jazz/, had chronic fatigue syndrome recently, and for a while the Internet was bubbling with rumors of his imminent demise that gained credence after he canceled several concerts.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/weekinreview/the-world-a-middle-east-choice-peace-or-democracy.html][1999/11/28/1156860]]) ''He doesn't want to be *the Gorbachev of* /Syria/.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q410][Carl Sagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/science/scientist-work-mark-j-plotkin-romance-with-rain-forest-its-elusive-miracles.html][1999/11/30/1157194]]) Profile writers have compared him to Indiana Jones, and quoted sympathetic colleagues who called Dr. Plotkin *the Carl Sagan of* /the rain forest/.
177. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q183528][Philip Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/05/books/quicker-than-st-john-the-divine.html][1999/12/05/1158279]]) Macaulay introduces an architect, William of Planz, *the Philip Johnson of* /his day/, who developed the original design.
178. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/05/arts/a-surrealist-composer-comes-to-the-rescue-of-modernism.html][1999/12/05/1158350]]) But of course it is only *the Beethoven of* the dynamic middle period -- the most influential of the Beethovens -- that Mr. Ades is ''against.''+
179. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/05/arts/art-architecture-on-trial-at-the-met-the-art-of-the-connoisseur.html][1999/12/05/1158353]]) And how does the enigmatic ''Riverbank,'' which was dubbed by its former owner, Mr. Wang, as ''*the Mona Lisa of* Chinese painting,'' fit into all of this?+
180. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/05/sports/the-road-to-sydney-olympic-profile-basketball-returning-for-a-last-hurrah.html][1999/12/05/1158663]]) Or when, during a heated practice, she's trying to outfox youngsters like Chamique Holdsclaw, the player she's pegged as the star for the new millennium and to whom she's prepared to bequeath her moniker as *the Michael Jordan of* /women's ball/.
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44301][Jim Morrison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/09/books/arts-abroad-brazil-wizard-makes-books-disappear-from-stores.html][1999/12/09/1159451]]) Here in his homeland Mr. Coelho first came to attention in the early 1970's not as a novelist but as a pop music lyricist, writing more than 70 songs with the rock star Raul Seixas, described by Mr. Coelho as ''*the Jim Morrison of* /Brazil/.''
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225][Bruce Springsteen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/11/world/panama-feels-slighted-when-albright-cancels-date-at-canal.html][1999/12/11/1159942]]) Madeleine Albright is *the Bruce Springsteen of* /foreign affairs/.
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2071][David Lynch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/12/nyregion/folk-music-becomes-presence-to-contend-with.html][1999/12/12/1160206]]) One of the Island's more iconoclastic performers, James Yarsky performs emotionally charged, raging songs in highly theatrical stage performances that led one writer too call him *the David Lynch of* /folk music/.
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160534][Jack Kerouac]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/17/movies/hits-live-albums-and-compilations-musical-merry-making-from-raunchy-to-reverent-937720.html][1999/12/17/1161636]]) W. Axl Rose is *the Jack Kerouac of* /hard rock/, embodying the myth of masculinity in all its beauty and horror.
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11975][Britney Spears]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/19/arts/music-crossing-back-to-good-ol-country.html][1999/12/19/1161983]]) From the cavalcade of come hither, ''Teen Beats'' photos to the completely predictable array of blockbuster classics like ''Crazy,'' 'Your Cheatin' Heart'' and ''Lovesick Blues,'' this album feels like an attempt to become *the Britney Spears of* /country/.
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37103][Florence Nightingale]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/26/movies/1999-the-year-in-review-film-a-taste-for-the-eccentric-marginal-and-dangerous.html][1999/12/26/1163753]]) He sees himself as a humanitarian, *the Florence Nightingale of* /Death Row/, the man who took the ouch out of the death penalty.
187. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/26/style/10-parties-that-shook-the-century.html][1999/12/26/1163871]]) It was given by her husband of the time, Michael Todd, *the P. T. Barnum of* /Hollywood/, and the event arguably ushered in the modern Hollywood era.
188. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4283152][John Rocker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-john-rocker-s-persona-and-corporate-synergy.html][1999/12/26/1163943]]) ''Something seems to have consumed him, for *the John Rocker of* late 1999 doesn't seem to be the same one of a year earlier.''+
189. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/27/world/london-journal-rounding-up-a-bbc-audience-with-sheep-dogs.html][1999/12/27/1164179]]) They are people of such retiring natures that when one admits to being ''quietly confident'' about the competition, he comes across as *the Donald Trump of* /the sheep-dog world/.

** 2000
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/02/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-gene-sarazen-b-1902-payne-stewart-b-1957-drive-he-said.html][2000/01/02/1165313]]) He was *the Tiger Woods of* /his time/ -- which is to say, Tiger Woods without all the handlers.
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3772][Quentin Tarantino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/02/movies/film-a-shakespeare-tale-whose-time-has-come.html][2000/01/02/1165360]]) Webster was *the Quentin Tarantino of* /his age/, but he didn't invent this mixed style of drama.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380429][Tony Robbins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/07/movies/critic-s-notebook-films-glow-independently.html][2000/01/07/1166580]]) PLUSES: Tom Cruise as *the Tony Robbins of* /misogynistic sex/, in another role in which his phony, too-bright smiles match his character.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214800][Calvin Klein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/08/arts/robert-mcg-thomas-60-chronicler-of-unsung-lives.html][2000/01/08/1166834]]) Among them were  Howard C. Fox, ''the Chicago clothier and sometime big-band trumpeter who claimed credit for creating and naming the zoot suit with the reet pleat, the reave sleeve, the ripe  stripe, the stuff cuff and the drape shape that was the stage rage during the boogie-woogie rhyme time of the early 1940's,'' and Russell Colley, a mechanical engineer who became ''*the Calvin Klein of* /space/'' and was known to a generation of astronauts as the ''father of the space suit.''
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/09/books/theocracy-in-the-desert.html][2000/01/09/1166971]]) He can be viewed as *the Henry Ford of* /religion/, with a uniquely American knack for enterprise and innovation, or a Jim Jones figure from the dark edge of the frontier, ready to take his followers off a cliff with him.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173180][Dave Douglas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/13/arts/the-pop-life-favorite-cd-s-you-nearly-missed.html][2000/01/13/1168186]]) But there's a resourcefulness here: they use cheap electronics well, they mine a lot of feeling from single vamps, and the disciplined, versatile cornetist Rob Mazurek may yet become *the Dave Douglas of* /the Midwest/.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/15/nyregion/artery-blocked-letterman-has-heart-bypass-surgery.html][2000/01/15/1168688]]) He's *the Cal Ripken of* /TV/,'' said Mr. Rubenstein, referring to the Baltimore Orioles shortstop with the stellar attendance record.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452469][Dorothea Dix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/magazine/the-global-willowbrook.html][2000/01/16/1168831]]) Guiding the international entourage that chilly fall morning was Virginia Gonzalez, *the Dorothea Dix of* /Mexico/, that nation's leading advocate for the mentally ill and the country's No.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/business/business-at-the-aol-time-warner-wedding-visions-of-better-and-worse.html][2000/01/16/1169086]]) WHEN the Godzilla of the Internet decides to wed *the King Kong of* /content/, it is a natural time for the other denizens of the jungle to wonder what the future will hold for the colossal couple and the world they inhabit.
10. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179497][Oliver Stone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/18/movies/critic-s-notebook-we-happy-many-playing-fast-and-loose-with-history.html][2000/01/18/1169508]]) Is there no ethical difference between the Shakespeare of Richard III and, say, *the Oliver Stone of* ''J.+
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/18/movies/critic-s-notebook-we-happy-many-playing-fast-and-loose-with-history.html][2000/01/18/1169508]]) Is there no ethical difference between *the Shakespeare of* Richard III and, say, the Oliver Stone of ''J.+
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/19/books/the-curious-incident-of-the-sleuth-in-the-meantime.html][2000/01/19/1169686]]) Conan Doyle persevered in his homicide, inventing *the Napoleon of* /crime/, Moriarity, who in ''The Final Problem'' plunges with Holmes into the seething waters of Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168763][Liv Tyler]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/21/movies/theater-review-where-women-are-merry-and-men-hide-in-closets.html][2000/01/21/1170158]]) Meanwhile, almost every other man in town wants to marry young Anne Page, who is apparently *the Liv Tyler of* /14th-century Windsor/.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/23/style/literary-pulse-the-whole-kitsch-and-caboodle-439339.html][2000/01/23/1170707]]) Velvet paintings may be *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the art world/, but Leeteg, who died in 1953, was known as the American Gauguin.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51516][John Madden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/23/sports/plus-tv-sports-nascar-waltrip-joins-fox-s-broadcasting-team.html][2000/01/23/1170962]]) He has the je ne sais quoi that will make him *the John Madden of* /racing/, said David Hill, chairman of the Fox Sports Television Group.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2263][Tom Hanks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/24/movies/american-beauty-wins-3-golden-globe-awards.html][2000/01/24/1171146]]) ''I am *the Tom Hanks of* /the Golden Globes/.''
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7803927][Tim McCarver]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/30/magazine/jack-nicholson-said-johnny-mac-don-t-ever-change.html][2000/01/30/1172368]]) He has since established himself as *the Tim McCarver of* /tennis/, the undisputed master of his craft.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195367][Dan Marino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/31/business/the-markets-market-place-can-barry-diller-return-to-the-limelight.html][2000/01/31/1172834]]) Otherwise he runs the risk of being remembered as *the Dan Marino of* /the media business/, a great player who was unable to win the biggest prize in his chosen game.
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/31/sports/boxing-tyson-gets-back-to-the-business-that-he-knows-best.html][2000/01/31/1172853]]) But before anybody pronounces him *the Tyson of* old, Tyson himself knows the difference.+
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93957][Gary Cooper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/06/movies/film-celebrating-la-difference-and-three-objects-of-desire.html][2000/02/06/1174173]]) Ms. Bonnaire's greatest physical attribute is her walk, which is brisk and androgynously sexy -- she's *the Gary Cooper of* /French actresses/ -- but what gives her a star's allure is her ability to hold her emotions suggestively in reserve.
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2001][Stanley Kubrick]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/09/dining/restaurants-bouley-in-his-klimt-period.html][2000/02/09/1175017]]) He is *the Stanley Kubrick of* /New York chefs/ -- difficult to get a read on, by most accounts difficult to deal with, but always pointed in a direction that feels as though it will lead straight to the next big thing.
22. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/10/garden/disguising-the-sting-of-higher-rates.html][2000/02/10/1175257]]) Disguising *the Sting of* Higher Rates+
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128799][Ricky Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/13/opinion/liberties-king-of-the-hoods.html][2000/02/13/1176237]]) I used to wonder if the cocky strategist, *the Ricky Martin of* /dirty campaigning/, could have pulled President Bush through in '92, as he did in '88, when he zestfully turned Willie Horton into the bogyman.
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131814][Tina Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/sports/dog-show-for-a-champion-hound-a-final-bid-for-glory.html][2000/02/14/1176472]]) She's *the Tina Turner of* /dogs/.''
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4283152][John Rocker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/15/sports/sports-of-the-times-europeans-success-has-a-price.html][2000/02/15/1176631]]) Nobody wants to come off as *the John Rocker of* /hockey/ and say no.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316568][Walter Lippmann]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/16/sports/walter-fletcher-93-is-dead-writer-on-dogs-for-the-times.html][2000/02/16/1176873]]) I once called him *the Walter Lippmann of* /the hydrant set/, and he loved it.''
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/18/sports/goodwill-games-medals-and-risk-show-the-luge-is-no-joke.html][2000/02/18/1177372]]) Despite their deepest wishes, Gordy Sheer and Chris Thorpe know that the two-man luge is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /winter Olympic sports/.
28. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5589][Henry Matisse]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/20/arts/l-french-art-challenging-a-thesis-869813.html][2000/02/20/1177866]]) Denied vanguard status in her reading of history are the Picasso of ''Three Musicians,''  ''Girl Before Mirror'' and ''Guernica,'' the Miro of ''Birth of the World'' and the ''Constellations,'' *the Matisse of* the Barnes murals and ''Jazz,'' the Bonnard of the great nudes, the Mondrian of the ''classical'' period, and much of what we know of Brancusi, Gonzalez, Giacometti, Rouault, Soutine, Modigliani, to say nothing of the Dadaists and Surrealists.+
29. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887358][Miro]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/20/arts/l-french-art-challenging-a-thesis-869813.html][2000/02/20/1177866]]) Denied vanguard status in her reading of history are the Picasso of ''Three Musicians,''  ''Girl Before Mirror'' and ''Guernica,'' *the Miro of* ''Birth of the World'' and the ''Constellations,'' the Matisse of the Barnes murals and ''Jazz,'' the Bonnard of the great nudes, the Mondrian of the ''classical'' period, and much of what we know of Brancusi, Gonzalez, Giacometti, Rouault, Soutine, Modigliani, to say nothing of the Dadaists and Surrealists.+
30. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151803][Piet Mondrian]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/20/arts/l-french-art-challenging-a-thesis-869813.html][2000/02/20/1177866]]) Denied vanguard status in her reading of history are the Picasso of ''Three Musicians,''  ''Girl Before Mirror'' and ''Guernica,'' the Miro of ''Birth of the World'' and the ''Constellations,'' the Matisse of the Barnes murals and ''Jazz,'' the Bonnard of the great nudes, *the Mondrian of* the ''classical'' period, and much of what we know of Brancusi, Gonzalez, Giacometti, Rouault, Soutine, Modigliani, to say nothing of the Dadaists and Surrealists.+
31. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/20/arts/l-french-art-challenging-a-thesis-869813.html][2000/02/20/1177866]]) Denied vanguard status in her reading of history are *the Picasso of* ''Three Musicians,''  ''Girl Before Mirror'' and ''Guernica,'' the Miro of ''Birth of the World'' and the ''Constellations,'' the Matisse of the Barnes murals and ''Jazz,'' the Bonnard of the great nudes, the Mondrian of the ''classical'' period, and much of what we know of Brancusi, Gonzalez, Giacometti, Rouault, Soutine, Modigliani, to say nothing of the Dadaists and Surrealists.+
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/22/sports/baseball-anonymity-strikes-out-as-griffey-joins-reds.html][2000/02/22/1178469]]) ''It's very unique, though, to be able to bring *the Michael Jordan of* /baseball/ home where he was raised in Cincinnati,'' said Jim Bowden, the Reds' general manager, who tried to minimize how the contract favors the Reds.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/24/technology/screen-grab-on-the-trail-of-the-underground-railroad.html][2000/02/24/1178852]]) Another Web site, www.nyhistory.com /harriettubman/life.htm, has a biography and links to other sites on Harriet Tubman, *the Moses of* /the railroad/, an escaped slave who is credited with making 19 return trips to save more than 300 others.
34. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929320][Derrick Coleman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/27/sports/pro-basketball-nets-maintain-their-focus-and-finish-off-the-hornets.html][2000/02/27/1179628]]) ''I knew he has been shooting the ball well and rebounding well, playing like *the Derrick Coleman of* old,'' Van Horn said.+
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130742][Alanis Morissette]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/27/magazine/a-mighty-fortress.html][2000/02/27/1179735]]) Conservative Christianity has its own chaste heartthrobs, like Joshua Harris, the raffishly cute author of ''I Kissed Dating Good-Bye,'' and the singer Rebecca St. James, *the Alanis Morissette of* /the W.W.J.D./
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79015][Clark Kent]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/02/garden/trade-secrets-italian-designers-make-doors-fade-into-the-woodwork.html][2000/03/02/1180625]]) The Tre-Piu Pavilion was designed by Antonio Citterio, *the Clark Kent of* /Italian design/, whose subtle way of making modern furniture a tad more sensual has been a huge success in attracting Americans to Italian high design.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145222][Tony Gwynn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/08/sports/sports-of-the-times-sound-advice-for-jets-fans-get-used-to-it.html][2000/03/08/1182251]]) Junior had no desire to be *the Tony Gwynn of* /Seattle/: a lovable ancient staying put so he would not have to go through the trouble of redecorating another house in another baseball town.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/12/travel/on-the-road-to-reform-the-traveler-within.html][2000/03/12/1183090]]) I'll be *the Martha Stewart of* /travelers/, carrying a colorful supply of grosgrain ribbons to use as bookmarks: yellow for hotels, red for restaurants, green for the historical-cultural section, blue and purple for places of interest.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234691][Stevie Nicks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/12/arts/making-a-turn-from-fiery-to-meditative.html][2000/03/12/1183115]]) At 46, Ms. Gillis is a bit like *the Stevie Nicks of* /the dance world/ -- her name evokes cultlike enthusiasm or groans, but not much in between.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/12/nyregion/dartboards-draw-a-league-of-enthusiasts.html][2000/03/12/1183194]]) A graduate of Ithaca College, Mr. Spidal is *the Tiger Woods of* /the B Division/.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/12/nyregion/angel-of-mercy-to-those-with-wings.html][2000/03/12/1183431]]) ''He is *the Mother Teresa of* /the wild bird world/,'' said Ward Stone, the wildlife pathologist for the State Department of Environmental Conservation, who has sent injured Canada geese and ducks to the sanctuary.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q694774][Joseph Cornell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/13/arts/art-review-nature-caressed-by-a-hummingbird.html][2000/03/13/1183591]]) Between the adored exotic birds, the boxlike space and the prevailing aura of innocence and obsession, you may leave this show feeling that you have met *the Joseph Cornell of* /the 19th century/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/14/us/magic-of-marino-lingers-over-south-florida.html][2000/03/14/1183800]]) ''He is *the Babe Ruth of* /football/,'' Mr. Molinary said, standing outside the Dolphins' training camp in Davie today as, inside, Marino announced his retirement.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/arts/connections-even-techies-are-getting-nervous-about-technology.html][2000/03/18/1184684]]) Fortune magazine called Mr. Joy ''*the Edison of* /the Internet/'': he designed crucial system software and three of Sun's microprocessors as well as developing the Java programming language.
45. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6198638][Jim Tyrone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/theater/a-second-look-and-a-second-chance-to-forgive.html][2000/03/19/1184942]]) Rather than inhabiting the realistic setting of ''Long Day's Journey,'' which closely mirrors the life of O'Neill's brother, *the Jim Tyrone of* ''A Moon for the Misbegotten'' materializes amid a twisted fable that is part tragedy, part raucous comedy and part miracle play.+
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/19/weekinreview/nba-s-indecent-exposure.html][2000/03/19/1185165]]) So with the clock running out, Sabol went deep: ''Vince,'' he said, ''let us put a mike on you, and we'll make you *the John Wayne of* /pro football/.''
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37079][Tom Cruise]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/30/nyregion/public-lives-dear-great-whites-i-didn-t-really-mean-it.html][2000/03/30/1187893]]) ''White sharks are, for any diver, the apex --  *the Tom Cruise of* /the ocean/.''
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60029][Oskar Schindler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/01/movies/film-festival-reviews-an-actor-escapes-cairo-but-it-s-only-for-a-while.html][2000/04/01/1188325]]) His boss, a transplanted Cairene named Roschdy, has a side business smuggling illegal immigrants into France and styles himself ''*the Schindler of* /the Arabs/.''
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312786][Robert Mapplethorpe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/arts/television-radio-remembering-a-sensation-in-cincinnati.html][2000/04/02/1188511]]) As early as 1981, critics were debating the value of his elegant style and shocking subjects (and referring, in one instance, to an earlier photographer as ''*the Robert Mapplethorpe of* /his generation/'').
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4724][Le Corbusier]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/style/buried-in-clothes-a-closet-cries-out.html][2000/04/02/1188700]]) Past clients confirm that Ms. Tuman is *the Corbusier of* /confined space/.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q196090][Marvin Miller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/02/sports/sports-of-the-times-in-an-often-shady-and-dirty-business-it-is-business-as-usual.html][2000/04/02/1188826]]) Fleisher had not long before split from his brother, Marc, in a litigious feud that fractured a family made famous in basketball circles by their late father, Larry, *the Marvin Miller of* /hoops/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5679][Lord Byron]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/07/movies/film-festival-review-goofy-and-strung-out-but-charming-all-the-same.html][2000/04/07/1189860]]) For her part, Ms. Maclean trots out Dennis Hopper, once *the Lord Byron of* /the drug culture/ and now its Ancient Mariner, for a cameo as a scary guy our young friend meets in rehab.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707][Dorothy Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/09/nyregion/neighborhood-report-greenwich-village-buzz-mystery-writers-spice-up-genre-with.html][2000/04/09/1190562]]) She added, ''She's been described as *the Dorothy Parker of* /the crime novel/ and the Betty Boop of crime fiction, so hang onto your hats.''
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211731][Timothy Leary]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/09/us/terence-mckenna-53-dies-patron-of-psychedelic-drugs.html][2000/04/09/1190651]]) Terence McKenna, who so playfully and persistently pressed his message that psychedelic drugs are mankind's salvation that Timothy Leary himself christened him ''*the Timothy Leary of* /the 90's/,'' died on Monday at a friend's home in San Rafael, Calif.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232364][Rem Koolhaas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/13/garden/design-notebook-sugar-and-spice-and-everything-plastic.html][2000/04/13/1191464]]) The company Driade asked David Chipperfield, one of the master minimalists of London, and Kazuyo Sejima, known among cognoscenti as *the Rem Koolhaas of* /Japan/, to contribute.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80048][Al Capone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/style/a-night-out-with-justin-kerrigan-rolling-stoned.html][2000/04/16/1192341]]) He refers to Harvey Weinstein at Miramax, which bought the film last fall, as ''*the Al Capone of* /the movie industry/.''
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/19/arts/the-new-populism-rebecca-s-world-of-visionary-art-and-big-splashy-parties.html][2000/04/19/1192992]]) She's *the P. T. Barnum of* /the outsider art world/.''
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216563][Paul Anka]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/21/nyregion/perfection-made-easy-bowling-a-300-game-just-isn-t-the-feat-it-used-to-be.html][2000/04/21/1193538]]) Thirty years ago, throwing a 300 made you a bowling celebrity, *the Paul Anka of* /your local alley/.
59. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/23/arts/music-a-journey-begun-in-opera-continues-in-symphony.html][2000/04/23/1193855]]) ''I understood this when I was in Rome for the first time and saw *the Moses of* Michelangelo.+
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47213][Warren Buffett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/23/business/market-insight-havens-for-investors-on-edge-and-on-guard.html][2000/04/23/1194062]]) He wasn't *the Warren Buffett of* /his time/, but Mark Twain said he liked real estate because he was pretty sure God wasn't going to make any more of it.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/25/science/persistent-and-severe-drought-strikes-again.html][2000/04/25/1194441]]) He calls it *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /natural disasters/.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/26/jobs/at-last-a-pipe-fitter-s-wrench-of-her-own.html][2000/04/26/1194659]]) ''If she can make it,'' he quipped, ''she can be *the Jackie Robinson of* /the pipe-fitting world/.''
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/29/arts/television-review-sex-disco-ducks-and-oh-yes-kent-state.html][2000/04/29/1195337]]) So pity the poor 70's, *the Dangerfield of* /decades/, whose early years were a carry-over from the ever-popular 60's and whose later years were nothing but a prelude to the 80's.
64. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180962][Norman Mailer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/books/all-that-jive.html][2000/04/30/1195753]]) As a cultural and political contender, he has much in common with *the Norman Mailer of* ''Advertisements for Myself.''+
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/01/opinion/wired-offices-same-workers.html][2000/05/01/1196085]]) To date, Willis Haviland Carrier, *the Bill Gates of* /the air conditioner/, has been a greater benefactor to humanity than Bill Gates.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720][Genghis Khan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/04/nyregion/death-of-a-cardinal-cardinal-o-connor-80-dies-forceful-voice-for-vatican.html][2000/05/04/1196828]]) ''I was billed as *the Genghis Khan of* /the committee/,'' Cardinal O'Connor later told Mr. Hentoff.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/06/nyregion/case-goes-to-court-but-howdy-sits-it-out.html][2000/05/06/1197248]]) For the benefit of anyone under 40, Howdy Doody was *the Michael Jordan of* /television puppets/.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2685][Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/nyregion/long-island-journal-a-muscular-icon-now-touts-gray-matter.html][2000/05/07/1197350]]) He was *the Arnold Schwarzenegger of* /his day/, three times named ''America's Most Muscular Man.''
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72267][Cecil B. DeMille]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/tv/cover-story-making-big-epics-for-the-small-screen.html][2000/05/07/1197779]]) Robert Halmi Sr., *the Cecil B. DeMille of* /the 27-inch screen/, speaks proudly of the inspirational power of that pulpy television standby, the mini-series.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q653366][Larry Kramer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/garden/at-home-with-betty-friedan-beyond-mystique-a-frank-memoir.html][2000/05/11/1198493]]) But when it came to details like cooperation, she was a disaster, *the Larry Kramer of* /the women's movement/.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202878][Mae West]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/12/arts/family-fare-a-musical-with-legs.html][2000/05/12/1198733]]) Designed by Zofia Czechlewska and built by the Teatr Baj of Poland and Eli Worden, the elaborate puppets range from Maya, who looks like a pugnacious preschooler who has sprouted wings, to Miss Loveydear, *the Mae West of* /dragonflies/.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292381][Gaby Hoffmann]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/12/movies/film-review-under-the-heading-it-s-good-to-have-goals.html][2000/05/12/1198760]]) Judy, meanwhile, is dating a tiresome ceramicist played by Peter Bogdanovich, who once directed Mr. O'Neal in a frothy romantic comedy called ''What's Up, Doc,'' which also starred Barbra Streisand, whose name is dropped in passing, as well as Madeline Kahn, whom we may one day regard as *the Gaby Hoffmann of* /the 1970's/.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234068][Madeline Kahn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/12/movies/film-review-under-the-heading-it-s-good-to-have-goals.html][2000/05/12/1198760]]) But as portrayed by Ms. Hoffmann, who may be *the Madeline Kahn of* /the Clearasil set/, she's also the source of some of the film's best scenes, and the mouthpiece for its funniest lines.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/14/business/business-a-model-partnership-for-inner-city-renewal-derailed.html][2000/05/14/1199474]]) ''They wanted *the Michael Jordan of* /fast food/,'' Mr. Hawkins said.
75. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/14/world/vatican-discloses-the-third-secret-of-fatima.html][2000/05/14/1199572]]) Among the explanations the gunman gave prosecutors at a trial in 1985 was that his attempt was ''connected to the third secret of *the Madonna of* Fatima.''+
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/15/sports/boxing-jones-has-belts-but-no-challengers.html][2000/05/15/1199732]]) He is *the Michael Jordan of* /his sport/, but even Jordan could find legitimate challengers.
77. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3785007][Henry Sterns]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/15/nyregion/park-s-guitar-man-is-unplugged-and-unhappy.html][2000/05/15/1199762]]) That's something *the Henry Sterns of* the world will never understand,'' he added, referring to the parks commissioner.+
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/15/opinion/essay-rudy-on-the-ropes.html][2000/05/15/1199773]]) This was not *the Rudolph Giuliani of* a thousand prior press conferences.+
79. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/16/books/books-of-the-times-on-a-journey-in-which-flaws-can-light-the-way.html][2000/05/16/1199852]]) Marcel Proust, he of the little madeleines and the long sentences and the redeeming power of memory, is not *the Marcel Proust of* this intellectually powerful, deeply considered evaluation by Roger Shattuck, the highly esteemed scholar of French literary culture.+
80. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935160][Arthur Mitchell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/21/arts/dance-another-reunion-of-mr-b-s-diverse-progeny.html][2000/05/21/1201028]]) The Arthur Mitchell of 31 years ago and *the Arthur Mitchell of* today are totally different persons.+
81. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/21/weekinreview/ideas-trends-revelations-the-third-secret-raises-more-questions.html][2000/05/21/1201295]]) Among the many conflicting statements Mr. Agca gave prosecutors in 1985 was a claim that the shooting ''is connected to the third secret of *the Madonna of* Fatima.''+
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935][Isaac Newton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/22/books/books-of-the-times-exploring-a-present-that-is-invaded-by-the-past.html][2000/05/22/1201526]]) Think of Proust as *the Isaac Newton of* /memory/.
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3306481][Tyler Faith]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/24/world/retreat-lebanon-civilians-village-tugs-its-own-toward-kisses-home-two-each-cheek.html][2000/05/24/1202001]]) Village Tugs Its Own Toward *the Kisses of* Home, Two on Each Cheek+
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/26/sports/on-baseball-mcgwire-s-pace-is-amazing-even-for-him.html][2000/05/26/1202490]]) He is *the Babe Ruth of* /baseball's new era/.
85. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486096][Theodore Dreiser]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/28/books/future-shock.html][2000/05/28/1202754]]) His engagement with have-nots is a kind of return, like Aunt Bernie's, a visit to the worlds of John Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, Thornton Wilder and *the Theodore Dreiser of* ''An American Tragedy'' -- small-town, small-city, little-people writers.+
86. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22670][Friedrich Schiller]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/28/nyregion/wine-under-20-tangy-but-also-hip.html][2000/05/28/1202889]]) Israel is a homeland for emerald riesling, which is not a true riesling but a marriage, arranged at the University of California at Davis in the 1940's, of German riesling -- *the Schiller of* European white-wine grapes -- and muscadelle, a supporting actor in Bordeaux.+
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22670][Friedrich Schiller]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/28/nyregion/wine-under-20-from-israel-a-heavenly-vision.html][2000/05/28/1203215]]) Israel is a diaspora for emerald riesling, which is not a true riesling but a marriage, arranged at the University of California at Davis in the 1940's, of German riesling -- *the Schiller of* European white-wine grapes -- and muscadelle, a supporting actor in Bordeaux.+
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550629][Lyndon LaRouche]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/01/nyregion/once-and-again-a-republican-but-always-libertarian.html][2000/06/01/1203951]]) ''Murray Sabrin is *the Lyndon LaRouche of* /New Jersey/,'' Mr. Wilson said.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17131][Pontius Pilatus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/03/world/rome-journal-dueling-festivals-gay-pride-and-vatican-collide.html][2000/06/03/1204361]]) ''In this Jubilee, Amato is turning into *the Pontius Pilate of* /the year 2000/.''
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7659834][Sydney Biddle Barrows]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/08/nyregion/public-lives.html][2000/06/08/1205681]]) The missing John Lennon piano has been tracked down by SIDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS, *the Mayflower Madam of* /the 1980's/.
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453956][Alan Freed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/09/movies/film-review-into-the-night-endlessly-searching-for-the-perfect-rave.html][2000/06/09/1205861]]) He's down with the politics of dancing, so chilled that even a police bust cannot stop him, evoking *the Alan Freed of* ''American Hot Wax.''+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310176][Martin Amis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/10/books/other-freud-wild-one-new-translation-aims-free-master-his-disciples-obsessions.html][2000/06/10/1206103]]) He is a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and has been described by The Times of London as ''*the Martin Amis of* /British psychoanalysis/,'' for his ''brilliantly amusing and often profoundly unsettling'' work.
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-550108.html][2000/06/11/1206269]]) It was only after *the Johnny Appleseed of* /tulips/, a botanist named Carolus Clusius, cultivated and cataloged tulip varieties and gave them away as gifts that tulipomania really took hold.
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/travel/the-past-neatly-packaged.html][2000/06/11/1206294]]) Among those who took notice of the fine location was Benjamin Lester, a hard-driving Englishman from Poole, who by the 1780's had become *the Bill Gates of* /Newfoundland/.
95. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/14/world/italians-grant-pardon-to-turk-who-shot-pope.html][2000/06/14/1207298]]) The Vatican interpretation of the secret was happily accepted by Mr. Agca, who among many conflicting claims in his 1983 trial, said the shooting ''is connected to the third secret of *the Madonna of* Fatima.''+
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177854][Lorenzo de' Medici]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/15/garden/currents-los-angeles-architecture-heaven-can-t-wait.html][2000/06/15/1207422]]) How did a pastor become *the Lorenzo de' Medici of* /American architecture/ -- or, as he put it, ''hooked on architecture of the highest league''?
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5679][Lord Byron]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/16/movies/film-review-travels-with-a-stoned-candide-best-of-worlds-uh-say-what.html][2000/06/16/1207691]]) For her part Ms. Maclean trots out Dennis Hopper, once *the Lord Byron of* /the drug culture/ and now its Ancient Mariner, for a cameo as a scary guy our young friend meets in rehab.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q637200][Henry Higgins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/17/us/luis-baptista-58-an-author-and-an-expert-on-bird-song.html][2000/06/17/1207911]]) ''Luis was *the Henry Higgins of* /the bird world/,'' said Dr. James Harris, an avian veterinarian for the California Academy of Sciences.
99. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1507864][George Marx]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/books/there-ain-t-no-sanity-claus.html][2000/06/18/1208052]]) After movies made the brothers nationally famous, Marx masks turned up everywhere; people gave parties at which guests were obliged to come as *the Marx of* their choice.+
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/19/sports/olympics-the-road-to-sydney-degree-of-difficulty-was-outside-the-pool.html][2000/06/19/1208725]]) ''He's *the Michael Jordan of* /diving/,'' Ruiz said.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2586583][Henny Youngman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/21/arts/pop-review-a-conga-master-whose-drum-not-only-keeps-time-it-sings-too.html][2000/06/21/1209040]]) Carlos Valdes, known as Patato, could be *the Henny Youngman of* /conga drummers/.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/22/sports/golf-notebook-watson-cites-seniors-boon-no-woods.html][2000/06/22/1209351]]) Al Del Greco, the Tennessee Titans kicker, whom Testaverde describes as ''*the Tiger Woods of* /N.F.L./
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7226][Joan of Arc]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/23/arts/art-in-review-the-world-of-charlotte-moorman.html][2000/06/23/1209653]]) To the composer Edgard Varese she was ''*the Jeanne d'Arc of* /new music/.''
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271884][Norman Rockwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/25/books/bookend-par-avion.html][2000/06/25/1209910]]) Saint-Exupery's fall from literary grace begins with ''The Little Prince'' in his native country, where he is *the Norman Rockwell of* /letters/.
105. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5928][Jimi Hendrix]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/26/arts/making-a-museum-out-of-music-part-2-seattle-s-version-has-a-do-it-yourself-focus.html][2000/06/26/1210525]]) ''The cliche around here is that if you can inspire *the Jimi Hendrix of* the future, you've done your job,'' said Chris Bruce, the museum's curatorial director.+
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271884][Norman Rockwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/28/arts/bill-papas-73-artist-and-widely-syndicated-political-cartoonist.html][2000/06/28/1210928]]) The result was ''Papas's America,'' a large-format, limited-edition book that evoked scenes of everyday life in a manner that led some critics to label him *the Norman Rockwell of* /the 1980's/.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83338][Robin Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/09/nyregion/music-a-master-of-parody-weird-like-a-fox.html][2000/07/09/1213506]]) Mr. Yankovic is *the Robin Williams of* /rock/ -- a manic pop-culture sponge who delivers the funny goods.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189081][Howard Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/09/us/bolinas-journal-welcome-to-bolinas-please-keep-on-moving.html][2000/07/09/1213677]]) It is *the Howard Hughes of* /towns/.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8619][Pierre Trudeau]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/11/world/a-new-conservative-face-alters-canada-s-political-landscape.html][2000/07/11/1214079]]) But his sudden sweep to national prominence, culminating with his decisive election Saturday night as leader of the new Canadian Alliance Party, seems vaguely familiar, leading some commentators to call him *the Pierre Trudeau of* /the right/.
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220078][Kingsley Amis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/16/books/life-in-the-fast-lane.html][2000/07/16/1215031]]) His writing can put an impressionable reader in mind of Art Buchwald, *the Kingsley Amis of* ''Lucky Jim,'' a meaner Sherwood Anderson and Wallace Stegner (with whom he studied at Stanford long ago).+
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553321][Vince Lombardi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/16/opinion/liberties-the-7-million-man.html][2000/07/16/1215436]]) ''This guy is *the Vince Lombardi of* /business/,'' says John Huey, the Fortune editor.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5237521][David Merrick]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/16/tv/cover-story-assessing-responsibility-for-evil-beyond-imagining.html][2000/07/16/1215524]]) Jackson, he said, agreed to go to Nuremberg ''when he was told it was a chance to make history -- 'You're going to be *the David Merrick of* /the trial/ and produce the whole thing from straw.'
113. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199][Marcel Proust]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/19/books/books-of-the-times-the-absences-that-made-a-heart-grow-fonder.html][2000/07/19/1216001]]) The same cannot be said of Mr. Aciman for the simple reason that *the Proust of* ''Remembrance of Things Past'' came before him.+
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1341644][Rich Little]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/21/movies/lincoln-center-festival-reviews-video-as-art-in-a-world-on-tape.html][2000/07/21/1216431]]) He introduces himself as an impressionist -- ''*the Rich Little of* /Beaver/,'' the small Utah town that gives the film its name -- but his enthusiasm seems to exceed his talent.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/22/arts/truth-or-lies-in-sex-surveys-you-never-know.html][2000/07/22/1216662]]) The surveys that followed were even less representative: in the 1970's Shere Hite, *the Cassandra of* /women's sex/, was criticized for choosing a sample that included too many women who had emotional problems with men in the ''Hite Report on Female Sexuality.''
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/nyregion/music-dylan-s-still-going-strong-with-his-magic.html][2000/07/23/1217051]]) IN a way, Gertrude Jekyll is *the Elvis of* the gardening world.+ (D)
117. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/nyregion/music-dylan-s-still-going-strong-with-his-magic.html][2000/07/23/1217052]]) IN a way, Gertrude Jekyll is *the Elvis of* the gardening world.+ (D)
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/nyregion/music-dylan-s-still-going-strong-with-his-magic.html][2000/07/23/1217053]]) GERTRUDE JEKYLL may be *the Elvis of* /the gardening world/.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355314][Jack Welch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/business/business-in-china-a-management-maverick-builds-a-brand.html][2000/07/23/1217072]]) ''I would rank him as *the Jack Welch of* /China/,'' said Fred Hu, chief Asian economist for Goldman, Sachs.
120. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244512][Harry Potter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/us/celebrating-a-century-of-oz-wherever-road-leads.html][2000/07/23/1217206]]) With five million copies sold until it went into the public domain in 1956, ''The Wizard of Oz'' was *the Harry Potter of* its time.+
121. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233854][Rosalind Russell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/30/arts/television-radio-a-star-emerges-from-the-white-house-halls.html][2000/07/30/1218614]]) Delivering the high-speed banter written by the series' creator, Aaron Sorkin, Ms. Janney is a throwback to *the Rosalind Russell of* ''His Girl Friday'' and ''No Time for Comedy,'' while her C. J., wised up but with a core of vulnerability, recalls the roles that used to be written for Jean Arthur.+
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/31/us/philadelphia-diary-democrat-plays-tour-guide-while-republican-stages-her-own.html][2000/07/31/1219129]]) Is New Hampshire *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the Republican convention/?
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/04/arts/art-review-a-many-splendored-minimalist.html][2000/08/04/1219903]]) Right now this presence hovers like a beautiful mist over ''The Arts of Hon'ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a small miracle of an exhibition that pays homage to a late-16th-century artist who has become known to scholars and admirers as *the Leonardo of* /Japanese art/.
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589497][Dave Eggers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/05/books/no-kidding-does-irony-illuminate-or-corrupt.html][2000/08/05/1220090]]) Irony is what keeps Hamlet going, for example -- he's *the Dave Eggers of* /medieval Denmark/.
125. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41166][Jonathan Swift]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/05/books/no-kidding-does-irony-illuminate-or-corrupt.html][2000/08/05/1220090]]) The classic example here is *the Swift of* ''A Modest Proposal,'' who says one thing and depends on his audience to conclude the opposite.+
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366563][Dick Clark]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/06/arts/television-radio-chicano-radio-s-fading-signal.html][2000/08/06/1220323]]) Now 70 and still broadcasting regularly from oldies station KRTH-FM (101), Mr. Hugg likes to refer to himself as ''*the Dick Clark of* /the Chicanos/.''
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535129][Sol Hurok]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/07/arts/championing-workers-and-culture-too.html][2000/08/07/1220827]]) ''The purpose is to bring the arts, meaning culture, to working people, to bring a culture that reflects their lives and that will help bring their lives to a higher level,'' said Mr. Foner, who has been called *the Sol Hurok of* /the labor movement/.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93957][Gary Cooper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/opinion/public-interests-high-noon-at-gore-gap.html][2000/08/08/1220973]]) But every male politician's fantasy is being called *the Gary Cooper of* /the Senate/.)
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q440256][Sandy Koufax]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/09/nyregion/nyc-a-milestone-you-call-this-get-real.html][2000/08/09/1221304]]) It is filled with Jewish holy days, and if he is true to his faith, Mr. Lieberman will skip at least half a dozen days of campaigning, *the Sandy Koufax of* /politics/.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/10/arts/critic-s-choice-pop-cd-s-rooted-on-the-edge-of-the-heartland.html][2000/08/10/1221400]]) Steve Earle, *the Ralph Nader of* /country music/, is its patriarch.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/11/arts/art-review-testing-the-durability-of-welding-as-a-creative-form.html][2000/08/11/1221592]]) And the works of Gonzalez and Picasso, in turn, inspired David Smith, an American who might be called *the Picasso of* /welding/, so inventive and prolific was his output from the 1930's into the 1960's.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2263][Tom Hanks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/nyregion/an-author-who-goes-along-for-the-ride.html][2000/08/13/1222108]]) He described Metro-North, with its many service awards, as ''*the Tom Hanks of* /commuter railroads/.''
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7812575][Todd Pratt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/nyregion/theater-waiting-in-the-wings-the-understudy-role.html][2000/08/13/1222114]]) I guess I'm *the Todd Pratt of* '/Kiss Me, Kate/,' '' she said, referring to the backup catcher for the Mets superstar Mike Piazza.'
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/nyregion/for-the-state-a-move-into-the-history-books.html][2000/08/13/1222127]]) ''Connecticut is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /American Politics/,'' said Darrell West, a political science professor and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University.
135. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2263][Tom Hanks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/nyregion/transit-revealed-the-wry-voice-of-metro-north.html][2000/08/13/1222136]]) He described Metro-North, with its many service awards, as ''*the Tom Hanks of* /commuter railroads/.''+ (D)
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/13/weekinreview/this-is-extremely-sporting.html][2000/08/13/1222322]]) The stunt biker Dave Mirra, *the Michael Jordan of* /the dirt set/, has his own chewing gum (Dave Mirra's BMX Bubble Gum), as well as his own pro model signature Adidas sneaker as well as a cereal en route.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589905][Red Adair]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/18/sports/tv-sports-for-tiger-and-his-pals-air-time-is-shared-time.html][2000/08/18/1223401]]) An amazing talent, like being *the Red Adair of* /ribbons/.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1173180][Dave Douglas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/25/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-828696.html][2000/08/25/1225073]]) But there's a resourcefulness here: the players use cheap electronics well, they mine a lot from simple vamps, and the disciplined, versatile trumpeter Rob Mazurek may yet become something like *the Dave Douglas of* /the Midwest/.
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/27/nyregion/on-the-map-retaining-devotion-to-a-saint-and-her-private-chapel.html][2000/08/27/1225599]]) The chapel has a little loft with an organ, pews, a beautiful altar and statues made in Italy, among them, St. Febronia, St. Anthony and *the Madonna of* Tindari, one of the rare icons known as black Madonnas whose image can be traced to antiquity.+
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134183][Magic Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/28/sports/sports-of-the-times-cooper-leaving-behind-a-legacy-of-greatness.html][2000/08/28/1226010]]) ''Cynthia Cooper is the Michael Jordan, the Larry Bird, *the Magic Johnson of* /this league/,'' Rich Adubato, the coach of the New York Liberty, said.
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344336][Robert Mondavi]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/30/dining/wine-talk-when-designated-drivers-piloted-chariots.html][2000/08/30/1226310]]) Some amphoras were inscribed, ''From the vineyards of Lucius Laenis,'' who may well have been *the Robert Mondavi of* /his time/.
142. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213614][Cyrano de Bergerac]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/03/arts/music-on-his-stages-life-is-but-a-dream.html][2000/09/03/1227482]]) Then he discovered the theater, where his acting career lifted off in felicitous fashion, with an early Broadway appearance as the heartthrob Christian de Neuvillette opposite *the Cyrano de Bergerac of* Christopher Plummer and a subsequent Hamlet at the Old Globe in San Diego.+
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39524][Gamal Abdel Nasser]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/03/world/lebanon-challenger-takes-on-syria-too.html][2000/09/03/1227783]]) ''Hariri may have become *the Gamal Abdel Nasser of* /the Sunni Muslim sect/, and he may be able to sweep Beirut in the elections, but this will not bring him closer to the Grand Serai,'' he said, referring to the huge stone building that houses the prime minister's office.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294326][Damien Hirst]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/08/arts/art-review-sisters-for-a-time-in-revolution.html][2000/09/08/1228733]]) If it were possible to have met any one of them, it would probably be Goncharova, *the Damien Hirst of* /prerevolutionary Moscow/, who issued crazy decrees, appeared in outrageous films and cabarets and scandalized the public with pictures that the police repeatedly confiscated as pornographic and blasphemous.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314926][John Waters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/10/arts/looking-ahead-football-and-other-guilty-pleasures.html][2000/09/10/1229141]]) He's sort of like *the John Waters of* /the small screen/.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726071][Jimmy Buffett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/10/nyregion/music-where-60-s-values-still-hold-sway.html][2000/09/10/1229180]]) ''We wanted to get Dar Williams because she is *the Jimmy Buffett of* /the young folk crowd/.
147. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189758][Marvin Gaye]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/10/arts/pop-jazz-amid-the-quick-hits-a-dose-of-earnestness.html][2000/09/10/1229620]]) Taking *the Marvin Gaye of* ''Sexual Healing'' as his model, and merging Gaye's undulating grooves with a touch of Sade, Maxwell comes across as sweet but virile, with touches of mysticism and eccentricity giving depth to his come-ons.+
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215120][Cole Porter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/10/arts/the-annotated-list-jazz-pop-new-nuggets-and-piles-of-old-gold.html][2000/09/10/1229621]]) One hopes this beautifully annotated five-CD set will lead to a resurgence of interest in Malvina Reynolds, *the Cole Porter of* /striking workers/; if not, the Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Lucinda Williams cuts should lure the already converted.
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552806][Wayne Newton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/14/technology/online-shopper-undercover-buying-fake-names-and-all.html][2000/09/14/1230336]]) So does the time that I placed a Bruce Springsteen CD in my shopping cart, then removed it after being teased by my husband (who refers to the aging Mr. Springsteen as ''*the Wayne Newton of* /our generation/'').
150. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/arts/music-review-pavarotti-and-his-fans-rendezvous-at-the-garden.html][2000/09/16/1230837]]) It's easy to poke fun at events like this one, sponsored by Tibor Rudas, fast becoming *the P. T. Barnum of* /classical music today/.
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065595][Charles Murray]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/17/books/new-york-s-finest.html][2000/09/17/1230995]]) They make short work of my favorite, Theodore Bingham, *the Charles Murray of* /his day/.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/17/sports/the-boating-report-veteran-us-sailors-are-seeking-redemption-in-sydney-harbor.html][2000/09/17/1231421]]) LASER -- In the popular open dinghy class, Robert Scheidt of Brazil is *the Michael Jordan of* /Laser sailing/, a dominant force who has won four world championships.
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95026][Shirley MacLaine]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/18/business/brash-newcomer-rolls-out-latest-incarnation-of-details.html][2000/09/18/1231599]]) ''It has become *the Shirley MacLaine of* /magazines/.
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202878][Mae West]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/19/science/conversation-with-lynda-jeanne-williams-come-cosmic-cabaret-with-physics.html][2000/09/19/1231759]]) You say that you are *the Mae West of* /physics/.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/20/nyregion/food-chief-defends-the-2.18-lunch.html][2000/09/20/1232150]]) Barbara Gulotta, *the Martha Stewart of* /school lunches/, presided over the test kitchen in Long Island City, Queens, dressed in a chic black shift, with red lipstick setting off her  sweeping auburn hair.
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1779][Louis Armstrong]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/22/arts/family-fare-a-light-look-at-dark-ages.html][2000/09/22/1232558]]) Robin Bady will offer songs and tales, and Ernie Strauss, who might be considered *the Satchmo of* /shofars/, will bring about a dozen examples to touch and to try.
157. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/22/style/review-fashion-those-who-defy-and-those-who-don-t.html][2000/09/22/1232631]]) What resulted, though, seemed a straight-up parody of New Wave: *the Madonna of* ''Desperately Seeking Susan.''+
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q305497][Richard Avedon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/arts/antiques-a-devotion-to-japanese-art-is-requited.html][2000/09/29/1234498]]) Utamaro, who worked at the end of the 18th century, was *the Richard Avedon of* /Edo/.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/sports/sydney-2000-basketball-gaze-now-35-puts-on-a-show-tv-could-love.html][2000/09/29/1234541]]) When the Australian point guard, Shane Heal, referred to him as ''*the Michael Jordan of* /Australia/'' today, Gaze shook his head.
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q375268][Frank Stella]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/arts/art-in-review-udomsak-krisanamis.html][2000/09/29/1234670]]) Udomsak Krisanamis, who immigrated to the United States from Thailand in 1991, may be *the Frank Stella of* /current painting/.
161. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/nyregion/dining-out-choices-read-like-a-culinary-map-of-us.html][2000/10/01/1235028]]) Openers I'd order again are the hearts of romaine in a creamy lemon dressing and *the Napoleon of* tuna tartar sandwiched with crisp won tons.+
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40504][Jim Carrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/03/books/books-of-the-times-in-dark-days-the-human-hyena-has-the-last-laugh.html][2000/10/03/1235631]]) Up till now T. Coraghessan Boyle has been *the Jim Carrey of* /fiction/: all broad gestures and mimicry, nervous hyperbole and dazzling razzmatazz.
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/03/politics/lieberman-expected-to-set-tone.html][2000/10/03/1235737]]) ''He's *the Cal Ripken of* /debate preparation/.''
164. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211144][Ellen Burstyn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/06/movies/at-the-movies-burstyn-past-and-present.html][2000/10/06/1236384]]) And then there is *the Ellen Burstyn of* 2000, starring in a different kind of horror movie: ''Requiem for a Dream,'' a tough-minded independent film about a Brighton Beach boy (Jared Leto) and his house-bound mother (Ms. Burstyn), who become involved with drugs in different but equally dangerous ways (review, Page 27).+
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83338][Robin Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/books/have-you-hugged-your-tree-today.html][2000/10/08/1236832]]) His topic hopping and hyperactive prose reveal him to be a consummate showman -- *the Robin Williams of* /writers/ -- but like that actor he rarely leaves you wanting more.
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182882][John James Audubon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/nyregion/the-guide-488941.html][2000/10/08/1236967]]) James Prosek, known as *the John James Audubon of* /fishing/ for the accuracy and delicacy of his piscatorial watercolors (originals selling for up to $7,000), is a best-selling author of books on fishing that he illustrates with his paintings.
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434513][Alice Waters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/nyregion/on-the-trail-of-antiques-and-collectibles.html][2000/10/08/1237000]]) Ms. Peck, author of ''The Buffet Book'' (Viking, 1997) and sometimes referred to as ''*the Alice Waters of* /the East Coast/,'' is a chef who celebrates the state's farm-fresh organic food.
168. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3320282][Clyde Barrow]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/10/arts/pop-review-a-populist-likes-his-country-elegant.html][2000/10/10/1237601]]) Was *the Clyde Barrow of* /country music/, the smoothest outlaw ever to sing honeyed words into a microphone, going to pull off this latest caper, promoting a new album on a punk label to an audience of relatively youthful downtowners?
169. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104372][Doris Day]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/11/automobiles/collecting-the-man-with-40-corvettes-and-other-classic-tales.html][2000/10/11/1237800]]) Or a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, *the Doris Day of* /automobiles/.
170. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3772][Quentin Tarantino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/theater/theater-review-riding-the-cosmic-line-the-last-stop-is-death.html][2000/10/14/1238573]]) There is an icy feeling to this play that makes *the Quentin Tarantino of* ''Pulp Fiction,'' by comparison, seem positively sticky with warm compassion.+
171. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240496][Lizzie Borden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/15/nyregion/jewish-newark-s-urban-pioneers-rest-uneasily-dead-left-behind-suburban-diaspora.html][2000/10/15/1238921]]) Another marks the grave of ''*the Lizzie Borden of* Newark,'' who was convicted of killing her brother with an ax in the late 1940's.+
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/16/books/books-of-the-times-a-writer-wildly-tearing-up-his-life-to-feed-his-art.html][2000/10/16/1239323]]) The low point was Mr. Bellow's unfortunate remark: ''Who is *the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/?
173. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6957845][Nadir Shah]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/19/arts/arts-in-america-the-topkapi-treasures-find-friends-in-south-florida.html][2000/10/19/1239917]]) The dagger, certainly the best-known attraction in this exhibition and in the palace in Istanbul, was intended to be a gift from the sultan to *the Nadir Shah of* Iran.+
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55245][Laurence Olivier]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/movies/jazz-review-balancing-acts-with-contrast-and-some-risk.html][2000/10/20/1240188]]) In the right situation, Mr. Lovano can become something like *the Laurence Olivier of* /jazz/ -- a serious practitioner with no fear, a high-wire buddha who has found his own rhythm, clearly ecstatic to be doing what he's doing and using the logic of bebop harmony and every bit of his own physicality to shape his delivery.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q453251][Horatio Alger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/nyregion/baseball-subway-series-from-agbayani-to-zimmer-a-primer.html][2000/10/20/1240346]]) Piazza, by the way, is *the Horatio Alger of* /baseball/.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-10-22-00-questions-for-milan-protic-mittel-hizzoner.html][2000/10/22/1240671]]) Is it fair to say that you wouldn't mind becoming known as *the Rudy Giuliani of* /Belgrade/?
177. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2808][Elton John]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/arts/an-organ-legend-in-vivid-memory.html][2000/10/22/1240688]]) The first of these Heavy Organ concerts, held at the Fillmore East in New York on Dec. 1, 1970, made an indelible impression on Fox's fellow organist and admirer Carlo Curley, whose 1998 memoir, ''In the Pipeline,'' describes Fox and the scene: ''He looked like *the Elton John of* /the organ/ with an outlandish bow tie, paisley jacket accented in shimmering silks, and rhinestones on the heels of his organ shoes.
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160278][John D. Rockefeller]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/realestate/streetscapes-1905-gorham-building-fifth-avenue-36th-street-recreating-stanford.html][2000/10/22/1240715]]) Charles H. Carpenter Jr., author of ''Gorham Silver'' (Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: 1997) called Holbrook *the John D. Rockefeller of* /the silver industry/.
179. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3925][Grace Kelly]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/nyregion/katherine-w-fanning-pioneering-editor-is-dead-at-73.html][2000/10/22/1241065]]) Society columnists dubbed her ''*the Grace Kelly of* /Chicago/.''+ (D)
180. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3925][Grace Kelly]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/us/katherine-w-fanning-73-pioneering-newspaper-editor.html][2000/10/23/1241219]]) Society columnists called her ''*the Grace Kelly of* /Chicago/.''
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q951317][John Rambo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/27/arts/art-review-where-men-strut-like-gods-and-devotion-takes-all-forms.html][2000/10/27/1242165]]) Rama was *the Rambo of* /Indian literature/, brawny and brave but a tad short in the brains department.
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4837645][Babe Dahlgren]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/28/nyregion/nyc-lazio-labors-to-become-heavy-hitter.html][2000/10/28/1242527]]) Think of Representative Rick A. Lazio as *the Babe Dahlgren of* /New York politics/.
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11812][Thomas Jefferson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/29/nyregion/li-work-a-dreamer-s-vision-vs-reality-on-road-and-rail.html][2000/10/29/1242729]]) ''He was *the Thomas Jefferson of* /Georgia Tech/,'' said Paul Muldawer, an Atlanta architect and a colleague during Dr. Bragdon's two decades on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
184. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/29/travel/l-premier-s-collapse-868981.html][2000/10/29/1242753]]) Last October we booked a Western Mediterranean cruise on *the Rembrandt of* Premier.+
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/29/arts/television-radio-after-34-years-unable-to-let-go-of-the-prisoner.html][2000/10/29/1242940]]) In Western eyes, Mr. Milosevic's undeniable awfulness (politicians and diplomats cheerfully called him ''evil'' and ''*the Hitler of* /the Balkans/'') justified nearly anything that happened in Kosovo -- revenge in the pursuit of liberty was no vice.
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/01/nyregion/clinton-and-lazio-turn-negative-on-campaign-use-of-cole-attack.html][2000/11/01/1243691]]) Lazio is trying to turn Muslims into *the Willie Horton of* /2000/,'' the eight groups said in a joint statement.
187. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316906][Philippe Starck]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/garden/ruffles-and-flourishes-to-hail-the-new-chief.html][2000/11/02/1243860]]) (Tiffany was *the Philippe Starck of* /his day/.)
188. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5084722][Charlie Cook]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/us/2000-campaign-dead-center-middle-michigan-politics-forecaster-much-demand.html][2000/11/02/1243896]]) He's *the Charlie Cook of* /the Wolverine state/.
189. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/magazine/the-know-it-alls.html][2000/11/05/1244777]]) A quiet 43-year-old computer consultant who has been called ''*the Michael Jordan of* /game shows/,'' Pawlowicz (pronounced pa-VLO-vich) never lost a match while steamrolling to the title of the 1992 ''Jeopardy!''
190. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/magazine/the-know-it-alls.html][2000/11/05/1244777]]) Chris Ballard article on trivia buffs who are passionate almost to obsession about becoming contestants on TV game shows and spend lots of time playing, and winning, Internet trivia contests; focuses on Leszek Pawlowicz, considered *the Michael Jordan of* game shows; photos (M)+
191. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604][Frank Lloyd Wright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/movies/holiday-films-how-the-grinch-borrowed-ideas-from-all-over.html][2000/11/05/1244832]]) He concluded that allusions to Islamic architecture, the sandcastle-like works of the Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi and *the Frank Lloyd Wright of* the spiraling Guggenheim Museum deserved to be included in the movie's visual vocabulary as well.+
192. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/05/nyregion/first-person-encounter-with-a-legend.html][2000/11/05/1244897]]) ''You're *the Babe Ruth of* /this sport, of this marathon/!
193. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589905][Red Adair]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/08/business/management-relishing-the-role-of-technology-trouble-shooter.html][2000/11/08/1245492]]) But Mr. Feld figures their businesses have enough in common that he can market himself as *the Red Adair of* /information technology/.
194. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39792][Jack Nicholson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/movies/film-review-a-dysfunctional-family-with-wounds-exposed.html][2000/11/10/1246081]]) Mr. Ruffalo's star-making performance deserves to be added to the list of charismatic, grownup lost boys that includes the Marlon Brando of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' and *the Jack Nicholson of* ''Easy Rider.''+
195. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34012][Marlon Brando]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/movies/film-review-a-dysfunctional-family-with-wounds-exposed.html][2000/11/10/1246081]]) Mr. Ruffalo's star-making performance deserves to be added to the list of charismatic, grownup lost boys that includes *the Marlon Brando of* ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' and the Jack Nicholson of ''Easy Rider.''+
196. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/arts/dance-hands-that-can-teach-any-object-to-fly.html][2000/11/12/1246459]]) If he's *the Tiger Woods of* /juggling/, however, he also reflects on how age brings physical diminishment: ''The pure athletic skills are probably starting to decline.
197. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/18/nyregion/three-candidates-vie-to-lead-splintered-transit-union.html][2000/11/18/1248183]]) ''But *the Ralph Nader of* /this election/ is Willie James, not me.
198. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/18/nyregion/the-milder-mayor-regains-his-roar-giuliani-returns-to-his-critical-self.html][2000/11/18/1248218]]) She added that ''*the Rudy Giuliani of* a few months ago started talking about working together with people, and we did a deal on pensions that worked for both parties.+
199. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711688][Mark Morris]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/books/art-for-pleasure-s-sake.html][2000/11/19/1248335]]) Where was *the Mark Morris of* /classical ballet/?
200. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186492][George S. Patton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/nyregion/jersey-macho-mammas-strut-their-stuffing.html][2000/11/19/1248471]]) Ms. Rakitta, *the General Patton of* /Turkey Day/, doesn't just cook her own family's feast.
201. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302057][John Doe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/giving/and-the-award-for-most-gifted-performance-goes-to.html][2000/11/20/1248934]]) Trevor, 12, is *the John Doe of* /his day/.
202. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732413][Queen Esther]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/20/us/counting-vote-florida-secretary-state-human-lightning-rod-vote-counting-storm.html][2000/11/20/1249020]]) Among the thousands of messages that poured into her e-mail In box since Election Day was one that described her as *the Queen Esther of* /Sunshine State politics/.
203. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16993879][Function]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/21/arts/critic-s-notebook-blue-moods-and-white-lightning.html][2000/11/21/1249215]]) Divergent Views Are Argued On *the Function of* the Court+
204. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/26/magazine/sense-and-nonsense.html][2000/11/26/1250159]]) But whereas Disney was primarily an impresario and an empire builder, *the Henry Ford of* /fantasy/, Dr. Seuss, who died in 1991 at the age of 87, conformed to a different American archetype: the solitary genius who happens, almost in spite of himself, to be a canny entrepreneur.
205. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q935245][Steve Hogarth]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/26/magazine/footnotes-311308.html][2000/11/26/1250452]]) Narrow Escape For *the H of* H-P+
206. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/27/world/romanian-ex-president-winning-but-runoff-is-expected.html][2000/11/27/1250701]]) Bogdan Chirieac, chief editorial writer for the newspaper Adevarul, called the 70-year-old Mr. Iliescu ''*the Gorbachev of* /Romania/'' and said, ''It's ridiculous that he's going to be president again, but we are in the childhood of democracy.''
207. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1047261][Casey Stengel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/books/essay-the-voice-of-small-town-america.html][2000/12/03/1251947]]) More, because he turned Harold Ross, the creator and first editor of The New Yorker, into a legend, *the Casey Stengel of* /American letters/, the guy who wanted to know if Moby Dick was the whale or the man and who scribbled ''Who he?''
208. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/books/books-of-the-times-tales-with-rivers-of-blood-and-freshets-of-freud.html][2000/12/07/1253134]]) In this much coarser and more violent, action-heavy story, Mr. Deaver presents the villainous Dr. Aaron Matthews, whom a newspaper once called ''*the Einstein of* /therapists/'' in the days before Hannibal Lecter became his main career influence.
209. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160538][Gian Lorenzo Bernini]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/12/style/rush-hour-all-month-at-the-beauty-salons.html][2000/12/12/1254601]]) In preparation for Christmas, which she will spend at a country estate in England, Ms. Ban Breathnach plans to have her hair cut and colored at John Frieda, her eyebrows shaped and tweezed by Eliza Petrescu (regarded by some as *the Bernini of* /eyebrow-arching/), her manicure administered at Vogue Nails on Lexington Avenue and her muscles toned in extra sessions with her personal trainer.
210. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/13/us/contesting-vote-text-supreme-court-ruling-bush-v-gore-florida-recount-case.html][2000/12/13/1254954]]) Fairfax's Devisee, which held that *the Virginia Court of* Appeals had misconstrued its own forfeiture laws to deprive a British subject of lands secured to him by federal treaties, occurred amidst vociferous states' rights attacks on the Marshall Court.+
211. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/14/us/43rd-president-text-supreme-court-ruling-bush-v-gore-florida-recount-case.html][2000/12/14/1255076]]) Fairfax's Devisee, which held that *the Virginia Court of* Appeals had misconstrued its own forfeiture laws to deprive a British subject of lands secured to him by federal treaties, occurred amidst vociferous states' rights attacks on the Marshall Court.+
212. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/opinion/foreign-affairs-medal-of-honor.html][2000/12/15/1255406]]) America today is *the Michael Jordan of* /geopolitics/.
213. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/movies/movie-guide.html][2000/12/15/1255477]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.
214. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78517][Fritz Kreisler]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/16/arts/think-tank-a-band-with-a-lot-more-to-offer-than-talented-trumpeters.html][2000/12/16/1255559]]) Mr. Sulzer wondered whether Prathida, a 7-year-old orchestra member whom he called ''*the Fritz Kreisler of* /elephants/,'' would recognize dissonance.
215. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473208][Roger Clemens]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/17/sports/backtalk-three-questions-too-heavy-to-carry-for-another-year.html][2000/12/17/1255730]]) He is *the Roger Clemens of* /coaches/.
216. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/17/nyregion/jersey-what-s-so-funny-um-not-my-friend.html][2000/12/17/1256055]]) THURSDAY  In ''Deconstructing Jesus,'' Robert Price, a scholar at the Jesus Seminar of the Westar Institute, explores the ''real Jesus of history as opposed to *the Jesus of* myth.''+
217. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/20/nyregion/a-candidate-for-council-cites-pressure-not-to-run.html][2000/12/20/1256819]]) They told me that I would be *the Ralph Nader of* /the election/.''
218. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/books/books-of-the-times-a-murder-in-kenya-then-a-search-for-the-back-story.html][2000/12/22/1257130]]) Since coming to Kenya with Justin, Tessa has become involved in various human rights campaigns, agitating for women's rights, health care and international aid; she has become known locally as ''the Princess Diana of the African Poor'' and ''*the Mother Teresa of* /the Nairobi Slums/.''
219. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9685][Diana, Princess of Wales]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/books/books-of-the-times-a-murder-in-kenya-then-a-search-for-the-back-story.html][2000/12/22/1257130]]) Since coming to Kenya with Justin, Tessa has become involved in various human rights campaigns, agitating for women's rights, health care and international aid; she has become known locally as ''*the Princess Diana of* /the African Poor/'' and ''the Mother Teresa of the Nairobi Slums.''
220. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303207][Ricky Nelson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/movies/pop-and-music-guide.html][2000/12/22/1257145]]) Everyone is welcome at this annual gathering of Jews and simpatico gentiles, whose hosts are the journalist and songwriter Rob Tannenbaum and Sean Altman, *the Ricky Nelson of* /the New York club scene/.
221. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/movies/movie-guide.html][2000/12/22/1257162]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
222. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272203][Van Morrison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/movies/pop-rock-and-blues-as-2001-beckons-noisemakers-from-funk-to-salsa-cavort-110043.html][2000/12/22/1257322]]) Hobex is a soulful party band led by Greg Humphreys, who is turning into *the Van Morrison of* /the college-rock circuit/ singing his own poignant compositions alongside chestnuts by the likes of Sam Cooke.
223. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467087][Guy Lombardo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/22/movies/pop-rock-and-blues-as-2001-beckons-noisemakers-from-funk-to-salsa-cavort-110086.html][2000/12/22/1257326]]) Don't call her *the Guy Lombardo of* /punk rock/, but it is becoming clear that this revered poet likes a good tradition.
224. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/movies/movie-guide.html][2000/12/29/1258747]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
225. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467087][Guy Lombardo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-194220.html][2000/12/29/1258759]]) Don't call her *the Guy Lombardo of* /punk rock/, but it is becoming clear that this revered poet likes a good tradition.+ (D)
226. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272203][Van Morrison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-194220.html][2000/12/29/1258759]]) Hobex is a soulful party band led by Greg Humphreys, who is turning into *the Van Morrison of* /the college-rock circuit/, singing his own poignant compositions alongside chestnuts by the likes of Sam Cooke.+ (D)
227. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4030][Duke Ellington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/30/nyregion/master-latin-jazz-rediscovered-79-after-lean-decades-chico-o-farrill-revels-his.html][2000/12/30/1259012]]) To his admirers over the decades, Chico O'Farrill has been *the Duke Ellington of* /Latin jazz/.
228. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83396][Eleanor Roosevelt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/31/nyregion/legacies-they-left-16-long-islanders-who-made-their-mark.html][2000/12/31/1259131]]) Hannah Komanoff was *the Eleanor Roosevelt of* /Long Beach/, a political pioneer ahead of her time.
229. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/31/nyregion/long-island-journal-passion-for-guitar-strings.html][2000/12/31/1259140]]) Alex Acuna, *the Tiger Woods of* /percussionists/, uses the synthetic alternative, Mr. D'Addario said.
230. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/31/sports/sydney-bronx-winners-golf-lover-maine-virtual-tiger-woods.html][2000/12/31/1259397]]) Willey said it would benefit *the Michael Jordan of* /cyberspace/ to log a few minutes on a real basketball court, and for the virtual version of Mike Tyson to know his way around an actual boxing ring.
231. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/31/sports/sydney-bronx-winners-golf-lover-maine-virtual-tiger-woods.html][2000/12/31/1259397]]) Four years later, Willey, a father of two, has become *the Tiger Woods of* /cyberspace/, where he is shooting in the low 50's.

** 2001
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/sports/pro-football-barrow-and-armstead-inject-hurricane-attitude.html][2001/01/04/1260139]]) Armstead and Barrow have been extremely respectful of McNabb this week, with Barrow calling him *the Michael Jordan of* /the Eagles/.
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193368][Ted Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/business/entrepreneur-walking-fine-line-at-a-news-channel-for-china.html][2001/01/08/1261239]]) Ask Liu Chang Le whether he aspires to be *the Ted Turner of* /China/, and he laughs.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/sports/on-pro-football-mcnabb-on-the-run-from-start-to-finish.html][2001/01/08/1261308]]) McNabb has been called *the Michael Jordan of* /the National Football League/.
4. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/01/12/1262099]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
5. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133028][Richard III of England]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/theater/theater-shakespeare-wrote-arias-for-villains.html][2001/01/14/1262559]]) The search for the villain also became the actor's search for self and the difficulty of following the great villains, like *the Richard III of* Laurence Olivier, whose interpretation was one of the most dazzling demonstrations of the actor's art that has ever been put on film.+
6. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/01/19/1263959]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310586][Jesse Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/21/books/wanton-deconstruction.html][2001/01/21/1264386]]) he wanted to step in like some sort of jet-set peacemaker, *the Jesse Jackson of* /the seminar room/.''
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/21/nyregion/for-tavern-signs-a-fitting-tribute.html][2001/01/21/1264496]]) ''I like to call him *the Bill Gates of* /the sign-painting trade/,'' Dr. Schoelwer said.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/21/sports/horse-racing-long-shot-wins-holy-bull-as-songandaprayer-fades.html][2001/01/21/1264770]]) ''He's always been *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /racing/,'' Hatchett said of Radical Riley, who now has four victories and three seconds in 13 races.
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3051017][Ernie Banks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/23/sports/sports-of-the-times-newsome-still-has-all-the-right-moves.html][2001/01/23/1265163]]) ''I was *the Ernie Banks of* /the National Football League/,'' Newsome said, referring to the beloved Chicago Cub first baseman who never played in a World Series.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/24/nyregion/nyc-they-ll-take-job-security-over-respect.html][2001/01/24/1265463]]) IF you were *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /your profession/, fighting every day for respect and all too often falling short, would you go out of your way to do something that you know will make people think even less of you?
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/25/garden/swank-plans-in-skid-row-los-angeles.html][2001/01/25/1265566]]) He is ''*the P. T. Barnum of* /developers/,'' said a competing developer, Dan Rosenfeld, affectionately.
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/26/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/01/26/1265784]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/26/sports/pro-football-ravens-corners-allow-no-room-for-error.html][2001/01/26/1265861]]) McAlister's teammate, defensive back Robert Bailey, calls him *the Mike Tyson of* /cornerbacks/, a physical, smothering cornerback who can frustrate and dominate.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/31/arts/soul-searching-private-pantheon-art-menil-collection-houston-grapples-with-its.html][2001/01/31/1267102]]) ''To me the Menil is *the Garbo of* /museums/ in its elegance and allure, and its seeming desire to be left alone,'' said Vance Muse, the collection's spokesman.
16. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/02/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/02/02/1267729]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31073][Walter Cronkite]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/06/nyregion/public-lives.html][2001/02/06/1268762]]) Between phone calls to Warren Buffett and Michael Eisner, Mr. MacAdams said, Mr. Wenner had agreed with an epithet fit for a magazine editor, pronouncing Mr. Loder ''*the Walter Cronkite of* /MTV/.''
18. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/09/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/02/09/1269371]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100937][Fred Astaire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/09/arts/art-in-review-jan-dibbets-early-works.html][2001/02/09/1269536]]) Consider Mr. Dibbets *the Fred Astaire of* /Conceptual photography/.
20. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/arts/l-dvd-audio-equipment-counts-822264.html][2001/02/11/1269903]]) And as a bonus, I can enjoy this with *the Beethoven of* Reiner, Monteux, the Leipzig Masur or Günter Wand, to name a few, rather than finding myself dead center in Daniel Barenboim's over-analytical and ultimately lackluster performances on DVD-Audio.+
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/business/my-money-my-life-the-author-as-impresario.html][2001/02/11/1270021]]) At 7:30, Diane Sawyer did a teaser for the segment, using a handle made up by one of my editors: ''We are going to meet a woman who has been called *the Martha Stewart of* /Money/, and she's going to tell us secrets about your bank.''
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165219][Robert Downey, Jr.]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/13/arts/rock-review-aftermaths-of-three-flirtations-with-fame.html][2001/02/13/1270452]]) A nasty drug habit pulled him from view, though, and he became *the Robert Downey Jr. of* /rock/.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/14/nyregion/a-money-market-millionaire-bids-to-be-nassau-s-executive.html][2001/02/14/1270741]]) Bent will turn out to be the next Republican up-and-comer or *the Ross Perot of* /local politics/.
24. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/16/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/02/16/1271080]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
25. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3048117][Edmund Morris]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/books/rendezvous-with-destiny.html][2001/02/18/1271487]]) It is sensationalistic historical fiction of the kind associated with Oliver Stone and *the Edmund Morris of* ''Dutch.''+
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/travel/pedaling-with-a-revolutionary-spirit.html][2001/02/18/1271516]]) Carlos Manuel Céspedes is *the Abe Lincoln of* /Cuba/ and father of the first Cuban revolution.
27. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37693][Paul Gauguin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/nyregion/art-gauguin-revealed-from-myth-to-muse.html][2001/02/18/1271596]]) Shedding some light on how he got to be *the Gauguin of* legend is an exhibition at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum, ''Gauguin's 'Nirvana': Painters at Le Pouldu, 1889-90.''+
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/18/nyregion/on-the-towns-going-out.html][2001/02/18/1271782]]) With publication of ''The Raven'' in 1845, Poe became *the Elvis of* /his era/.
29. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/23/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/02/23/1272831]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103767][Charlie Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/books/science-fiction.html][2001/02/25/1273726]]) Philip K. Dick was *the Charlie Parker of* /science fiction/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339][Johann Sebastian Bach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/arts/music-staging-unstageable-bach-again.html][2001/03/04/1275151]]) Stravinsky was *the Bach of* /our lifetime/.
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322][Christopher Columbus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/style/backspin-new-york-is-left-in-the-dust.html][2001/03/04/1275346]]) They are *the Columbus of* /trends/.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128799][Ricky Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/arts/critic-s-notebook-fireworks-or-fallbacks-for-a-new-river-city.html][2001/03/05/1275643]]) Arquitectonica is *the Ricky Martin of* /contemporary architecture/.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11930][Kevin Costner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/05/style/review-fashion-ford-not-just-knowing-but-actually-known.html][2001/03/05/1275653]]) Less than a decade ago Gucci was an aging symbol of playboy plenitude and scandal, which was then entrusted to Mr. Ford, whose good looks and middle-of-the-road talent led people to refer to him as *the Kevin Costner of* /fashion/.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313256][Bob Fosse]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/07/nyregion/secret-list-sets-off-st-patrick-s-parade-squabble.html][2001/03/07/1276052]]) And while he modestly demurs, Mr. Barker is widely regarded as *the Bob Fosse of* /the carefully choreographed event that consumes Midtown Manhattan with tin whistles, step dancers and some two million spectators on that invariably brisk March 17 morning/.
36. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/09/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/03/09/1276418]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504][Émile Zola]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/09/books/critic-s-notebook-snuggling-up-to-good-and-evil.html][2001/03/09/1276449]]) George P. Pelecanos arrives with the best possible recommendations from other crime writers (e.g., Elmore Leonard likes him), and with jacket copy praising him as ''*the Zola of* /Washington, D.C./'' But what he really displays here, in great abundance and to entertaining effect, is a Tarantino touch.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/09/arts/art-review-magic-turns-light-into-life.html][2001/03/09/1276451]]) William the Silent, *the George Washington of* /the Netherlands/, was killed in Delft in 1584, and in the following decades his son and successor, Prince Maurits, moved the court to The Hague, three miles away.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191999][Robert McNamara]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/magazine/the-suit.html][2001/03/11/1276853]]) His hunger for data is so voracious that I once told him he could end up as *the Robert McNamara of* /the urban education war/.
40. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7314][Igor Stravinsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/arts/music-stravinsky-rare-bird-amid-palms-composer-california-ease-if-not-home.html][2001/03/11/1276896]]) Even the gaping Hollywood Bowl embraced *the Stravinsky of* ''The Firebird.''+
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/12/sports/on-horse-racing-finally-new-faces-and-real-contender.html][2001/03/12/1277435]]) ''I think I'm *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /racing/,'' Koriner said.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229952][Brenda Blethyn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/13/arts/dance-in-review-making-it-look-easy-is-part-of-the-art.html][2001/03/13/1277631]]) Peggy Spina is *the Brenda Blethyn of* /tap/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/15/garden/human-nature-a-keeper-of-seeds-exotic-and-antique.html][2001/03/15/1277939]]) Mr. Weaver is *the Julia Child of* /long-lost vegetables/, a man who, with his passionate energy and globe-trotting discoveries, has transformed the field of heirloom vegetables and, along with it, rediscovered heirloom recipes.
44. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/16/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/03/16/1278175]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357444][Lou Gehrig]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/16/movies/film-review-saving-comrade-ryanovich-same-war-from-a-different-perspective.html][2001/03/16/1278194]]) He's like *the Lou Gehrig of* /Stalingrad/: a wholesome young man thrust half-unwittingly into the big time.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235066][Laurie Anderson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/16/arts/antiques-vivid-tales-on-screens-of-old-japan.html][2001/03/16/1278195]]) Okuni may have been Japan's first performance artist, *the Laurie Anderson of* /her day/.
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229437][Donatella Versace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/style/a-night-out-with-christina-perrin-friends-of-a-fashion.html][2001/03/18/1278801]]) Call her *the Donatella Versace of* /Downtown/, but without the permatan and peroxide.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314256][Thomas Wolfe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/21/dining/restaurants-something-for-everyone-on-every-plate.html][2001/03/21/1279458]]) He's *the Thomas Wolfe of* /chefs/.
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381982][David Chase]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/21/sports/sports-of-the-times-kentucky-and-duke-in-the-stars.html][2001/03/21/1279517]]) tournament, thereby showing signs of being *the David Chase of* /hoops/.
50. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/23/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/03/23/1279944]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
51. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/03/30/1281711]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/arts/birgit-akesson-93-creator-of-elemental-dance-solos.html][2001/03/30/1281740]]) In Paris, where she had made her debut in 1934, this reconfiguring of the body reminded critics of Cubist forms, and Ms. Akesson was called ''*the Picasso of* /Dance/.''
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q635][Cleopatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/books/adventures-in-postmortemism.html][2001/04/01/1282085]]) While Diderot spends his mornings filling up notebooks with dazzling plans for how to improve Russia, ''*the Cleopatra of* /the age/'' busies herself with the nasty business of running an unruly country.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128297][Maria Callas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/magazine/the-major-minor.html][2001/04/01/1282101]]) ''And when the press writes '*the Maria Callas of* /Cardiff/,' I'm like, that's a slightly dramatic comparison, since she was a great opera singer and I'm this little girl from Wales.
55. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/travel/in-hong-kong-the-heart-grows-fonder.html][2001/04/01/1282113]]) Between the sushi chef down below and this deity on high -- *the Madonna of* Happy Valley?+
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11142][Clarence Thomas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/nyregion/on-politics-verniero-by-his-testimony-soiled-himself-and-the-court.html][2001/04/01/1282256]]) It's not as good as being attorney general, but it sounds better than being *the Clarence Thomas of* /the New Jersey Supreme Court/.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100937][Fred Astaire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/nyregion/for-a-new-bay-ridge-a-new-tony-manero.html][2001/04/01/1282371]]) The film calls Tony ''*the Fred Astaire of* /Brooklyn/''; the star of the article is ''the very best dancer in Bay Ridge.''
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/tv/cover-story-exhaustion-injuries-what-fun.html][2001/04/01/1282451]]) They're turning me into *the Martha Stewart of* /adventure/.''
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q392][Bob Dylan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/world/trinh-cong-son-62-stirred-vietnam-with-war-protest-songs.html][2001/04/05/1283276]]) He became known internationally as *the Bob Dylan of* /Vietnam/, singing of the sorrow of war and the longing for peace in a divided country.
60. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/06/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/04/06/1283434]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76988][Rothschild]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/06/arts/art-review-out-of-the-jewish-ghetto-and-into-the-mainstream.html][2001/04/06/1283439]]) (He was called ''the painter of Rothschilds, and *the Rothschild of* /painters/.'')
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102462][James Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/06/us/a-senator-s-unaccustomed-limelight.html][2001/04/06/1283510]]) ''He is sort of *the Jimmy Stewart of* /Vermont politics/,'' said Garrison Nelson, a political science professor at Tufts University and the University of Vermont.
63. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/04/13/1285168]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76988][Rothschild]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/arts/art-guide.html][2001/04/13/1285176]]) One of the few professionally successful Jewish artists in early 19th-century Europe, Oppenheim (1800-82) was known as ''the painter of Rothschilds and *the Rothschild of* /painters/.''
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109053][Art Tatum]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/14/arts/jazz-review-when-a-mixture-of-idioms-promotes-the-cuban-sound.html][2001/04/14/1285385]]) Now and then he seems like *the Art Tatum of* /our own time/: once during Tuesday night's performance he played a single-note improvisation so fast and so long that you wondered if he'd be able to wrap it up without exploding.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232019][Erin Brockovich]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/books/interview-the-collector.html][2001/04/15/1285551]]) Nicholson Baker never set out to become *the Erin Brockovich of* /the library world/, a crusader in the stacks.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186327][Marilyn Manson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/arts/l-lars-von-trier-a-hate-film-830429.html][2001/04/15/1285680]]) I'm sorry, Mr. Rockwell, but von Trier is just *the Marilyn Manson of* /the art-film circuit/.
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76988][Rothschild]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/arts/art-guide.html][2001/04/20/1286874]]) One of the few professionally successful Jewish artists in early 19th-century Europe, Oppenheim (1800-82) was known as ''the painter of Rothschilds and *the Rothschild of* /painters/.''+ (D)
69. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/04/20/1286893]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57109][Josef Mengele]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/sports/just-following-orders-doctors-orders.html][2001/04/22/1287579]]) During a series of trials of coaches, doctors and sports officials that concluded last year, a lawyer shouted at Dr. Lothar Kipke, a senior doctor who helped administer drugs to numerous East German swimmers, ''You are *the Josef Mengele of* /the G.D.R./
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187447][Pablo Escobar]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/world/reputed-cocaine-lord-is-arrested-after-manhunt-in-colombia.html][2001/04/22/1287682]]) ''He is *the Pablo Escobar of* /Brazil/.''
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/23/nyregion/hale-house-a-source-of-local-pride-is-now-a-source-of-concern-in-harlem.html][2001/04/23/1287858]]) They also feared that the reputation of Clara Hale, whom many thought of as *the Mother Teresa of* /Harlem/, would be forever tarnished.
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35332][Brad Pitt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/sports/japan-s-baseball-idol-wins-fans-in-seattle.html][2001/04/24/1287950]]) ''He is also sort of like'' -- she paused, searching for the proper analogy -- ''*the Brad Pitt of* /Japan/.''
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79015][Clark Kent]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/nyregion/offstage-he-s-low-key-but-give-him-a-gig.html][2001/04/29/1289018]]) IT'S easy to understand why Chuck Loeb is called ''*the Clark Kent of* /jazz guitar/.''
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128297][Maria Callas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/tv/for-young-viewers-american-masterpiece-made-of-prairie-dust.html][2001/04/29/1289186]]) Though the protagonist, Thea, was modeled on Fremstad, *the Maria Callas of* /her day/, the book, said Mr. Maurer, is really a thinly disguised childhood biography of Cather.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238948][Typhoid Mary]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/magazine/same-as-he-ever-was.html][2001/04/29/1289366]]) Byrne was once called ''*the Typhoid Mary of* /the irony epidemic/,'' but that's a fundamental misreading of him.
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/travel/weekend-getaways-rescued-retreat.html][2001/04/29/1289401]]) (Not surprisingly, Downing has been described as *the Martha Stewart of* /the 19th century/.)
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83410][Cary Grant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/05/04/1290431]]) Mr. Chow comes across as *the Cary Grant of* /the blade/.+ (D)
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268056][Mr. Chips]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/nyregion/neighborhood-report-new-york-schools-students-teachers-say-goodbye-mr-chips-bay.html][2001/05/06/1291084]]) Students and Teachers Say Goodbye To *the Mr. Chips of* /Bay Ridge/
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6101][Marco Polo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/09/dining/to-refresh-a-palate-or-a-sultan-s-kiss.html][2001/05/09/1291750]]) In his journals Ibn Batuta, the 14th-century North African voyager sometimes called *the Marco Polo of* /Arabia/, relates that Persian sultans used to keep a few betel leaves by their beds to freshen their kisses in the middle of the night.
81. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/business/vicarious-consumption-boots-made-for-walking-on-pennsylvania-avenue.html][2001/05/13/1292986]]) According to ''Art of the Boot'' by Tyler Beard (Gibbs Smith, 1999), a glossy coffee-table book for the true bootist, *the Mona Lisa of* custom boots is the pair known as the Tony Lama ''El Rey III.''+
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/16/dining/the-fish-that-swam-uptown.html][2001/05/16/1293714]]) SABLEFISH is *the Cinderella of* /the seafood world/.
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7198][Ovid]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/books/metamorphoses.html][2001/05/20/1294647]]) This is *the Ovid of* the lost ''Medea''; and ''The Love-Artist'' configures it as his greatest and most terrible work.+
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140694][Alexis de Tocqueville]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/books/your-tired-your-poor-your-arctostylops.html][2001/05/20/1294662]]) What he has done, reckless soul, amounts to offering himself as *the Tocqueville of* /American biogeography/.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/style/that-cool-that-suit-sotheby-s-007.html][2001/05/20/1294977]]) ''In my opinion, Tobias is *the James Bond of* /the art market/,'' said Peter Dunham, a Los Angeles-based decorator and collector.
86. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152505][Leonard Bernstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/23/arts/music-review-musicians-who-trust-composers-under-30.html][2001/05/23/1295628]]) Running through the music are hints, it seemed, of Prokofiev and *the Bernstein of* the ''Candide'' Overture.+
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3785220][Herman Miller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/garden/furniture-fair-new-york-from-europe-a-softer-cutting-edge.html][2001/05/24/1295926]]) Mr. Koivisto is also the art director for a freewheeling event sponsored by the Swedish furniture manufacturer Offecct (*the Herman Miller of* Scandinavia) and intended to recruit en vogue designers from around the world to collaborate on innovative lounge furniture.+
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/27/nyregion/master-builder.html][2001/05/27/1296686]]) Because of his bold projects in high-profile spots, Mr. Cappelli has been called *the Donald Trump of* /Westchester/.
89. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/02/nyregion/nyc-heroes-unarmed-and-unsung.html][2001/06/02/1298224]]) WE are hip-deep in books and movies about the glories of serving the country, with the emphasis decidedly on *the Muhammad Ali of* generations, the one now known as ''the greatest.''+
90. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309905][John Nash]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/movies/film-a-portrait-of-shattered-brilliance-comes-together.html][2001/06/03/1298416]]) But only a hint of all that is reflected in a conversation with *the John Nash of* today.+
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16474][John McEnroe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/06/dining/lobsters-at-five-paces-knives-and-egos-bared.html][2001/06/06/1299308]]) He also solidified his reputation as *the John McEnroe of* the competitive food circuit.+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322555][Abner Doubleday]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/07/technology/who-s-on-first-wonder-no-more.html][2001/06/07/1299535]]) Mr. Okrent, considered *the Abner Doubleday of* /Rotisserie baseball/, said Rotisserie leagues and the later fantasy games had created a wider market for the profusion of statistics that evaluate the productivity of players more and more precisely.
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212531][Kate Moss]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/style/counterintelligence-a-model-at-70-bring-on-the-cameras.html][2001/06/10/1300495]]) ''I was *the Kate Moss of* /my day/,'' she said, ''atypical of what the public wanted, which was Brigitte Bardot.
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9061][Karl Marx]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/books/books-in-brief-fiction-poetry-690520.html][2001/06/17/1302119]]) The daughter of a discount chain store magnate (''*the Karl Marx of* /retail/''), Ella Kennedy is a neurotic, pratfall-prone doctoral student at Columbia University who is paralyzed by her eternally unfinished dissertation.
95. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7314][Igor Stravinsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/arts/writers-on-writing-before-a-rendezvous-with-the-muse-first-select-the-music.html][2001/06/18/1302679]]) Dad disliked opera and rejected most 20th-century music, but he did respect *the Stravinsky of* ''The Fire Bird,'' and he loved Mahler.+
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/24/magazine/appearances-the-makeup-lesson.html][2001/06/24/1304051]]) ''I feel like *the Susan Lucci of* /cosmetics/,'' she sighs.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/opinion/l-your-thoughts-about-pennies-989835.html][2001/06/27/1305035]]) Richard C. Wald's article about the penny's status as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /coins/ (Op-Ed, June 22) is such a charming dip into nostalgia that one hesitates to quibble.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94487][Rose Marie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/garden/three-stories-tall-and-a-hundred-deep.html][2001/06/28/1305377]]) Ms. Sobel is *the Rose Marie of* /this operation/, with her rasping voice and joking manner, supervising the kitchen and dining room and keeping track of who's playing cards with whom.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368744][Charles Atlas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/nyregion/mortimer-adler-98-dies-helped-create-study-of-classics.html][2001/06/29/1305476]]) One critic called him ''*the Charles Atlas of* /Western intellection/,'' and the writer Nelson Algren dismissed him as ''the Lawrence Welk of the philosophy trade.''
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q676226][Lawrence Welk]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/nyregion/mortimer-adler-98-dies-helped-create-study-of-classics.html][2001/06/29/1305476]]) One critic called him ''the Charles Atlas of Western intellection,'' and the writer Nelson Algren dismissed him as ''*the Lawrence Welk of* /the philosophy trade/.''
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1511][Richard Wagner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/dining/tastings-hail-to-the-sweets.html][2001/07/04/1306712]]) The weekly L'Espresso, in an appreciation, called him ''*the Wagner of* /Rock/.''
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9215][Sigmund Freud]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/08/books/the-uses-of-enchantment.html][2001/07/08/1307710]]) Three men sat in the corner: Matt the Electrician, Bobby the Contractor and Dr. Alex, *the Freud of* /the Cocktail Hour/, who had polished off a few drinks and a good portion of his psychology degree.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37970][Gregor Mendel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/movies/film-in-review-inbred-rednecks.html][2001/07/13/1309024]]) That the stupidity and cartoonlike performances of ''Inbred Rednecks'' are deliberate and consistent attests to the creative control of Joshua P. Warren, who wrote, directed, produced and scored the film besides playing the role of Clovis, one of the good ol' morons surrounding Billy Bob (Brent Ponder), *the Gregor Mendel of* /chickenhood/.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/13/movies/film-in-review-inbred-rednecks.html][2001/07/13/1309024]]) ''Inbred Rednecks'' is a lumbering slob of a movie, an American Neanderthal comedy about the adventures of a passel of rustic Southern simpletons and *the King Kong of* /fighting cocks/.
105. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1268][Frédéric Chopin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/arts/music-review-a-suite-that-softly-evokes-the-venice-of-henry-james.html][2001/07/14/1309093]]) Its alternating booms and scurryings seem almost Chopinesque: *the Chopin of* the Scherzos and Ballades, where virtuosity and outsize contrasts fuel high drama.+
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/opinion/at-home-abroad-homage-to-balanchine.html][2001/07/14/1309120]]) He was *the Mozart of* /20th-century choreography/, and he trained a school of dancers to carry out his classical revolution.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4724][Le Corbusier]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/magazine/style-best-of-the-collections-dance-this-mess-around.html][2001/07/15/1309291]]) Because Courrèges, who is called *the Le Corbusier of* /Paris couture/, made French precision hip.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182580][Shirley Temple]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/nyregion/fyi-220043.html][2001/07/15/1309454]]) Nicknamed *the Shirley Temple of* /the animal world/, the dark, winsome infant was the subject of extensive newspaper and television coverage, and drew an additional half-million people to the zoo her first year.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/style/fashionistas-ecofriendly-and-all-natural.html][2001/07/15/1309545]]) ''People say they want products that are environmentally friendly,'' said Danny Seo, 24, who has been called *the Martha Stewart of* /organic style/.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236181][Sandra Bernhard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/17/arts/dance-review-7-choreographers-pick-a-sin-and-run-with-it.html][2001/07/17/1309968]]) The wonderfully brazen performers were Tymberly Canale, Molly Hickok, Kate Johnson, Krissy Richmond and Rebecca Wisocky, *the Sandra Bernhard of* /dance/.
111. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2130627][Randall Terry]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/nyregion/icon-for-abortion-protesters-is-looking-for-a-second-act.html][2001/07/20/1310833]]) But he said that he did regret some of what he has said and done (although he would not say what), and he wondered aloud what yesterday's Randall Terry would say about *the Randall Terry of* today.+
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104372][Doris Day]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/07/20/1310870]]) ''Legally Blonde'' is made almost worthwhile by Ms. Witherspoon, who may be *the Doris Day of* /our drab age/.
113. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191050][Ambrose Bierce]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/books/staring-out-to-sea.html][2001/07/22/1311101]]) There are hints here of an irreverence bordering on blasphemy -- confirming Jeffers's kinship with the Blake who wrote the proverbs of hell, or *the Ambrose Bierce of* ''The Devil's Dictionary.''+
114. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/22/sports/basketball-liberty-eyes-home-edge-as-playoffs-approach.html][2001/07/22/1311189]]) At the Salzburg Festival, *the Sting of* a Gadfly May Endure+
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443640][Tom Daschle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/us/public-lives-a-mcgovern-liberal-who-s-content-to-stick-to-the-label.html][2001/07/23/1311597]]) THIRTY years ago he was *the Tom Daschle of* /his generation/, the Democratic senator from South Dakota talked about as a contender for the White House.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267081][Steve Rubell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/26/technology/essay-a-reunion-relax-you-re-invisible.html][2001/07/26/1312204]]) Sergio, who was not exactly a social butterfly (from what everyone else remembers), was suddenly *the Steve Rubell of* /our exclusive cyber-Studio 54/.
117. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21393565][Peter Roy Wiles]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/26/nyregion/pop-review-madonna-and-the-wiles-of-willfulness.html][2001/07/26/1312394]]) Madonna and *the Wiles of* Willfulness+
118. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104372][Doris Day]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/07/27/1312446]]) ''Legally Blonde'' is made almost worthwhile by Ms. Witherspoon, who may be *the Doris Day of* /our drab age/.+ (D)
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/nyregion/neighborhood-report-new-york-up-close-beach-books-henry-james-to-tawni-o-dell.html][2001/07/29/1312881]]) John Edward Is *the Oprah of* /the Other Side/
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271884][Norman Rockwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/movies/film-schmaltz-plus-funny-is-his-forte.html][2001/07/29/1312917]]) '' He wanted to be ''*the Norman Rockwell of* /television/.''
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35548][Paul Cézanne]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/nyregion/from-back-alleys-to-beauty-queens.html][2001/07/29/1313000]]) ''He was *the Cezanne of* /modern tattooing/,'' Mr. Hardy said in a 1996 interview that appeared in ''Tattoo History.''
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/29/us/in-latest-hardy-boys-case-a-search-for-new-readers.html][2001/07/29/1313178]]) The Hardy Boys were first conceived by Edward Stratemeyer, a prolific hack with a nose for business who become *the Henry Ford of* /children's fiction/.
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188093][Langston Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/books/arts-in-america-returning-all-the-works-of-langston-hughes-to-print.html][2001/07/31/1313506]]) ''It's still *the Langston Hughes of* the democratic voice, conversational voice, voice of working masses that everyone loves in his poetry.+
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83235][Horatio Nelson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/books/books-of-the-times-he-gave-names-to-clouds-and-renown-to-himself.html][2001/07/31/1313507]]) (The chemist Humphry Davy was particularly popular and flamboyant; the author calls him ''*the Horatio Nelson of* /dry land/.'')
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/arts/antiques-a-jewish-treasure-stays-in-israel.html][2001/08/03/1314190]]) ''He was *the Leonardo da Vinci of* /Jewish illustrators of the time/,'' said James Snyder, the director of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
126. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104372][Doris Day]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/08/03/1314193]]) ''Legally Blonde'' is made almost worthwhile by Ms. Witherspoon, who may be *the Doris Day of* /our drab age/.+ (D)
127. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/05/arts/l-gerard-mortier-salzburg-in-english-522627.html][2001/08/05/1314747]]) In response to John Rockwell's incisive, fair-minded appraisal of the Salzburg Festival [''At Salzburg, *the Sting of* a Gadfly May Endure,'' July 22], I would like to mention an overlooked aspect (not the kind that makes headlines) of the Gerard Mortier regime: bringing to the festival -- for the first time, I am told -- informative, accessible program notes in English, written by Herbert Glass and John W. Freeman, among others.+
128. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/06/sports/pro-football-giants-defense-aiming-to-oust-ravens-as-league-s-best.html][2001/08/06/1315188]]) Barrow compared the defense with *the Mike Tyson of* old.+
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12897][Pelé]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/arts/jorge-amado-dies-at-88-brazil-s-leading-novelist.html][2001/08/07/1315331]]) In a nation where soccer is king, Mr. Amado, who published his first novel at 19, was called *the Pelé of* /the written word/.
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/arts/photography-review-capturing-subjects-who-sit-extremely-still.html][2001/08/10/1316003]]) Rembrandt is *the Rembrandt of* his self-portrait come to life.+
131. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104372][Doris Day]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/10/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/08/10/1316025]]) ''Legally Blonde'' is made almost worthwhile by Ms. Witherspoon, who may be *the Doris Day of* /our drab age/.+ (D)
132. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/11/opinion/president-bush-finds-his-voice.html][2001/08/11/1316244]]) This narrow approach may bring to mind the political shrewdness of Abraham Lincoln -- not *the Lincoln of* the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but the Lincoln of the 1860 presidential campaign, who promised the South that though he would resist slavery's expansion into the territories, he would not touch it where it already existed.+
133. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/11/opinion/president-bush-finds-his-voice.html][2001/08/11/1316244]]) This narrow approach may bring to mind the political shrewdness of Abraham Lincoln -- not the Lincoln of the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but *the Lincoln of* the 1860 presidential campaign, who promised the South that though he would resist slavery's expansion into the territories, he would not touch it where it already existed.+
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106143][Samuel Pepys]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/books/the-close-reader-tina-and-harry-s-excellent-adventure.html][2001/08/12/1316420]]) It's no stretch to imagine her as the chronicler of her era -- *the Samuel Pepys of* /late-20th-century trans-Atlantic society/.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/13/business/man-who-will-edit-clinton-legendary-figure-will-try-elicit-meaningful-memoir.html][2001/08/13/1316945]]) ''But he will have found the best of whatever it is, *the Michelangelo of* /seashell art/.''
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689414][Jimmy Osmond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/17/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-734187.html][2001/08/17/1317787]]) Aaron Carter is *the Jimmy Osmond of* /today/, the little brother of a megastar (Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys) who is cashing in on cuteness.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1345775][Whitey Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/17/nyregion/boldface-names-743151.html][2001/08/17/1317844]]) I said, 'Ernest, I promise you, he'd be *the Whitey Ford of* /the concert hall/.'
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30755][Auguste Rodin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/magazine/desert-flower.html][2001/08/19/1318159]]) Rogers's friendship with Charles James, *the Rodin of* /American haute couture/, resulted in blouses, dresses, suits and gowns that form the backbone of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's costume collection.
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215359][Dean Martin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/magazine/footnotes-504637.html][2001/08/19/1318170]]) Drinking games or not, the unlikeliest bands have gone to pay their respects to *the Dean Martin of* /Waikiki/ -- Green Day, Foo Fighters and Social Distortion, among them.
140. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207][George W. Bush]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/nyregion/on-politics-he-said-what-he-meant-did-he-mean-what-he-said.html][2001/08/19/1318373]]) Echoing *the George W. Bush of* 2000, Mr. Schundler says he would seek a change in abortion laws only if there was a consensus to do so.+
141. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/nyregion/political-memo-when-is-a-democrat-not-a-democrat-perhaps-in-november.html][2001/08/19/1318561]]) But if Mr. Hevesi (or for that matter, Mr. Green) stayed on the ballot and allowed Mr. Bloomberg to win the election, as Ms. Hope suggested was possible, he could become known as *the Ralph Nader of* New York, something that could effectively end his career in his own party.+
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/21/books/authentic-vision-for-storybooks-illustrating-familiar-tales-for-a-new-generation.html][2001/08/21/1318870]]) Those near misses have earned him the joking title of *the Susan Lucci of* /illustrators/.
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298255][Rob Zombie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/24/movies/film-review-showdown-at-ok-corral-with-zombies.html][2001/08/24/1319576]]) And their leader, Big Daddy Mars (Richard Cetrone), with his leather body armor and lank, dirty hair, seems to be *the Rob Zombie of* /2176/, when ''Ghosts'' is set.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/30/books/romantic-rebel-jazz-age-two-biographies-portrait-edna-st-vincent-millay-poet.html][2001/08/30/1321081]]) She was like a rock star, *the Madonna of* /her time/.
145. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76988][Rothschild]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/arts/art-guide.html][2001/08/31/1321292]]) One of the few professionally successful Jewish artists in early 19th-century Europe, Oppenheim (1800-82) was known as ''the painter of Rothschilds and *the Rothschild of* /painters/.''+ (D)
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7742][Louis XIV of France]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/arts/art-review-they-had-expensive-tastes.html][2001/08/31/1321308]]) Kangxi -- known as *the Louis XIV of* /China/ -- reigned from 1662 to 1722 and was a patron of the arts and learning.
147. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104372][Doris Day]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/08/31/1321447]]) ''Legally Blonde'' is made almost worthwhile by Ms. Witherspoon, who may be *the Doris Day of* /our drab age/.+ (D)
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4912331][Billy Carter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/01/us/public-lives-governor-s-brother-wants-to-change-name-to-governor.html][2001/09/01/1321546]]) But by 1991, Ed Thompson had tired of all the bad decisions he had made, and of hearing the governor joke that Ed was *the Billy Carter of* /Wisconsin/.
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349690][Mel Blanc]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/magazine/this-is-it-as-happy-as-i-get-baby-nathan-lane.html][2001/09/02/1321699]]) So, this is what I am, *the Mel Blanc of* /the millennium/.''
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5182352][Crash Davis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/sports/crash-davis-82-bull-durham-model-dies.html][2001/09/04/1322330]]) That didn't exactly inspire visions of Cooperstown, but Davis was hardly the archetype of the career minor leaguer represented by *the Crash Davis of* ''Bull Durham.''+
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1837775][Jackie Collins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/09/style/pulse-fashion-s-dog-but-so-catty.html][2001/09/09/1323612]]) ''Sweetie is *the Jackie Collins of* /the canine world/,'' Mr. Welsh said.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322555][Abner Doubleday]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/us/cheek-to-muzzle-hand-to-paw-at-doggie-disco.html][2001/09/11/1324229]]) It is also the consuming passion of Ms. Ventre (pronounced VEN-tree), 58, a cheerful, raspy-voiced Brooklynite whose day job is in advertising and public relations but whose heart lies in being *the Abner Doubleday of* /dog dancing/.
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313492][Meriwether Lewis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/arts/the-outsider-the-meadowlands-forever-changed.html][2001/09/14/1324810]]) One intrepid traveler, Robert Sullivan, wrote a wonderful book, ''The Meadowlands'' (Scribner, 1998), in which he played *the Meriwether Lewis of* /Secaucus and its environs/.
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9960][Ronald Reagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/books/books-of-the-times-winning-the-business-game-with-a-few-basic-principles.html][2001/09/14/1324812]]) Mr. Welch is *the Ronald Reagan of* /the world of business/.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q277616][Louis Vuitton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/16/magazine/style-entertaining-rhapsody-in-blue-and-white.html][2001/09/16/1325259]]) In America during the Colonial and Federal periods, Chinese export porcelain was *the Louis Vuitton of* /its day/.
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484365][David Duchovny]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/nyregion/boldface-names-241695.html][2001/09/19/1326211]]) ''I was kind of *the David Duchovny of* /the show/, a shadowy government agent who knew a lot about what was going on,'' he said.
157. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104372][Doris Day]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/movies/movie-guide.html][2001/09/21/1326686]]) ''Legally Blonde'' is made almost worthwhile by Ms. Witherspoon, who may be *the Doris Day of* /our drab age/.+ (D)
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/magazine/supermogul.html][2001/09/23/1327184]]) One of the weirder analogies that journalists have drawn to place Babyface in the culture is to call him *the Bill Gates of* /the music business/.
159. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1203][John Lennon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/arts/music-waiting-for-our-john-lennon.html][2001/09/30/1329384]]) And that's what differentiates most of us from *the John Lennon of* the late 60's and early 70's: he tried to do something about it, and he challenged you to as well, even if on the smallest level possible, because he knew that the worst sin is believing that you can do nothing and then acting on that belief.+
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187033][Sally Field]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/03/nyregion/nyc-enough-already-reclaiming-the-right-to-be-grumpy.html][2001/10/03/1330428]]) Tragedy, it seems, has turned us into *the Sally Field of* /cities/.
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572735][Stanford White]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/magazine/wallace-in-wonderland.html][2001/10/07/1331322]]) ''In many ways he could be considered *the Stanford White of* /Beverly Hills/, catering to deep-pocketed film stars and executives who could well afford and appreciate his romantic architectural stage sets, in which their well-dressed and well-heeled lives are played out,'' Dunning says of Neff.
162. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13888][Luchino Visconti]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/movies/film-in-its-fiery-pages-a-french-revolution.html][2001/10/07/1331439]]) Directors like Roberto Rossellini (whose sublime ''Voyage to Italy'' is in the series), Vittorio De Sica (''The Bicycle Thief'') and *the Luchino Visconti of* ''Ossessione'' and ''La Terra Trema'' demonstrated that a new sense of drama and immediacy could be captured in the streets and in the fields, even if it meant a sacrifice in technical quality.+
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1929421][Nicholson Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/books/unto-the-hills.html][2001/10/14/1333516]]) He's *the Nicholson Baker of* /rural life/.
164. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5278747][Dinty Moore]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/14/nyregion/fyi-638820.html][2001/10/14/1333702]]) Convinced that he was the inspiration for *the Dinty Moore of* comic strip fame, Mr. Moore took the name for his restaurant, which became a popular Midtown hangout for sports heroes, celebrities and swells.+
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/sports/baseball-johnson-matches-power-with-maddux-s-finesse.html][2001/10/16/1334301]]) ''Maddux is *the Picasso of* /baseball/,'' Arizona's Luis Gonzalez said.
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231417][Barbara Walters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/17/nyregion/boldface-names-707970.html][2001/10/17/1334547]]) The parody lingers on: YUE-SAI KAN, whom People magazine once called *the Barbara Walters of* /China/ because she was a mainstay of Chinese television for years, began by introducing herself.
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1974852][Stanley Kunitz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/books/children-s-books-638455.html][2001/10/21/1335510]]) It's Jack who becomes the poet-in-residence here, *the Stanley Kunitz of* /the playground/, and his evolution from resistance to grudging pride in his own abilities is thrilling to witness.
168. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367566][Yogi Berra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/sports/backtalk-baseball-playoffs-provide-comfort-food-to-the-fans.html][2001/10/21/1335824]]) And for all we know of him, Ichiro, like *the Yogi Berra of* the 50's, could be either a wise man or an idiot savant.+
169. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367566][Yogi Berra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/21/sports/backtalk-baseball-playoffs-provide-comfort-food-to-the-fans.html][2001/10/21/1335824]]) But because we cannot merely appreciate his supernatural skill, there has been a movement to make Ichiro *the Yogi Berra of* /these times/.
170. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21506307][Joseph Boos]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/nyregion/split-in-ranks-commissioner-hears-the-boos-of-firefighters.html][2001/10/24/1336588]]) Split in Ranks: Commissioner Hears *the Boos of* Firefighters+
171. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603][Andy Warhol]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/arts/antiques-magnificence-with-the-flair-of-a-warhol.html][2001/10/26/1337039]]) William Beckford (1760-1844) was *the Andy Warhol of* /his day/, a self-conscious aesthete, compulsive collector of art and furniture, an author, designer and famous style maven.
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/28/world/a-nation-challenged-security-council-afghan-adviser-the-country-s-in-his-blood.html][2001/10/28/1337997]]) ''He was not destined to become *the Michael Jordan of* /Afghanistan/,'' recalled Thomas E. Gouttierre, the American coach of the team who is now the director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
173. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/world/rio-journal-the-singer-the-scandal-the-jailhouse-pregnancy.html][2001/10/29/1338132]]) A decade ago, Ms. Trevi, nicknamed *the Madonna of* Mexico, was one of Latin America's biggest pop stars, selling millions of records and racy posters and calendars, and talking of running for president.+
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q954975][Curt Schilling]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/sports/on-baseball-yanks-vs-aces-past-and-present-discuss.html][2001/10/30/1338371]]) Drysdale, *the Curt Schilling of* /his day/, shut out the Yankees, 1-0, in Game 3 on three hits, which happened to have been the last time before Sunday evening that the Yankees had had as few as three hits in a World Series game.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/arts/art-review-flags-mom-and-apple-pie-through-altered-eyes.html][2001/11/02/1339141]]) IN an uncanny boon for the Guggenheim, if you're cynically minded, the fortuitous arrival of the two-year-old Norman Rockwell traveling exhibition in New York after Sept. 11 gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate through altered eyes *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly dubbed him years ago.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q155626][John Singer Sargent]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/arts/art-in-review-print-fair.html][2001/11/02/1339281]]) Armstrong, for example, is featuring pictures of fashionable, late-19th-century beauties by Albert Belleroche, a virtuoso technician who was known as *the John Singer Sargent of* /lithography/.
177. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/sports/backtalk-hate-the-yankees-this-harangue-is-for-you.html][2001/11/04/1339731]]) In their case, it's from wearing pin-striped shirts bearing the numbers of the most storied players in baseball history -- the Babe (now known as *the Michael Jordan of* /his time/), Lou Gehrig (if he hadn't died under contract, he would still be playing and nobody would know Cal Ripken), Joe DiMaggio (less mysteriously dignified but more interesting since the recent publication of a sour bio), Yogi Berra (in a deserved comeback as the role model for Yoda) and Mickey Mantle (redeemed by a gutsy death and Billy Crystal's movie, ''61*'').
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133054][Sylvia Plath]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/magazine/down-mexico-way.html][2001/11/04/1339880]]) But to devotees of Kahlo -- whom the writer Christopher Goodwin describes as ''feminism's premier art icon, *the Sylvia Plath of* /the canvas/'' -- the marriage to Rivera has all the ingredients of a heroic love story.
179. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217037][Jerry Bruckheimer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/magazine/instant-comfort-rising-to-the-occasion.html][2001/11/04/1339882]]) When Robert accuses her of being *the Jerry Bruckheimer of* /cakes/, she responds that he's the Paul Thomas Anderson of cakes.
180. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25132][Paul Thomas Anderson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/04/magazine/instant-comfort-rising-to-the-occasion.html][2001/11/04/1339882]]) When Robert accuses her of being the Jerry Bruckheimer of cakes, she responds that he's *the Paul Thomas Anderson of* /cakes/.
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31073][Walter Cronkite]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/business/an-energized-brokaw-is-in-the-middle-of-the-story.html][2001/11/05/1340214]]) Some at NBC see Mr. Brokaw's  ratings edge on the evening news, and the fact that more Americans turned to him in that moment of national crisis, as evidence that he has become the leading network wise man, *the Walter Cronkite of* /his generation/.
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/arts/dance-review-finding-a-true-humanity-along-with-the-doodles.html][2001/11/08/1340953]]) The solo sensitively celebrates the gifts of Steve Humphrey, a longtime standout in the fine company and who, in a world that valued art more, would probably be *the Michael Jordan of* /dance/.
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/09/arts/art-guide.html][2001/11/09/1341232]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly dubbed him years ago, through altered eyes.
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q694774][Joseph Cornell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/movies/film-a-new-wave-auteur-without-the-rough-edges.html][2001/11/11/1341765]]) (The critic Gary Carey once described him, perceptively, as ''*the Joseph Cornell of* /French cinema/.'')
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213793][Phil Spector]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/arts/music-a-big-girl-now-or-just-posing.html][2001/11/11/1341767]]) The songs by Max Martin, *the Phil Spector of* /current teeny-pop/, sound tougher than before, even if he does keep rewriting previous Spears songs: ''Bombastic Love'' transfers ''Oops!
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348017][Bobby Orr]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/13/sports/hockey-fetisov-awed-as-he-takes-his-place-among-elite.html][2001/11/13/1342543]]) Fetisov, who has often been called *the Bobby Orr of* /European hockey/, was past his prime years as a player when he joined the N.H.L.
187. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817637][Benjamin N. Cardozo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/classified/paid-notice-deaths-shulman-major-max-l.html][2001/11/14/1342977]]) SHULMAN-Major Max L. The Yeshiva University family is saddened by the passing of a former member of *the Benjamin N. Cardozo of* Law Board of Directors and a dear and distinguished friend.+
188. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28764562][Joyce Oliveira]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/books/earth-angel.html][2001/11/18/1343772]]) Here too we can hear echoes of *the Joyce of* ''Dubliners'' -- for instance, in the story entitled ''The Sisters,'' in which the narrator feels his soul ''receding into some pleasant and vicious region.''+
189. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q269094][Richard Rodgers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/magazine/l-oh-what-a-miserable-mornin-156485.html][2001/11/18/1343845]]) Yes, I do recognize *the Richard Rodgers of* your article, but I found it a very partial portrait, a psycho-history that tends to diminish the artistry and humanity of its subject by focusing on the troubled parts of the life.+
190. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/nyregion/getting-away-from-it-all-but-still-staying-close-by.html][2001/11/18/1343937]]) ''She's *the Martha Stewart of* /the North Fork/,'' Mr. Combs said proudly, showing off the raspberry and green shaded dining room that was originally the parlor in Home Port, the oldest operating bed-and-breakfast in the town of Southold.
191. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/nyregion/a-coin-true-to-barnum-controversy-and-all.html][2001/11/18/1343943]]) He was like *the Rudy Giuliani of* /his time/: he wanted tramps and convicted criminals put to work.
192. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19543][Hans Sachs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/arts/opera-review-in-nuremberg-with-a-renewal-of-hope.html][2001/11/19/1344327]]) It has a noble presiding spirit in *the Hans Sachs of* James Morris, who is taking on the role for the first time at the Met, following recent performances in San Francisco.+
193. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/arts/art-guide.html][2001/11/23/1345277]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly dubbed him years ago, through altered eyes.+ (D)
194. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/30/arts/art-guide.html][2001/11/30/1347066]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly dubbed him years ago, through altered eyes.+ (D)
195. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/that-other-ship.html][2001/12/02/1347549]]) The Andrea Doria seems destined to go down in the annals of maritime history as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /sunken ships/.
196. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707804][Joe Torre]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/nyregion/nation-challenged-portraits-grief-victims-joe-torre-river-vale-matriarch-man-who.html][2001/12/04/1348229]]) Mr. Pena was *the Joe Torre of* /River Vale, N.J., girls sports/.
197. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12897][Pelé]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/books/arts-abroad-brazilian-author-takes-a-second-shot-at-immortality.html][2001/12/04/1348238]]) ''He is *the Pelé of* /Brazilian literature/, and he would do all of us a great service by publicizing Brazil abroad, so we have to have a space for him.''
198. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/sports/sports-of-the-times-jordan-beliveau-whispers-heard-in-tampa.html][2001/12/05/1348659]]) 's 1998 entry draft, he was touted by the Tampa Bay Lightning as ''*the Michael Jordan of* /hockey/'' -- the ultimate sports mixed metaphor.
199. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/05/sports/sports-of-the-times-jordan-beliveau-whispers-heard-in-tampa.html][2001/12/05/1348659]]) But it's doubtful that the Lightning could justify trading ''*the Michael Jordan of* /hockey/'' for Gomez and White.
200. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/arts/art-guide.html][2001/12/07/1349248]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly dubbed him years ago, through altered eyes.+ (D)
201. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43247][Ingrid Bergman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/movies/film-review-pretty-in-prank-a-spoof-of-a-lampoon-of-a-satire-of.html][2001/12/14/1351150]]) Molly Ringwald, *the Ingrid Bergman of* /Reagan-era American adolescence/, appears in a late cameo as a cynical, foul-mouthed flight attendant.
202. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725395][Tab Hunter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/movies/film-review-pretty-in-prank-a-spoof-of-a-lampoon-of-a-satire-of.html][2001/12/14/1351150]]) Mr. Hughes's movies are scrambled with their more recent derivations, especially the towering oeuvre of Freddie Prinze Jr., *the Tab Hunter of* /Clinton-era adolescence/, here impersonated by Chris Evans.
203. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603][Andy Warhol]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/14/arts/art-in-review-tadanori-yokoo.html][2001/12/14/1351320]]) Tadanori Yokoo is said to be *the Andy Warhol of* /Japan/.
204. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/books/all-the-fuhrer-s-men.html][2001/12/16/1351621]]) MACHTAN says that he wants to understand ''*the Hitler of* Auschwitz,'' and regrets that we know so little about the man who produced that greatest desecration of human history and morality.+
205. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2256877][Charles Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/sports/basketball-camby-lashes-out-at-knicks-guards.html][2001/12/22/1353447]]) Or maybe he did not like being categorized as *the Charles Smith of* /the new millennium/, the goat in the Knicks' infuriating 90-88 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
206. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1999216][Norm Crosby]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/sports/sports-media-even-this-year-absurd-stands-out.html][2001/12/28/1354869]]) CLYDE'S ENGLISH LESSONS -- With each game, MSG's Walt Frazier continues to be *the Norm Crosby of* /basketball analysts/.
207. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7302][George Frideric Handel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/arts/the-year-in-review-music-filling-handel-s-house-once-again-with-music.html][2001/12/30/1355169]]) ''And not just *the Handel of* 'Messiah' and the 'Water Music,' both of which were composed in this house, but the Handel of the operas, too.+
208. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7302][George Frideric Handel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/arts/the-year-in-review-music-filling-handel-s-house-once-again-with-music.html][2001/12/30/1355169]]) ''And not just the Handel of 'Messiah' and the 'Water Music,' both of which were composed in this house, but *the Handel of* the operas, too.+
209. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-william-hanna-b-1910-stone-age-visionary.html][2001/12/30/1355186]]) ''They became *the Henry Ford of* /TV animation/,'' says Norman Klein, a professor at the California Institute of the Arts and the author of ''Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon.''

** 2002
1. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q666931][John Lindsay]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/01/nyregion/a-fallen-star-of-the-70-s-is-back-in-the-business.html][2002/01/01/1355840]]) ''He's *the John Lindsay of* eight years ago,'' Mr. Safire wrote, ''the comer.''+
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318339][Buddy Rich]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/arts/the-pop-life-best-of-the-obscure-among-2001-s-albums.html][2002/01/03/1356220]]) In the liner notes, Mr. Lair calls the elephant Luuk Kob ''*the Buddy Rich of* /elephant percussionists/.''
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5480583][Joseph Papp]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/nyregion/moe-foner-labor-official-movement-s-unofficial-cultural-impresario-dies-86.html][2002/01/11/1358313]]) Joseph Papp, founder of the New York City Shakespeare Festival, once called Mr. Foner ''*the Joseph Papp of* /the labor movement/.''
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535129][Sol Hurok]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/nyregion/moe-foner-labor-official-movement-s-unofficial-cultural-impresario-dies-86.html][2002/01/11/1358313]]) Sometimes called *the Sol Hurok of* /labor/, Mr. Foner was widely viewed as the national leader in bringing cultural life to union members.
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276372][Lee Bontecou]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/11/arts/art-in-review-five-sculptures.html][2002/01/11/1358421]]) Ms. Noland's contribution is unquestionable, but she is becoming even more mythic in her absence, something like *the Lee Bontecou of* /her generation/.
6. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311070][Davy Crockett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/travel/golden-vineyard-country.html][2002/01/13/1358702]]) The vineyards on this particular loop include Firestone, Fess Parker (yes, *the Davy Crockett of* television fame, who owns restaurants and inns in the area, too), Zaca Mesa and Foxen vineyards, among others.+
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/arts/art-guide.html][2002/01/18/1360201]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate through altered eyes *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly named him years ago.
8. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/movies/critic-s-notebook-dance-history-leaps-to-life-in-the-archives.html][2002/01/18/1360212]]) Age appears to be no barrier, judging by ''Lauretta, *the Madonna of* the Senior Citizen Set,'' a 1988 video profile of late-starting Lauretta Caron.+
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/movies/film-anime-japanese-cinema-s-second-golden-age.html][2002/01/20/1360733]]) Mr. Miyazaki has often been called ''*the Walt Disney of* /Japan/,'' and the comparison is actually more profound than it may appear.
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/private-sector-oh-to-be-rich-and-retire-at-40.html][2002/01/20/1360936]]) Not that the onetime Harvard basketball captain, who stands 6 feet 8, shows much sign of wear, having never missed a day of work at his Bermuda-based Trout Trading Management Company, according to an aide who called him ''*the Cal Ripken of* /hedge funds/.''
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/21/world/warily-residents-return-to-lava-scarred-congo-city.html][2002/01/21/1361244]]) Lieberman Feels *the Sting of* Criticism Over Enron+
12. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/arts/art-guide.html][2002/01/25/1362079]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate through altered eyes *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly named him years ago.+ (D)
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314290][Harry Dean Stanton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/movies/film-in-review-a-walk-to-remember.html][2002/01/25/1362226]]) Although Peter Coyote, who plays her widowed father, bears a passing resemblance to *the Harry Dean Stanton of* the mid-1980's, the Reverend Sullivan hits the Bible, rather than the bottle.+
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182847][Jean Baudrillard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/magazine/an-artist-beyond-isms.html][2002/01/27/1362557]]) They repackaged him as a deconstructivist, one of those conceptual artists dismantling the language of art only to leave it in disarray, *the Jean Baudrillard of* /painting/.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1775942][Narciso Rodriguez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/style/who-said-economics-is-dismal-it-s-party-time.html][2002/01/27/1362785]]) The guests will feast on mini Maine crab cakes with curry-carrot dipping sauce, and will wash it all down with a Galet des Papes Vielles Vignes Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a southern Rhone considered so hip, so painfully du moment, that oenophiles refer to it as *the Narciso Rodriguez of* /wine/.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/27/sports/boxing-dominating-forrest-swipes-mosley-s-crown.html][2002/01/27/1362919]]) ''They say he is the best boxer in the world, *the Michael Jordan of* /boxing/,'' Forrest said.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129817][Russell Crowe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/31/books/making-books-when-acting-speaks-volumes.html][2002/01/31/1363705]]) On Saturday night a benefit will be held at Town Hall for a man many writers consider the superstar of narrators -- *the Russell Crowe of* /audiobooks/ so to speak -- Frank Muller, who was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in November.
18. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19999321][Eros]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/arts/art-architecture-an-innovator-who-was-the-eros-of-her-own-art.html][2002/02/03/1364507]]) An Innovator Who Was *the Eros of* Her Own Art+
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/health/a-conversation-with-glen-gabbard-a-rare-day-the-movies-get-mental-illness-right.html][2002/02/05/1365173]]) Russell Crowe is becoming *the John Wayne of* /our era/.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187033][Sally Field]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/nyregion/nyc-a-tough-city-surprised-by-affection.html][2002/02/06/1365504]]) A few weeks after Sept. 11, this column remarked that New York was being turned into *the Sally Field of* /cities/, dazed by the concern shown by others, much the way that the actress gushed ''You like me!''
21. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/arts/art-guide.html][2002/02/08/1366136]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate through altered eyes *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly named him years ago.+ (D)
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40912][Frank Sinatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/nyregion/james-blackwood-82-dies-major-voice-in-gospel-music.html][2002/02/10/1366690]]) Mr. Blackwood, the last surviving founding member of the famed Blackwood Brothers gospel quartet, was sometimes called *the Frank Sinatra of* /gospel music/, an allusion to his 200 albums, 9 Grammys and personal appearances from the Kennedy Center in Washington to the First Baptist Church in Moscow.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2172][Lance Armstrong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/health/cases-floss-burn-wallet-burn-and-gore.html][2002/02/12/1367053]]) I am *the Lance Armstrong of* /dental hygiene/.
24. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/arts/art-guide.html][2002/02/15/1367886]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate through altered eyes *the Rembrandt of* Punkin Crick, as a critic acidly named him years ago.+
25. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1050018][Adam Clayton Powell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/movies/tv-weekend-a-charismatic-congressman-and-the-trail-he-blazed.html][2002/02/15/1367894]]) Also given short shrift is Powell's bad-boy image and the behavior that led to it; *the Adam Clayton Powell of* this film is a victim of the Capitol's racists and reactionaries.+
26. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170241][Tarzan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/books/latin-lovers.html][2002/02/17/1368299]]) She's also *the Tarzan of* the cutesy title, her lover's pet name for her.+
27. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1818773][Paul Taylor]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/arts/dance-inspired-by-dance-a-circus-is-writing-the-poetry-of-flight.html][2002/02/17/1368374]]) And to dance lovers south of the 49th parallel, Ms. Madore's transitional ensembles may bring to mind *the Paul Taylor of* ''Aureole'' or ''Arden Court.''+
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/nyregion/city-lore-willie-sutton-urbane-scoundrel.html][2002/02/17/1368511]]) Known variously as *the Babe Ruth of* /Bank Robbers/, Willie the Actor and Slick Willie, the Brooklyn native claimed to have stolen $2 million during his 25-year career in robbery.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232999][Tara Lipinski]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/sports/olympics-figure-skating-kwan-and-cohen-entering-finale-with-momentum.html][2002/02/21/1369638]]) The long program Thursday night will determine whether Kwan will exorcise her Olympic ghosts with a gold medal or whether a fresh-faced ingénue like Cohen will become *the Tara Lipinski of* /the 2002 Winter Games/.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604][Frank Lloyd Wright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/arts/antiques-revisiting-a-danish-modernist.html][2002/02/22/1369695]]) Arne Jacobsen is *the Frank Lloyd Wright of* /Denmark/: a prolific, versatile and talented architect and designer who has been revered more after his death than he ever was in life.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6292087][José Eber]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/movies/film-review-a-vampire-searches-for-meaning-to-a-rock-beat.html][2002/02/22/1369726]]) As necromancer and hairdresser, Marius is *the José Eber of* /the netherworld/, though he doesn't take the same care with his own locks.
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/arts/art-guide.html][2002/02/22/1369825]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate through altered eyes *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly named him years ago.+ (D)
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/sports/willie-thrower-71-first-black-quarterback.html][2002/02/23/1369989]]) ''I was like *the Jackie Robinson of* /football/,'' he once said.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199801][Cindy Crawford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/o-madonna-had-a-farm.html][2002/02/24/1370127]]) ''They are *the Cindy Crawford of* /cows/,'' Duffy says.
35. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q306514][Abbie Hoffman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/profile-in-courreges.html][2002/02/24/1370133]]) ''I was,'' Blair now contends, ''*the Abbie Hoffman of* Seventh Avenue.+
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q306514][Abbie Hoffman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/profile-in-courreges.html][2002/02/24/1370133]]) Blair Sabol, from Villanova, Pa., future fashion guerrilla; a girl who would one day be known as *the Abbie Hoffman of* /Seventh Avenue/, who would pen a fashion column rife with deliciously bitchy observations no longer possible in these stifling, politically correct times.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733027][Dan Rather]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html][2002/02/24/1370183]]) Half the costumes Dean uses on NITV he keeps in the rear of his car; the other half lie crumpled up on the floor behind the cardboard map of the world that serves as a backdrop for *the Dan Rather of* /Iran/.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380865][David Frost]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html][2002/02/24/1370183]]) He's more like *the David Frost of* /Iran/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40912][Frank Sinatra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html][2002/02/24/1370183]]) The Dan Rather of Iran reads the news in front of a map of the world; *the Frank Sinatra of* /Iran/ sings in front of a sentimental pastel of a snowcapped mountain.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213430][Larry King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html][2002/02/24/1370183]]) The Persians who live in Los Angeles describe Meybodi as *the Larry King of* /Iran/, but he's more dignified than that, a throwback to an earlier age of TV talk shows.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104266][Mel Brooks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html][2002/02/24/1370183]]) Until a year ago, *the Mel Brooks of* /Iran/, which is what Dean has become, spent most of his time playing his ridiculous Iranian cleric -- he couldn't count on his Iranian audiences sharing other cultural reference points -- but now he has all sorts of new material and costumes to go with it.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53944][Rupert Murdoch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html][2002/02/24/1370183]]) He forgot his desire to become *the Rupert Murdoch of* /the Farsi-speaking world/ and set out to topple the Iranian regime.
43. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53944][Rupert Murdoch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/the-satellite-subversives.html][2002/02/24/1370183]]) He wanted to be a media mogul, *the Rupert Murdoch of* the Farsi-speaking world.+
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/magazine/style-goodness-has-nothing-to-do-with-it.html][2002/02/24/1370184]]) She was like *the Madonna of* /her time/.''
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186492][George S. Patton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/style/breath-mints-a-hot-war-for-america-s-cool-mouths.html][2002/02/24/1370394]]) Dr. D'Souza is *the General Patton of* /bad breath/.
46. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7323705][Richard Alpert]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/27/movies/film-review-where-the-ebb-and-where-the-flow-a-ram-dass-portrait.html][2002/02/27/1371099]]) The movie is smartest when it allows the era's survivors, who waged a war of ideas using their own smarts, to talk about how they all got through it and how much they relied on the film's protagonist, Ram Dass, *the Richard Alpert of* Harvard who became a pied piper of expanded spiritual consciousness.+
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353511][Derek Jeter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/sports/baseball-astros-ballpark-no-longer-enron-field.html][2002/02/28/1371430]]) Enron was once *the Derek Jeter of* /American corporations/ -- young, dynamic, full of promise.
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/01/arts/art-guide.html][2002/03/01/1371578]]) Coming after Sept. 11, the show gives everybody in town a chance to contemplate through altered eyes *the Rembrandt of* /Punkin Crick/, as a critic acidly named him years ago.+ (D)
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209921][Julius Erving]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/books/double-dribbling.html][2002/03/03/1372042]]) The most notable casualty was Connie Hawkins, an inner-city Wunderkind who should have been *the Julius Erving of* /his day/ but instead was sent home from the University of Iowa and spent his prime years banned from the National Basketball Association.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/arts/music-string-players-young-gifted-and-black.html][2002/03/03/1372118]]) I WANT to be *the Tiger Woods of* /classical music/,'' Gareth Johnson said recently.
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324719][Strom Thurmond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/weekinreview/ideas-trends-the-saints-just-keep-marching-in.html][2002/03/03/1372307]]) In the course of his 23-year pontificate, the holy father -- who is 81 and ailing but may yet turn out to be *the Strom Thurmond of* /popes/ -- has taken on both communism and the excesses of capitalism.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100948][Rachel Carson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/05/science/conversation-with-callum-roberts-biologist-decries-strip-mining-deep-sea.html][2002/03/05/1373000]]) In environmental circles, he is known as *the Rachel Carson of* /the fish world/ -- an untiring advocate of marine life conservation.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1615][Neil Armstrong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/06/dining/by-the-book-a-field-guide-to-today-s-markets.html][2002/03/06/1373384]]) ELIZABETH SCHNEIDER is *the Neil Armstrong of* /cookbook authors/.
54. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240064][Sarah Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/books/making-books-the-book-deal-as-a-cudgel.html][2002/03/07/1373659]]) It used to be that *the Sarah Hughes of* the moment had to settle for a Wheaties box.+
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q240064][Sarah Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/books/making-books-the-book-deal-as-a-cudgel.html][2002/03/07/1373659]]) The executive, Stuart Applebaum, chief spokesman for Random House Inc., said that he and his colleagues ''always brace for the inevitable flurry of media calls about our presumptive publishing plans for *the Sarah Hughes of* /the moment/.''
56. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190379][Ian McEwan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/books/white-lies.html][2002/03/10/1374489]]) Beside inducing an immediate desire to skip lunch, such details serve as a handy reminder of *the Ian McEwan of* old -- the McEwan who was dubbed ''Ian Macabre'' by the British press.+
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6660303][Liz Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/style/mirror-mirror-skipping-through-life-in-rose-colored-glasses.html][2002/03/10/1374722]]) Rilke, Emerson, Bertrand Russell, Rollo May, Helen Keller, Bill Moyers, the Dalai Lama, Goethe and Oprah form a chorus of Big Thinkers, inspirational bold-face names, making Ms. Stoddard *the Liz Smith of* /the self-help set/.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6377737][Kato Kaelin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/arts/critic-s-notebook-and-now-the-16th-minute-of-fame.html][2002/03/13/1375348]]) Speaking of Mr. Dalrymple's moments in the spotlight during the González frenzy, a Florida reporter says, ''Donato is *the Kato Kaelin of* /the Elián case/.''
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1398][Virgil]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/arts/howard-thompson-82-writer-of-mini-reviews-for-the-times.html][2002/03/13/1375383]]) He labored anonymously, but became such a local legend that in 1971 The Village Voice called him ''*the Virgil of* /TV guides/.''
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q567152][Harry Smith]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-3-17-02-band-of-outsiders.html][2002/03/17/1376298]]) and music historian who has become *the Harry Smith of* /the outsider-music world/: ''Being an outsider musician is not an aspiration,'' Chusid says.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/magazine/slouching-toward-downtown.html][2002/03/17/1376302]]) So when I first heard the music and later saw photos of Patti Smith spitting onstage in her black peg-leg pants or Deborah Harry, *the Garbo of* /the East Village/, taking the mike at CBGB, I was both confused and thrilled, recognizing for the first time that good and bad, mixed together in the right proportion, equals cool.
62. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/arts/imagine-central-park-in-saffron.html][2002/03/17/1376334]]) ''Central Park is like *the Mona Lisa of* landscape architecture,'' says Christo.+
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48259][Dick Cheney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/business/private-sector-building-success-from-parts.html][2002/03/17/1376500]]) ''He's *the Dick Cheney of* /the auto industry/,''  said Gregory L. Kagay, an industry analyst at  AutoMetrics, a consulting firm in East Hampton, N.Y. ''He's never been at the top of the industry, but if he found himself there, most people would be comfortable with that.''
64. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q734944][Clifford Odets]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/19/nyregion/fashion-diary-the-promotion-tour-known-as-fashion-week.html][2002/03/19/1376991]]) The tale of Mr. Stoute and the progress of Ms. Ortiz, in her innocent ignorance, through Paris during Fashion Week has a Jamesian quality, if you can imagine Henry James crossed with *the Clifford Odets of* ''Sweet Smell of Success.''+
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/19/sports/college-basketball-knight-leads-and-pitt-follows.html][2002/03/19/1377086]]) ''He's *the Einstein of* /point guards/,'' he said.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633][Neil Young]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/22/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-177997.html][2002/03/22/1377696]]) J Mascis is *the Neil Young of* /Generation X/.
67. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9200][Paul]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/books/the-world-court.html][2002/03/24/1378305]]) A two-story amber brick building at Monastery Place and West  Street houses the financial offices of *the St. Paul of* the Cross province, which comprises about 20 Passionist facilities on the East Coast, and the provincial archives.+
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739866][Pete Rose]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/sports/tennis-hewitt-records-his-12th-straight-victory.html][2002/03/24/1378491]]) Called by some *the Pete Rose of* /tennis/ because of his hustle, Hewitt won an ATP-high 80 matches last year and six tournaments.
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78893][Wolfgang Puck]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/dining/the-brave-new-kitchen-no-room-for-cooking.html][2002/04/03/1380928]]) David Rockwell is *the Wolfgang Puck of* /blueprints/, for example, and his name often appears before the chef's in a press release.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331742][George McGovern]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/03/nyregion/the-postpartisan-governor-defying-a-democratic-tide-pataki-seeks-a-third-term.html][2002/04/03/1380981]]) ''Pataki is *the George McGovern of* /Republicans/,'' said Paul J. Feiner, a Democratic town supervisor from Greenburgh, in central Westchester.
71. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6216590][Johannes Carl Andersen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/business/andersen-to-sell-its-tax-business-to-deloitte.html][2002/04/05/1381494]]) As for Andersen, if it survives, the firm that would emerge after the layoffs and the split-off of several businesses proposed by Mr. Volcker would be much smaller and less diversified than *the Andersen of* just a few months ago.+
72. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28764562][Joyce Oliveira]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/books/l-shorter-is-better-286370.html][2002/04/07/1381831]]) But I would argue that the tradition he belongs to is the great Irish short-story tradition of Frank O'Connor, *the Joyce of* ''Dubliners,'' Mary Lavin and, more recently, the great William Trevor.+
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/nyregion/long-island-journal-putting-out-news-for-african-americans.html][2002/04/07/1381948]]) ''Mentally, I had to say I'm *the Steven Spielberg of* /the ghetto/.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/sports/outdoors-testing-a-hypothesis-on-time-and-river-fishing.html][2002/04/14/1384103]]) I drove out to a spot on the north side of the pier and stopped to talk to some of the regulars, Jimmy Mulligan, Peter Catanese and John Francesconi, known to his friends as *the Michael Jordan of* /the Hudson/.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230143][Margaret Rutherford]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/movies/gosford-writer-is-unfazed-by-class-but-amazed-by-fame.html][2002/04/15/1384328]]) I'm kind of *the Margaret Rutherford of* /screenwriting/, and I hope people find that encouraging.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7311][Giacomo Puccini]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/arts/opera-review-a-lulu-undeterred-by-vastness.html][2002/04/15/1384330]]) Calling Berg ''*the Puccini of* /serial music/'' is not meant as a compliment.
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60206][Ariel Sharon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/us/defector-indignant-at-president-of-harvard.html][2002/04/16/1384529]]) ''Larry Summers strikes me as *the Ariel Sharon of* /American higher education/,'' Dr. West said today.
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53001][Jean-Luc Godard]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/17/movies/film-review-a-prince-chasing-woman-has-got-to-stay-flexible.html][2002/04/17/1384754]]) At first, her jerky close-ups, frequent jump cuts and sudden reversals of perspective are jarring, as if someone had turned *the Jean-Luc Godard of* the mid-1960's loose on the stage of the Comédie Française.+
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60206][Ariel Sharon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/opinion/l-cornel-west-s-remark-601284.html][2002/04/18/1384989]]) Re ''Defector Indignant at President of Harvard'' (news article, April 16): Prof. Cornel West's description of Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard, as ''*the Ariel Sharon of* /American higher education/'' reflects his lack of sensitivity toward the daily tragedy unfolding in the Middle East.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/20/nyregion/company-at-center-of-an-inquiry.html][2002/04/20/1385574]]) Tony Monteiro, a councilman from Elizabeth, said he remembered that Mr. Free, the vice president of United Gunite, a sewer-repair and road-paving company, swaggered like he was ''*the Bill Gates of* /the sewer-repair industry/.''
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3454165][Kevin Bacon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/sports/pro-basketball-inside-the-nba-stunned-by-their-swoon-bucks-look-inward.html][2002/04/21/1386084]]) The speculation keeps arising because Brown is *the Kevin Bacon of* /the N.B.A/, within six degrees of any job because of his extensive travels.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129087][Ethel Merman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/23/nyregion/tunnel-vision-that-screech-you-hear-isn-t-the-shuttle-rolling-in.html][2002/04/23/1386499]]) ''They tell me I'm *the Ethel Merman of* /the subways/.''
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60206][Ariel Sharon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/opinion/l-cornel-west-s-analogy-697680.html][2002/04/24/1386685]]) It is important for our new faculty colleague Cornel West to know that even as we welcome him back in our midst, we look with strong disfavor upon his characterization of Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard, as, in his words, ''*the Ariel Sharon of* /American higher education/'' (''Defector Indignant at President of Harvard,'' news article, April 16).
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/garden/home-home-with-no-range.html][2002/04/25/1386953]]) ''Resourcefulness -- I call it finding your inner MacGyver,'' said Danny Seo, 25, the author of ''Conscious Style Home'' (St. Martin's, 2001), who has been called *the Martha Stewart of* /organic style/.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41980][Democritus]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/27/arts/a-clown-s-life-shows-that-fame-is-just-a-pratfall.html][2002/04/27/1387477]]) Contemporary accounts called Rice ''*the Democritus of* /the sawdust/,'' the ''prince of waggery'' -- and the ''excruciating jester.''
86. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497538][Frederick Church]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/us/nation-challenged-portraits-grief-victims-iron-man-silly-rule-author-comforting.html][2002/04/28/1387593]]) Deeply committed to his faith -- he taught adult classes most Sundays at *the Frederick Church of* the Brethren -- the Iron Man was determined to become a philanthropist.+
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37001][Toshirō Mifune]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/books/meet-the-parents.html][2002/04/28/1387603]]) ''He's like *the Toshiro Mifune of* /pop music/,'' Louise earnestly informs Saul, who is not half as impressed that his ''ludicrous'' dad has bagged this young babe as he is with the way Marina looks in a tank top.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325487][Mike Wallace]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/arts/television-radio-for-the-weather-engaged-manna-from-heaven.html][2002/04/28/1387699]]) The show's main host is Jim Cantore, whose intense, in-the-field storm reporting has, in weather circles, earned him the title ''*the Mike Wallace of* /meteorology/.''
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302762][Barry Manilow]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/nyregion/work-in-progress.html][2002/04/28/1387791]]) The company calls Reader's Digest ''the most widely read magazine in the world,'' though a Canadian newspaper columnist recently referred to it as ''*the Barry Manilow of* /magazines/,'' because of its ''irresistible banality.''
90. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5497538][Frederick Church]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/us/nation-challenged-victims-iron-man-silly-rule-author-comforting-mother-solitary.html][2002/04/28/1388117]]) Deeply committed to his faith -- he taught adult classes most Sundays at *the Frederick Church of* the Brethren -- the Iron Man was determined to become a philanthropist.+
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278806][A. J. Liebling]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/business/mediatalk-slate-picks-a-successor-to-michael-kinsley.html][2002/04/29/1388164]]) Mr. Kinsley mentioned that Mr. Shafer, who has covered the media for years, might become ''*the A. J. Liebling of* /the online world/.''
92. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934214][Virginia Court]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/01/us/terror-puzzle-conspiracy-suspect-judge-won-t-recuse-herself-cancel-psychiatric.html][2002/05/01/1388649]]) In a footnote to her order today, Judge Brinkema noted that on the envelope in which Mr. Moussaoui had sent one of his motions, he had asked ''for the address of *the Virginia Court of* Appeals.''+
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324956][Conrad Hilton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/business/mohan-singh-oberoi-103-a-pioneer-in-luxury-hotels.html][2002/05/04/1389342]]) Often called *the Conrad Hilton of* /India/, Mr. Oberoi specialized in spotting and refurbishing run-down and undervalued properties.
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95026][Shirley MacLaine]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-752452.html][2002/05/05/1389495]]) Though Lawrence's memoir veers off in unexpected directions -- her discussions of spirituality and visions make her seem like *the Shirley MacLaine of* /Madison Avenue/ -- she is generally frank and forthright about what made her and her peers tick and why it helped to have, as she did, training as an actress with Sanford Meisner (''I began to theatricalize what I sold'').
95. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28764562][Joyce Oliveira]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/arts/dance-risks-and-balancing-acts-for-a-small-black-troupe.html][2002/05/05/1389534]]) Danco, as Philadanco is affectionately known, will present a wide-ranging program at *the Joyce of* works by Ron Brown, Bebe Miller and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and a premiere by a lesser-known choreographer named Christopher Huggins, a former member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.+
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/nyregion/smackdown-in-the-backyard-professional-style-wrestling-not-in-my-neighborhood.html][2002/05/07/1390209]]) He was *the Elvis of* /science/.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209518][Wayne Gretzky]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/08/sports/horse-racing-triple-crown-legend-is-gone-seattle-slew-dies-in-sleep-at-28.html][2002/05/08/1390572]]) He knew he was the Babe Ruth, the Michael Jordan, *the Wayne Gretzky of* /racing/.''
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/10/books/books-of-the-times-life-of-a-man-who-helped-define-cool.html][2002/05/10/1390925]]) With his languorous, boyish looks and whispery, androgynous voice, he was *the James Dean of* /West Coast jazz/, the brooding hipster incarnate.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36290][Diana Ross]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/movies/summer-movies-sequels-sure-but-godard-too.html][2002/05/12/1391616]]) Austin's new love interest is Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyoncé Knowles, *the Diana Ross of* /Destiny's Child/, with a 70's Afro the size of a beach ball), and he's sure to have his mind on romance.
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888302][Bob Vila]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/magazine/dig-it.html][2002/05/12/1391624]]) Redes, 45, is midsize and wry-smiled, with dark hair and a beard dusted with gray; he wears a uniform of black fleece shirt, jeans and work boots, looking a little like *the Bob Vila of* /underground construction/.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3178690][Mel Allen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/magazine/the-weight-of-an-anchor.html][2002/05/19/1393302]]) I was a total political junkie, and I thought, Wow, this is *the Mel Allen of* /news and politics/.''
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q345004][Mickey Mantle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/magazine/the-weight-of-an-anchor.html][2002/05/19/1393302]]) ''Yes, I did,'' he said and then added, ''I frequently call myself *the Mickey Mantle of* /network news/.''
103. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242735][Elaine Stritch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/theater/theater-the-tony-awards-remembering-moments-of-pure-magic-042420.html][2002/05/19/1393356]]) We see *the Elaine Stritch of* 50 years ago in her Chanel suit, and we watch both Elaine Stritches as they triumphantly feign a striptease that teases without ever stripping.+
104. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767][T. S. Eliot]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/books/states-of-be-ing.html][2002/05/19/1393786]]) Like the great German soul surveyor Rainer Maria Rilke, or *the T. S. Eliot of* the more inwardly climactic sections of his ''Four Quartets,'' Jorie Graham is a manifestly participial poet.+
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192506][Vladimir Horowitz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/24/arts/in-the-studio-with-real-flesh-not-perfect-or-prurient.html][2002/05/24/1394770]]) De Kooning was *the Vladimir Horowitz of* /the brushstroke/.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/27/arts/ballet-review-a-donkey-in-toe-shoes-and-fairies-all-aflutter.html][2002/05/27/1395761]]) Frederick Ashton was *the Shakespeare of* /ballet/ -- not the playwright who composed revenge tragedies, but the poet who wrote love sonnets.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80739][Charlton Heston]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/books/cooking.html][2002/06/02/1396996]]) Ted Nugent is, of course, the 70's-era gonzo rock star (''Cat Scratch Fever'') who's become *the Charlton Heston of* /the VH1 ''Behind the Music'' generation/.
108. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21456349][Marguerite Evans]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/style/weddings-meredith-greene-john-megaw.html][2002/06/02/1397159]]) He is a son of *the Marguerite Evans of* Carmel, Calif., and the late Henry W. Megaw, and the stepson of Robert Evans.+
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230728][Vera Wang]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/02/style/pulse-a-prospective-baby-makes-3.html][2002/06/02/1397208]]) For nine-month brides going the whole nine yards, Liz Lange is arguably *the Vera Wang of* /the maternity bridal world/, offering form-fitting custom-made silk dresses for brides and bridesmaids ($335 to $450) with matching wraps or coats.
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q538009][Byron Scott]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/sports/pro-basketball-scott-returns-to-city-of-his-winning-ways.html][2002/06/05/1397996]]) He wasn't here to be *the Byron Scott of* the 80's.+
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2599][Paul McCartney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/07/arts/dee-dee-ramone-pioneer-punk-rocker-dies-at-50.html][2002/06/07/1398576]]) He was *the Paul McCartney of* /the Ramones/.
112. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463673][Regis Philbin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/arts/television-radio-when-the-future-of-tv-was-a-youngster-yelling-pow.html][2002/06/09/1398945]]) The prizes offered to players would make *the Regis Philbin of* ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' blush.+
113. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/sports/sports-of-the-times-tyson-is-humbled-but-his-carnival-continues.html][2002/06/10/1399464]]) Tyson's loyalists probably wonder if the Lewis of Saturday night would have beaten up *the Tyson of* the early years of his career.+
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/nyregion/artist-s-fame-is-fleeting-but-dog-poker-is-forever.html][2002/06/14/1400433]]) The depths of Coolidge's anonymity surprise Mrs. Acheson; after all, she said, ''He is supposed to be *the Michelangelo of* /the dog world/.''
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1346641][Johnnie Cochran]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/nyregion/portraits-grief-victims-family-bike-rides-wise-sayings-snorkeling-red-roadster.html][2002/06/16/1401116]]) Although James M. Roux, 42, stoutly described his partner as ''*the Johnnie Cochran of* /Katmandu/,'' Mr. Roux himself, a spirited litigator, outdoorsman and windmill-tilter, made impracticality an art form.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/17/business/mediatalk-after-a-gloomy-prognosis-a-loss-at-random-house.html][2002/06/17/1401325]]) Peter Olson, the chairman of Random House, played *the Cassandra of* /the book business/ last fall, warning at every opportunity that a prolonged downturn was gripping the industry.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/nyregion/our-towns-now-the-geese-must-watch-their-step.html][2002/06/19/1401789]]) It's not easy being an agent for *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /suburban animals/.
118. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4605][Sarah Bernhardt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/movies/film-review-within-a-florida-civics-lesson-rich-stories.html][2002/06/21/1402178]]) Marly's grandly histrionic mother, Delia Temple (Jane Alexander), known as ''*the Sarah Bernhardt of* /Delrona Beach/,'' runs the community theater and is a devout environmentalist.+ (D)
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4605][Sarah Bernhardt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/21/movies/film-review-within-a-florida-civics-lesson-rich-stories.html][2002/06/21/1402238]]) Marly's grandly histrionic mother, Delia Temple (Jane Alexander), known as ''*the Sarah Bernhardt of* /Delrona Beach/,'' runs the community theater and is a devout environmentalist.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128121][Mick Jagger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/22/arts/music-review-subway-musicians-without-the-subway.html][2002/06/22/1402457]]) He carried off a frantic, spidery version of Vivaldi's ''Winter'' concerto (abridged) and followed it with some remarks about how Paganini was ''*the Mick Jagger of* /the 19th century/.''
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169452][Shaquille O'Neal]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/business/a-cheerleader-for-a-company-in-a-midlife-funk.html][2002/06/23/1402939]]) While technology spending has stagnated, the company remains *the Shaquille O'Neal of* /its core markets/, dominating the competition.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/sports/pro-basketball-inside-the-nba-west-is-guarding-his-next-move.html][2002/06/23/1403001]]) Next to Jerry Krause, this was *the Greta Garbo of* /team executives/.
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44306][Salman Rushdie]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/world/afghan-women-in-political-spotlight.html][2002/06/26/1403602]]) A newspaper published two days before the loya jirga began on June 11 quoted Dr. Samar as saying she did not believe in Islamic Shariat law -- a misquote, she says -- and called her *the Salman Rushdie of* /Afghanistan/, intimating she deserved the same death threat that the British author earned for alleged blasphemy in his work.
124. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2312834][Algebra]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/29/books/looking-for-x-algebra-leadership-impact-criterion-charisma-experts-ransack.html][2002/06/29/1404338]]) Looking for X in *the Algebra of* Leadership+
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/books/the-life-and-death-of-cool.html][2002/06/30/1404479]]) In his youth, Baker was described as ''*the James Dean of* /jazz/,'' but he was really its Elvis.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353511][Derek Jeter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/nyregion/summer-of-77.html][2002/06/30/1404747]]) ''I was *the Derek Jeter of* /the 70's/,'' he remembered last year, leaning against a batting cage at the Yankee camp in Florida.
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/sports/volleyball-armato-brings-fun-and-fans-to-beach.html][2002/07/01/1405095]]) ''Kiraly, he's like *the Michael Jordan of* /the sport/,'' said Armato, who founded the A.V.P.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450619][Diana Vreeland]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/04/garden/hearst-drops-editor-of-house-beautiful.html][2002/07/04/1405644]]) The interior designer Jeffrey Bilhuber called her *the Diana Vreeland of* /shelter magazines/.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231417][Barbara Walters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/05/nyregion/boldface-names-861707.html][2002/07/05/1405903]]) Ms. Kan, whom People magazine once called *the Barbara Walters of* /China/ because she was a mainstay of Chinese television for years, had another engagement on Miss Moffo's birthday -- a television appearance.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/sports/sports-media-memories-of-williams-spanning-the-decades.html][2002/07/07/1406524]]) By then, he was more like *the John Wayne of* /the post/-''True Grit'' period, more melancholy and open to adulation than in his heyday.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231178][Gloria Steinem]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/09/books/books-of-the-times-seeing-mary-magdalene-as-one-of-the-apostles.html][2002/07/09/1406824]]) The author goes a bit overboard with her feminist fable, turning Mary into *the Gloria Steinem of* /Galilee/.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1413][Nero]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/world/european-union-to-tackle-overhaul-of-farm-subsidies.html][2002/07/11/1407344]]) One banner described Mr. Fischler as ''*the Nero of* /European agriculture/.''
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325374][Phil Mickelson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/sports/mule-racing-black-ruby-is-no-secretariat.html][2002/07/11/1407365]]) ''I own *the Phil Mickelson of* /mules/,'' said Taz's owner, Don Jacklin.
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76478][Kirsten Dunst]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/movies/critic-s-notebook-a-restored-german-classic-of-futuristic-angst.html][2002/07/12/1407494]]) In the depths, a young woman, Maria (Brigitte Helm, *the Kirsten Dunst of* /the Weimar Republic/), prophesies the coming of a messianic figure called the Mediator, whose name sums up the temperate, reformist message buried in the movie's sweep and bombast.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/travel/food-monsieur-vrinat-s-monument.html][2002/07/16/1408731]]) He is *the Tiger Woods of* /restaurateurs/, a Cesar Ritz for our times, and Taillevent is his monument.
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5608][Eminem]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/opinion/swastikas-for-sweeps.html][2002/07/17/1408897]]) They don't want to see a glossy, sympathetic ''Lifestyles of the Reich and Fascist'': a cute, brooding teenage Hitler painting away in a garret, listening to Wagner (*the Eminem of* /his age/), hanging at the cafes in Vienna with Wittgenstein and Freud, accumulating disappointments and rejections as raw material for ''Mein Kampf,'' roiled by sexual confusion, frightened by the advances of an amorous milkmaid, and like everyone else then and now, steamed at the French.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106465][John Grisham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/books/making-books-the-best-stealer-list.html][2002/07/18/1409060]]) In downtown Manhattan, for instance, it's the Beat poets and writers: Kerouac (*the John Grisham of* /the Beats/, when it comes to theft popularity), Bukowski, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Hunke.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40523][Julia Roberts]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/nyregion/bollywood-farce-indian-actress-and-family-are-detained.html][2002/07/18/1409213]]) Her fans in Kerala, in southern India, consider her *the Julia Roberts of* /Malayalam-language films/.
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/19/us/ethics-panel-votes-to-oust-ohio-democrat.html][2002/07/19/1409434]]) By the Bay in Queens, *the Sting of* a Fatal Boat Crash Lingers+
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314712][Barry Bonds]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/arts/music-review-a-pops-concert-by-masur-and-why-not.html][2002/07/20/1409523]]) Protracted farewells are traditionally the province of opera singers, but as he has geared up to leave the directorship of the New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur has become *the Barry Bonds of* /goodbyes/.
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180099][Margaret Mead]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/magazine/the-pop-alchemist.html][2002/07/21/1409735]]) Shaiman calls Midler ''*the Margaret Mead of* /popular music/.''
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929985][Alex Trebek]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/arts/television-radio-jeopardy-endures-by-acing-the-comfort-category.html][2002/07/21/1409783]]) In a recent newscast about a fundraiser he heard Tom Hanks say, ''I'm *the Alex Trebek of* /this event/.''
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/sports/horse-racing-pletcher-and-velazquez-escaping-big-shadows.html][2002/07/25/1410921]]) He learned much from Lukas, who statistically is *the Michael Jordan of* /horse racing/, and he is grateful.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83338][Robin Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/dysfunction-for-dollars.html][2002/07/28/1411475]]) He segues from his comic impersonations (''I'm *the Robin Williams of* /child abuse/,'' Pelzer says) into stories of his own abuse and ends with the platitude, ''Everyone has issues.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/arts/music-a-man-of-his-time-voices-for-all-time.html][2002/07/28/1411495]]) The tens of thousands of songs Lomax recorded himself -- across the United States and in rural Italy, the Caribbean, Great Britain and Spain -- and the many others he worked to analyze and disseminate made him *the Johnny Appleseed of* /folk revivalists/.
146. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/arts/art-architecture-a-disturbing-jewelry-artist-with-the-midas-touch.html][2002/07/28/1411508]]) Last year, he made a piece based on another Piero fresco in Tuscany, ''The Madonna del Parto'' (*the Madonna of* Birth): a pregnant Mary dressed in robes that split open over her belly.+
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311141][John Ashcroft]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/nyregion/neighborhood-report-harlem-a-negligee-for-murals-in-a-harlem-courthouse.html][2002/07/28/1411659]]) ''Does anyone really want to be *the John Ashcroft of* /Harlem/?''
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/sports/millie-deegan-82-pioneer-in-women-s-baseball-league.html][2002/07/28/1411767]]) Babe Ruth, who was at the arena, posed with her and squeezed her biceps; she was called ''*the Babe Ruth of* /women's softball/.''
149. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/nyregion/paging-sam-spade-a-gold-coin-fetches-7.6-million-at-auction.html][2002/07/31/1412401]]) ''This is *the Mona Lisa of* coins,'' said Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World, the largest weekly coin publication, with a circulation of 85,000.+
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192496][Robert Fulton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/travel/driving-where-the-chitty-chitty-meets-the-bang-bang.html][2002/08/02/1412817]]) The 1946 Airphibian, one of the more successful efforts, was made by Robert Edison Fulton -- an inventor, though no relation to either *the Robert Fulton of* steamboat fame or to Thomas Edison.+
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106465][John Grisham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/business/off-the-shelf-corporate-chicanery-with-a-page-turning-plot.html][2002/08/11/1415137]]) With fortunes made and lost in recent years as capitalism has gone global, there has been no shortage of writers aspiring to be *the John Grisham of* /Wall Street/, everyone from old-timers like Michael Thomas to newcomers like Scott Lasser.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317122][Tito Puente]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/17/movies/film-review-a-club-the-mob-a-hit-and-a-miss-all-on-the-moon.html][2002/08/17/1416409]]) Luis Guzmán is all lowlife sparkle as an admiring small-time thief who calls Pluto *the Tito Puente of* /smugglers/.
153. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9191][René Descartes]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/books/the-second-oldest-profession.html][2002/08/18/1416548]]) Among those names are Erasmus, Montaigne (''My trade and my art is living''), *the Descartes of* the ''Meditations,'' Kant (''The idea of wisdom must be the foundation of philosophy''), Emerson, Marx, Nietzsche, William James, Wittgenstein, Jaspers.+
154. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299211][Pierre Cardin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/bubbles-in-paradise.html][2002/08/18/1416592]]) But should I be *the Pierre Cardin of* today, or full of hope like I was at 17 years of age?+
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/nyregion/long-island-journal-a-hunka-hunka-burning-elvis-imitators.html][2002/08/18/1416595]]) Yes, indeed, Christian Dior was *the Elvis of* /haute couture/.
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1276][Leonard Cohen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/22/books/books-of-the-times-gliding-through-europe-cloaked-in-diffident-charm.html][2002/08/22/1417676]]) The wry, sexy melancholy of his observations would be seductive enough in its own right -- he is *the Leonard Cohen of* /the spy genre/ -- even without the sharp political acuity that accompanies it.
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/25/sports/baseball-giambi-proves-patience-does-go-a-long-way.html][2002/08/25/1418681]]) In spring training, Alex Rodriguez said Giambi would be ''*the Babe Ruth of* /New York/'' and called him ''the best left-handed hitter I've ever played against, period.''
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359416][George Hamilton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/sports/2002-us-open-preview-almost-any-setting-can-be-the-birthplace-of-a-star.html][2002/08/26/1418809]]) They can remember when *the George Hamilton of* /tennis/, the tanned Nick Bollettieri, could be spotted drinking in the sunshine as he eyed academy stars like Andre Agassi and Jim Courier during a golden era of paint-by-number instruction.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333419][Luther Burbank]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/29/garden/garden-notebook-turning-cactuses-into-connecticut-yankees.html][2002/08/29/1419367]]) Mr. Spain, 81, is *the Luther Burbank of* /winter-hardy cactuses in the Northeast/.
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106662][John Lydon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/31/books/shelf-life-in-those-days-too-blood-and-sex-could-make-a-best-seller.html][2002/08/31/1419823]]) ''Then came Matthew Lewis, the genre's first punk, *the Johnny Rotten of* /the Gothic novel/.''
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/31/world/the-saturday-profile-the-first-afronaut-plans-a-mission-back-home.html][2002/08/31/1419828]]) As a youthful entrepreneur challenging global business giants, Mr. Shuttleworth was lauded as *the Bill Gates of* /South Africa/.
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/04/movies/critic-s-notebook-a-reporter-who-answers-when-opportunity-knocks.html][2002/09/04/1420809]]) Mr. Douglas, with his seething hostility, is *the Mike Tyson of* /actors/.
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316706][Sugar Ray Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/04/movies/critic-s-notebook-a-reporter-who-answers-when-opportunity-knocks.html][2002/09/04/1420809]]) He was the best -- *the Sugar Ray Robinson of* /comedy-drama/.
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/books/stardom-is-its-own-reward.html][2002/09/08/1421681]]) ''I HAVE, you know, in my time been called -- in print -- *the Michelangelo of* /confectioners/,'' says the proprietor of a Los Angeles store where the movie star Kaye Wayfaring buys white-chocolate-dipped strawberries.
165. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5588][Frida Kahlo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/movies/the-new-season-movies-nothing-like-the-icon-on-the-fridge.html][2002/09/08/1421800]]) With a mustache instead of sideburns, she has become an Elvis of the art world: disembodied from her real life and the most resonant qualities of her art, *the Frida Kahlo of* the early 21st century is now available in a handy, manageable key-chain size.+
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1111386][Robert Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/arts/music-anybody-listening-a-hapless-history.html][2002/09/15/1423720]]) The general assumption was, and remains, that Judson's mania for power -- with his empire of orchestras, soloists and conductors, he was *the Robert Moses of* /American classical music for half a century/ -- predisposed him toward conductors he could mentor or otherwise control.
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/opinion/the-german-problem.html][2002/09/19/1424847]]) His semi-conservative opponent, Edmund Stoiber, tut-tuts about anti-Americanism but is afraid to take a stand against *the Hitler of* /the Persian Gulf/.
168. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9588][Richard Nixon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/books/books-of-the-times-new-detail-about-the-bickering-builders-of-the-bomb.html][2002/09/20/1425037]]) In addition to Oppenheimer, Mr. Herken has chosen to focus on two other prominent scientists who played crucial roles in nuclear research: Ernest O. Lawrence, the Nobel laureate, who invented the cyclotron and presided over Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, which looked to benefit from lucrative government financing; and Edward Teller, the Hungarian émigré physicist, who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and whose dark, brooding personality caused Richard Rhodes to dub him ''*the Richard Nixon of* /American science/.''
169. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531224][Helen Mack]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/world/the-saturday-profile-finding-despair-then-faith-in-a-sister-s-murder.html][2002/09/21/1425305]]) The Helen Mack of 12 years ago has nothing to do with *the Helen Mack of* today.''+
170. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229702][Ham]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/nyregion/c-corrections-011916.html][2002/09/22/1425650]])                 Where Is *the Ham of* Yesteryear?+
171. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128121][Mick Jagger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/arts/dance-like-rock-stars-abroad-like-hmm-yes-at-home.html][2002/09/22/1425730]]) But with his turbulent energy, penetrating gaze and wiry physique, Mr. Pendleton, 53, could be considered *the Mick Jagger of* /the dance world/.
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107190][Peter Pan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/22/style/good-company-and-party-favors-for-all.html][2002/09/22/1425945]]) Slight of build with a preternaturally boyish face, Dr. Brandt, 53, is *the Peter Pan of* /cosmetic self-improvement/, a man whose puckish charm is rivaled only by his flair for self-promotion.
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/sports/sports-of-the-times-defining-fair-play-is-tricky.html][2002/09/27/1426969]]) Television is *the Johnny Appleseed of* /bad manners/, displaying assorted baiting, gesturing and mouthing off -- and that is just from the talk-show hosts in the studios.
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11212217][Percy Foreman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/us/warren-e-burnett-is-dead-colorful-lawyer-was-75.html][2002/09/28/1427197]]) He insisted that he was not *the Percy Foreman of* /Odessa/, but that Mr. Foreman, the famed lawyer, was the Warren Burnett of Houston.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381178][Bob Barker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/nyregion/long-island-journal-ding-dong-ready-for-a-shopping-spree.html][2002/09/29/1427456]]) Aside from his news job, Mr. Hoff is *the Bob Barker of* /a new reality game show/, ''Spend It Fast,'' produced by Atlas Media for the Jericho-based Women's Entertainment Network.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133054][Sylvia Plath]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/books/not-so-elementary-watson.html][2002/09/29/1427827]]) More recently Franklin has become, as Maddox puts it, ''*the Sylvia Plath of* /molecular biology/.''
177. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137934][Abbot Suger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/arts/art-review-the-material-made-ethereal.html][2002/10/04/1428916]]) Arranged in a small jewel-box gallery, these include a 13th-century bronze aquamanile -- a ceremonial, usually figurative pitcher -- in the form of a horseman, and the chalice of *the Abbot Suger of* Saint-Denis, a fluted sardonyx cup from from Ptolemaic Egypt that the abbot had mounted in jewel-studded gold.+
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79904][J. D. Salinger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/sports/yacht-racing-playground-of-billionaires.html][2002/10/06/1429732]]) Bertarelli takes traditional Swiss discretion to new levels: as the only syndicate head who refuses to give interviews, he is *the J. D. Salinger of* /the docks/.
179. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/business/media-business-advertising-buick-uses-mid-20th-century-designer-lure-younger.html][2002/10/10/1430643]]) There is also a series of print ads, including a six-page magazine insert that thumbnails Mr. Earl's history and labels him ''*the da Vinci of* /Detroit/.''
180. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633][Neil Young]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-314773.html][2002/10/11/1430880]]) J Mascis is *the Neil Young of* /Generation X/.+ (D)
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38203][Helen Keller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/magazine/appearances-deconstructing-duffy.html][2002/10/13/1431340]]) Referring to me as *the Helen Keller of* /fashion/, they vowed to be my Annie Sullivans.
182. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209989][Hubert Humphrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-10-13-02-common-talk.html][2002/10/13/1431368]]) It was a diffused, impersonal form of populism -- a different kind of ''versus'' -- that had the flavor of *the Hubert Humphrey of* the 1950's rather than of Huey Long, even if Gore turned out to be no Humphrey.+
183. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129817][Russell Crowe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/movies/on-the-seas-again-guided-by-a-star.html][2002/10/13/1431398]]) This was not *the Russell Crowe of* tabloid reports, scowling at reporters and engaging in beer-fueled fisticuffs around the globe.+
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168491][Charlie Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/world/conflict-in-oslo-over-a-pointed-peace-prize.html][2002/10/14/1431931]]) Since then, Mr. Carter has been *the Charlie Brown of* /Nobel candidates/, nominated almost every year.
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/16/opinion/black-heart-white-van.html][2002/10/16/1432309]]) We know that Virginia's governor, Mark Warner, is bucking to be *the Rudy Giuliani of* /the crisis/; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is trying to capitalize on her personal history with tragic gun killings to save her limp gubernatorial bid; Democrats in Congress tried to capitalize by rushing to pass a small-bore gun control measure that was going to pass anyway; President Bush and the G.O.P.
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6101][Marco Polo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/18/nyregion/for-2-world-plate-bronx-chef-culinary-travel-guide-for-elderly-diners.html][2002/10/18/1432877]]) Mr. Zurita, a professional chef who has clearly earned the title of *the Marco Polo of* /the mess hall/, gave it a moment's thought, then added Ethiopian, Greek, Israeli, Kenyan, Mexican, Portuguese, Dominican and Thai.
187. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/books/the-tall-woman-from-small-britain.html][2002/10/20/1433181]]) A likable seducer, he enjoyed a reputation as ''*the Bill Clinton of* /Sudan/.''
188. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103949][Buster Keaton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/arts/dance-serving-up-laughter-as-the-main-course.html][2002/10/20/1433258]]) Robbins himself was a master of baggy-pants comedy in his Broadway days, and had it suited him, he probably could have become *the Buster Keaton of* /ballet/ as well.
189. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184746][Jane Goodall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/arts/art-architecture-rock-s-house-photographer.html][2002/10/20/1433275]]) I feel like I'm *the Jane Goodall of* /rock photography/.''
190. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/business/the-angry-appeal-of-eminem-is-cutting-across-racial-lines.html][2002/10/28/1435756]]) Only three years ago, he was derided as ''*the Elvis of* /hip-hop/,'' or a raw version of the 1980's flattopped performer Vanilla Ice (no comparison could be worse on these streets).
191. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q444][Lech Wałęsa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/world/leftist-handily-wins-brazilian-presidential-race.html][2002/10/28/1435844]]) Freed in 1980 after a worldwide campaign in which he was called ''*the Lech Walesa of* /Brazil/,'' Mr. da Silva, along with a group of intellectuals, labor leaders, Liberation Theology advocates and environmentalists soon thereafter founded the Workers' Party.
192. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2777857][Rosie Ruiz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/nyregion/our-towns-a-quaint-state-where-rivals-really-debate.html][2002/10/30/1436301]]) Former Senator Frank Lautenberg, *the Rosie Ruiz of* /the New Jersey race/, agreed to just two debates.
193. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169452][Shaquille O'Neal]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/sports/pro-football-push-comes-to-shove-and-strahan-plays-on.html][2002/11/01/1436755]]) But there was no flag on the play, one of many that have fueled the belief in the Giants' organization that in the first season after Strahan broke the record for sacks, rules do not seem to apply when it comes to stopping him -- as if Strahan has become *the Shaquille O'Neal of* /the N.F.L./
194. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/books/jeremiah-with-a-macarthur-grant.html][2002/11/03/1437108]]) Is he *the Cassandra of* /our age/, prophesying disasters to which we, like the citizens of doomed Troy, willfully stop our ears?
195. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298658][David Spade]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/magazine/in-the-land-of-the-insomniac-the-narcoleptic-wants-to-be-king.html][2002/11/03/1437138]]) One longtime senior network executive says of ABC's gamble: ''To me this guy is *the David Spade of* /late night/.
196. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41871][Paul Newman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/03/arts/holiday-movies-santa-james-bond-and-other-old-friends.html][2002/11/03/1437189]]) Amitabh Bachchan, *the Paul Newman of* /Bollywood/, stars as one of six complete strangers who team up to commit the perfect crime.
197. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6105295][J. D. Power]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/04/business/new-venture-hopes-to-offer-some-peace-of-mind-to-ceo-s.html][2002/11/04/1437699]]) ''I'm not saying we'll be *the J. D. Power of* /corporate governance/,'' said Jack Kemp, the former Cabinet secretary and chairman of the new venture, referring to the reviewer of automobiles.
198. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2903144][Bill Buckner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/us/the-2002-elections-the-pollster-man-at-the-uneasy-helm-of-voter-survey-service.html][2002/11/07/1438644]]) But today Mr. Savaglio is *the Bill Buckner of* /American politics/.
199. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/08/sports/baseball-japan-s-home-run-king-is-leaving.html][2002/11/08/1438902]]) ''He's *the Cal Ripken of* /Japan/, but with more punch,'' said Marty Kuehnert, a sports broadcaster and longtime resident in Japan.
200. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/nyregion/belmont-journal-keeping-old-age-at-bay-with-a-broomstick.html][2002/11/10/1439577]]) Mr. Stephens is quick to say that he is *the Jackie Robinson of* /stickball/, having been the first white man to play on an otherwise all-black team.
201. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7902373][Utah Jazz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/13/sports/pro-basketball-knicks-make-aging-jazz-look-good.html][2002/11/13/1440308]]) This was not *the Utah Jazz of* the 1990's.+
202. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/nyregion/tasted-any-good-books-lately-read-any-good-recipes.html][2002/11/17/1441244]]) Over the roar of laughter and loud party prattle, Ms. Haan, whom members refer to as ''*the Martha Stewart of* /the bunch/,'' opened the neatly penned journal of memories she has kept since the club started.
203. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285536][Imelda Marcos]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/nyregion/long-island-journal-putting-together-chronicles-of-their-lives.html][2002/11/17/1441248]]) ''We all become *the Imelda Marcos of* /paper/,'' Ms. Kavanaugh said.
204. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48259][Dick Cheney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/23/nyregion/a-sermon-to-the-jury-why-i-deserve-to-live.html][2002/11/23/1442995]]) He was *the Dick Cheney of* /ancient Egypt/.
205. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219862][Raymond Carver]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/opinion/the-boomers-crooner.html][2002/11/24/1443301]]) They rhapsodize that his amazing vignettes of dysfunctional families make him *the Raymond Carver of* /hip-hop/.
206. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/magazine/oversimulated-suburbia.html][2002/11/24/1443485]]) (Already one player has become *the Donald Trump of* /the online Sims world/, acquiring enough money and property to open a string of coffee shops, stores and clubs.)
207. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5202642][César Tovar]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/27/sports/baseball-mets-offer-ticket-prices-to-suit-every-occasion.html][2002/11/27/1444117]]) But there are nuances: a great team like the Atlanta Braves will cost more to watch on weekends than on weeknights, and a middling team like the Philadelphia Phillies has become a utilityman of sorts, *the César Tovar of* /the schedule/, moving through three ticket tiers depending on the date.
208. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366563][Dick Clark]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/29/movies/hairspray-actors-all-have-stories-suddenly-people-are-listening.html][2002/11/29/1444510]]) Corny Collins is ''*the Dick Clark of* /Baltimore/,'' Mr. Thorell said.
209. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q587455][Barry Diller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/30/business/a-tv-talk-show-with-a-sales-twist.html][2002/11/30/1444713]]) One might think of him as *the Barry Diller of* /Jackson Hole, Wyo./, where Mr. Blum recently moved with his wife, Audrey, a former model, and their twins.
210. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171556][Yves Saint Laurent]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/magazine/a-spaghetti-dress-for-world-peace.html][2002/12/01/1444800]]) ''But Miguel was being heralded as *the Yves Saint Laurent of* /American fashion/.
211. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/science/experts-question-authenticity-of-bone-box-for-brother-of-jesus.html][2002/12/03/1445435]]) When the existence of the limestone bone box, or ossuary, was announced five weeks ago, a French scholar asserted that the inscription -- ''James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus'' -- most probably referred to *the Jesus of* the New Testament.+
212. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79904][J. D. Salinger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/arts/trudeau-chat-offers-koppel-and-his-style-a-showcase.html][2002/12/03/1445460]]) But Mr. Trudeau, who has not given a sit-down television interview in 31 years, is *the J. D. Salinger of* /comic strip artists/.
213. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/07/world/world-briefing-the-americas-brazil-star-extradited-for-sex-abuse-trial.html][2002/12/07/1446605]]) The singer, known as *the Madonna of* Mexico, was an icon of rebellion among young girls until she was accused of luring girls into sexual relationships with her manager.+
214. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4700][Claude Debussy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/arts/opera-review-styron-s-tormented-characters-revealed-through-music.html][2002/12/09/1447191]]) In his richly chromatic, acutely rendered harmonic vocabulary, you hear echoes of Mahler, Strauss, *the Debussy of* ''Pelléas et Mélisande,'' the Berg of ''Wozzeck,'' the neo-Classical Hindemith.+
215. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311719][Adlai Stevenson II]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/world/threats-and-responses-strategy-a-tough-case-how-to-convict-hussein.html][2002/12/09/1447293]]) The administration is betting that Mr. Saadi and his colleagues together will ultimately prove to be *the Adlai Stevenson of* /this drama/, that they will unintentionally provide the road map to continuing weapons projects, or false claims that those projects have been dismantled.
216. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7314][Igor Stravinsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/nyregion/county-lines-awol-on-the-errand-run.html][2002/12/15/1448831]]) Al, who is 42 and has two children and can often be found listening to sports radio as his car idles in a parking lot, fancies himself *the Stravinsky of* /excuses/.
217. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21506386][Harold Edmund Box]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/theater/theater-in-review-inheriting-problems-along-with-the-box-of-loot.html][2002/12/16/1449287]]) Inheriting Problems Along With *the Box of* Loot+
218. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57384][Wernher von Braun]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/19/garden/the-chore-that-wants-more.html][2002/12/19/1449879]]) Approached by the Whirlpool Corporation two years ago to be a consumer ''pilot'' for a next generation of fabric-care appliances, Mrs. Bova quickly proved to be *the Wernher von Braun of* /duds-in-suds/, pushing the $10 billion company toward imagining a braver future -- brighter, cleaner, fresher!
219. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/arts/art-in-review-andras-borocz.html][2002/12/20/1450289]]) The traditional idea is to stamp the feet to drown out any mention of Haman, *the Hitler of* /his Biblical day/; Mr. Borocz has worked up elaborate wooden toys in which shoes are activated by cranks to produce that result.
220. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/21/us/washington-talk-after-all-these-years-what-do-you-say-now-chevy-chase.html][2002/12/21/1450439]]) That is helping Gerald R. Ford, once parodied as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /presidents/, to enjoy a rehabilitation of sorts, bringing new respect for his leadership skills.
221. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28493][Ralph Fiennes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/arts/music-look-what-they-re-doing-to-opera.html][2002/12/22/1450621]]) The elegant British baritone Simon Keenlyside is *the Ralph Fiennes of* /opera/, not just an affectingly restrained actor, but, as his recent Lincoln Center performances in the choreographer Trisha Brown's staging of Schubert's song cycle ''Winterreise'' made clear, an agile dancer.
222. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/nyregion/long-island-journal-on-the-hunt-cupid-s-arrow-in-his-quiver.html][2002/12/22/1450658]]) He was introduced as *the Michael Jordan of* /hunting and fishing/.
223. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552819][Hank Williams Jr.]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/26/arts/year-that-pop-lost-popularity-roster-no-1-cd-s-extreme-genres-led-pack.html][2002/12/26/1451562]]) Take: Rushing to release this less than a year after his last album, Mr. Keith sings of vengeance, vacation and the rodeo, becoming *the Hank Williams Jr. of* /the moment/.
224. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5950][James Brown]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/nyregion/good-polls-and-lots-of-cash-but-still-no-rest-for-schumer.html][2002/12/27/1451810]]) ''Chuck Schumer is *the James Brown of* /politics/ -- no one works harder,'' said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic consultant in New York.
225. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3838473][Lucia Pamela]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-flip-flop-fly.html][2002/12/29/1452071]]) She's *the Lucia Pamela of* /her day/.
226. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-is-that-all-there-is.html][2002/12/29/1452073]]) Lee's vixeny style made her something like *the Madonna of* /her time/ (an idea verified for me by, of all people, my neighborhood butcher, a New Deal baby who said of Lee, ''Oh, she was the bad girl'').
227. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1586470][Harry Cohn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/business/he-lit-up-hbo-now-he-must-run-it.html][2002/12/29/1452280]]) ''He's *the Harry Cohn of* /today/.''
228. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/us/for-many-senators-the-choicest-of-all-perks-is-office-space.html][2002/12/29/1452372]]) Mr. Byrd has occupied an extraordinarily beautiful suite, resplendent with frescoes by Constantino Brumidi, the Italian artist often called *the Michelangelo of* /the Capitol/.
229. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128121][Mick Jagger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/30/books/books-of-the-times-a-troublemaker-walked-in-beauty.html][2002/12/30/1452742]]) Lord Byron was *the Mick Jagger of* /his time/, ''mad, bad, and dangerous to know,'' in the words of his tragic admirer Caroline Lamb.

** 2003
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957543][Ernest Shackleton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/books/50-million-frenchmen-can-t-be-wrong.html][2003/01/05/1453822]]) The 19th-century explorer Richard Burton, *the Ernest Shackleton of* /sex/, wrote that if a woman can perform this technique, ''her husband will then value her above all women, nor would he exchange her for the most beautiful queen in the Three Worlds.''
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164487][Ava Gardner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/10/arts/hispanic-treasures-awaiting-discovery.html][2003/01/10/1455219]]) Strolling into the main room, designed to resemble a Renaissance Spanish courtyard, you come face to face with ''The Duchess of Alba,'' Goya's memorable portrait of *the Ava Gardner of* /Spanish nobility/.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/theater/california-waves-los-angeles-becomes-a-base-for-cutting-edge-performance.html][2003/01/12/1455690]]) Live is now the dominant player on the scene, *the King Kong of* /Southern California performance/.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/education/where-the-girls-aren-t.html][2003/01/12/1455754]]) ''The question is, who wants to be *the Rosa Parks of* /computer science/?''
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q558664][Alex Rodriguez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/sports/baseball-inside-baseball-teams-are-playing-musical-chairs-in-bullpens.html][2003/01/12/1456006]]) Last year, the Rangers acted as if they were signing *the Alex Rodriguez of* /relievers/, giving Jay Powell a three-year, $9 million contract and Todd Van Poppel a three-year, $7.5 million deal.
6. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208205][Bill Evans]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/13/arts/jazz-review-freed-from-familiar-perch-a-pianist-alights-at-birdland.html][2003/01/13/1456157]]) An original song, ''Too Soon,'' remembered *the Bill Evans of* ''Waltz for Debby.''+
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9696][John F. Kennedy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/magazine/the-makeover.html][2003/01/19/1457548]]) But how to reconcile those rumors with others that have him down as a world-class womanizer, *the Jack Kennedy of* /the Sahara/, or with the official line that lists him as a doting husband and father to his seven children?
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/magazine/a-grizzly-task.html][2003/01/19/1457551]]) If Wilt Chamberlain was *the Babe Ruth of* /basketball/, the outsize figure who forever changed his game's frame of reference, then West was the sport's DiMaggio, its understated classicist.
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205721][Joni Mitchell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/arts/l-joni-mitchell-truly-longtime-882470.html][2003/01/19/1457661]]) He calls himself a ''longtime admirer,'' but seems to be like all the other people who were fans of *the Joni Mitchell of* the early 70's and then ditched her when she began to become something else.+
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/sports/the-ski-report-olympic-aerialist-falls-back-to-earth.html][2003/01/23/1458686]]) It was Feb. 19, 2002 and Eric Bergoust, *the Babe Ruth of* /freestyle aerials/, stood at the crest of a snowy hill making the last preparations for his final jump at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q693585][Joe Nieuwendyk]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/sports/hockey-nieuwendyk-was-due-for-a-scoring-outburst.html][2003/01/24/1459192]]) ''He's looking like *the Joe Nieuwendyk of* old, that's for sure,'' defenseman Ken Daneyko said.+
12. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1124][Bill Clinton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/magazine/the-radical-presidency-of-george-w-bush-reagan-s-son.html][2003/01/26/1459689]]) Compare the disciplined Bush of ''Bush at War'' with *the Bill Clinton of* another recent insider book, Kenneth Pollack's ''Threatening Storm.''+
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234163][Nell Gwyn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/opinion/double-timing-the-king.html][2003/02/02/1461536]]) One can almost imagine Mrs. Simpson in the court of Charles II, the Lady Castlemaine, if not *the Nell Gwyn of* /her day/.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1048][Julius Caesar]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/sports/sports-of-the-times-colts-finding-motivation-in-new-way.html][2003/02/06/1462734]]) Jim Irsay, the eccentric son of the erratic Bob Irsay, *the Caesar of* /sports carpetbaggers/, is now running the show for the Colts.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/opinion/war-and-wisdom.html][2003/02/07/1462973]]) A better analogy is Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, who used to be denounced as *the Hitler of* /the 1980's/.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/opinion/war-and-wisdom.html][2003/02/07/1462973]]) The same was said of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom the West saw as *the Hitler of* /the 1950's and 1960's/.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8027][Martin Luther King, Jr.]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/sports/pro-basketball-who-will-replace-jordan-s-star-power.html][2003/02/09/1463692]]) ''He's like *the Martin Luther King of* /basketball/,'' Kevin Garnett of the Minnesota Timberwolves said.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/business/as-animation-goes-digital-disney-fights-for-its-crown.html][2003/02/10/1463847]]) Another question is, Who will be *the Walt Disney of* /this era/?
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41163][Al Pacino]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/movies/film-review-blind-lawyer-as-hero-in-red.html][2003/02/14/1464771]]) (His spiritual father could be *the Al Pacino of* ''Scent of a Woman.'')+
20. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40909][Virginia Woolf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/21/opinion/l-our-virginia-woolf-438740.html][2003/02/21/1466546]]) Regarding your article about *the Virginia Woolf of* ''The Hours'' (''The Nose Was the Final Straw,'' Arts & Ideas, Feb. 15):+
21. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40909][Virginia Woolf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/21/opinion/l-our-virginia-woolf-438740.html][2003/02/21/1466546]]) The fact remains that *the Virginia Woolf of* ''The Hours'' is a fictional character.+
22. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314415][Chris Webber]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/magazine/webber-s-world.html][2003/02/23/1466976]]) How do we square our middle-class moralism with all-live, all-the-time coverage of kids like *the Chris Webber of* a decade ago or the LeBron James of today?+
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13894][Richard Strauss]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/arts/music-a-provocative-dane-whose-bold-music-is-also-meticulous.html][2003/02/23/1467023]]) The virtuosic writing, grand gestures and extremes of volume, with antecedents in ''Solar Trilogy'' (1992-95), Mr. Ruders's sprawling symphonic drama, illustrate the British critic Stephen Johnson's often repeated description of Mr. Ruders as ''*the Richard Strauss of* /the computer-age orchestra/.''
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/realestate/postings-housing-group-builds-for-profit-project-brooklyn-12-market-rentals-two.html][2003/02/23/1467070]]) ''We want to be *the Johnny Appleseed of* /these projects/,'' Mr. Bee said, ''so we can see more of them proliferate.''
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1346641][Johnnie Cochran]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/nyregion/a-civil-tenor-for-civil-rights.html][2003/02/23/1467291]]) Perhaps less flatteringly, Mr. Brewington also is sometimes called *the Johnnie Cochran of* /Long Island/.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312348][Thurgood Marshall]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/nyregion/a-civil-tenor-for-civil-rights.html][2003/02/23/1467291]]) HE is sometimes called *the Thurgood Marshall of* /Long Island/.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1409][Caligula]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/25/science/a-revolution-at-50-watson-and-crick-both-aligned-and-apart-reinvented-biology.html][2003/02/25/1467644]]) One of these, Dr. Edward O. Wilson, called him in a memoir ''*the Caligula of* /biology/.''
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442202][Vanna White]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/nyregion/the-college-remembers-lehman-its-students-not-so-much.html][2003/02/26/1467976]]) She was *the Vanna White of* /the day/ -- the person who spelled ''Herbert H. Lehman,'' letter by letter, on a sign announcing a symposium that looked at his place in history and his place in the participants' memories.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/magazine/ozark-spring.html][2003/03/02/1468803]]) In 1964, the United States Congress authorized that land all along the Jacks Fork River (once described by a boater as *the Mozart of* /rivers/) would be part of the 80,000-acre park, the first of the national riverways.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5171165][Cornelia Guest]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/style/shaken-and-stirred-new-before-its-time.html][2003/03/02/1468986]]) The cosmopolitan was a kind of fast debutante that showed up in the 1980's and 90's -- *the Cornelia Guest of* /cocktails/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188955][Matthew McConaughey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/movies/on-stage-and-off.html][2003/03/07/1470289]]) Rodney Gilfry, the strapping, blond baritone who has been called ''*the Matthew McConaughey of* /opera/'' (for good or bad), will star in this spring's Encores!
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/footnotes-632546.html][2003/03/09/1470825]]) As *the Martha Stewart of* /the hippie age/, Alicia Bay Laurel wrote the book on living in do-it-yourself harmony with Mother Nature.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/sports/baseball-image-is-not-everything-when-subject-is-griffey.html][2003/03/09/1471019]]) ''He's *the Michael Jordan of* /the game/,'' Bowden said.
34. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7314][Igor Stravinsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/arts/music-review-a-requiem-conscious-of-its-debt-to-the-past.html][2003/03/11/1471385]]) By creating a choral sound of piercing textures, he gives his music the ring of Machaut and the 14th century, filtered, however, through *the Stravinsky of* the ''Symphony of Psalms'' and the Mass.+
35. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128560][Graham Greene]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/books/father-knows-least.html][2003/03/16/1472555]]) With its dizzying moral ironies, smart pace and deft set pieces, his novel evokes Graham Greene -- especially *the Graham Greene of* ''Brighton Rock.''+
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8409][Alexander the Great]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/lost-city-yielding-its-secrets.html][2003/03/18/1473251]]) That was in the reign of Pachacuti, considered *the Alexander the Great of* /the Incas/.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184650][Donald Rumsfeld]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/opinion/cassandra-speaks.html][2003/03/18/1473361]]) Agamemnon was *the Donald Rumsfeld of* /his day/, needlessly angering his key allies -- and outraging Achilles by swiping his concubine Briseis.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/business/hospital-chain-is-accused-of-accounting-fraud.html][2003/03/20/1473894]]) Capitalizing on generous Medicare payments for physical rehabilitation, he built enough personal wealth to become known as *the Donald Trump of* /Birmingham/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555370][Ed McMahon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/nyregion/long-island-journal-a-form-of-heaven-on-a-riverhead-stage.html][2003/03/23/1474775]]) ''We're *the Ed McMahon of* /the health business/,'' Mr. Freeman said, alluding to the Publishers Clearing House contest where winners are also informed of their luck with the ring of a doorbell.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182882][John James Audubon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/nyregion/casting-a-line-around-the-world.html][2003/03/30/1476563]]) For this skill, he has been hailed ''*the Audubon of* /trout/.''
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q559822][Tom Ridge]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/books/the-end-of-the-earth.html][2003/03/30/1476699]]) Reisner is *the Tom Ridge of* /the ecology/: he's put us all on red alert, but, short of vacating the state altogether, it's hard to know what to do about it; and never addressed is the question that, for all we know, Reisner might have tried to answer here had he lived, and that's what it is that continues to draw people to the continent's death row.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/books/the-global-villain.html][2003/03/30/1476700]]) One might well object that there is nothing representative about them: he talks to *the Bill Gates of* /India/; he manages to find a non-Coptic Christian family in Egypt (who complained that the Americans weren't as tough on Muslims as the Israelis were).
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/30/magazine/style-an-eye-for-the-ladies.html][2003/03/30/1476728]]) He's very knowledgeable about fine art but has no idea who Krazy Kat is, and he's like *the Leonardo da Vinci of* /the cartoon world/.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5589][Henri Matisse]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/04/arts/art-review-praising-nadelman-or-burying-him.html][2003/04/04/1477871]]) Nadelman, who was born in Warsaw in 1882, one year after Picasso, and committed suicide in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in 1946, was in many ways *the Matisse of* /20th-century sculpture/.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78893][Wolfgang Puck]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/travel/choice-tables-a-tropical-smorgasbord-in-honolulu.html][2003/04/06/1478378]]) Roy Yamaguchi is *the Wolfgang Puck of* /the Pacific/.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83321][Giacomo Casanova]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/nyregion/theater-review-classic-shakespeare-kiss-me-kevin.html][2003/04/06/1478430]]) In the prologue, high-decibel dissonance suggests a New Age ''West Side Story,'' with a fiesta-like rumble, as Joseph Urla struts as Petruchio, *the Casanova of* /the Barrio/.
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/nyregion/urban-tactics-on-chinatown-s-basketball-courts-it-s-the-year-of-yao.html][2003/04/06/1478600]]) ''He's *the Jackie Robinson of* /my generation/,'' he said.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80048][Al Capone]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/06/books/the-wild-child.html][2003/04/06/1478782]]) And Elizabeth has apparently found a way: while visiting an obscure museum on her freelance job doing research for a London travel guide, she stumbles upon the skeleton of the notorious criminal Jonathan Wild -- ''*the Al Capone of* /the 1720's/'' -- whom she regards as something of a kindred spirit.
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6377737][Kato Kaelin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/books/books-of-the-times-the-real-estate-agents-who-know-all-see-all.html][2003/04/07/1478881]]) Then he has settled in -- as ''a permanent house guest, *the Kato Kaelin of* /the wine country/,'' in the case of Alan Deutschman -- and tried to figure out what it all means.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1771239][Robert Trent Jones]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/travel/driving-the-racers-are-sleek-but-the-track-is-sleeker.html][2003/04/11/1479837]]) ''I would say he is *the Robert Trent Jones of* /tracks/.''
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51566][Spike Lee]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/world/the-saturday-profile-a-bold-new-view-of-turkish-german-youth.html][2003/04/12/1480088]]) Now it is also becoming known as the territory of a former graffiti sprayer and youth gang member, Neco Celik, whose debut movie, ''Alltag,'' or ''Every Day,'' is gaining him a reputation as *the Spike Lee of* /his time and place/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5577][Salvador Dalí]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/magazine/guilty-pleasures.html][2003/04/13/1480261]]) Tom Wolfe called him *the Salvador Dali of* /the car circuit/.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531599][Harvey Weinstein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/books/brought-to-you-by-s-p-eagle.html][2003/04/13/1480281]]) Like Goldwyn and Selznick before him, but smarter than either of them, he was a maverick, though one with establishment tastes and goals -- *the Harvey Weinstein of* /his day/, making the kind of movie that seemed custom-designed to win Academy Awards.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128121][Mick Jagger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/magazine/commute-to-nowhere.html][2003/04/13/1480317]]) And so by the time Jeff met Mara, in 1997, he was a wizened rock star, *the Mick Jagger of* /digital media/.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72267][Cecil B. DeMille]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/movies/film-mickey-rourke-is-sorry-very-very-very-sorry.html][2003/04/13/1480367]]) As a result, too many people still think of him -- if they think of him at all -- as a cautionary tale, an epic of career wreckage, *the Cecil B. DeMille of* /Hollywood zombies/, a damaged survivor of some terrible accident at the intersection of self-loathing and self-regard.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271884][Norman Rockwell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/nyregion/art-review-in-magazine-pages-the-roots-of-a-career.html][2003/04/13/1480412]]) During this period, he become the most famous illustrator in the country, *the Norman Rockwell of* /his day/.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864751][The Hatter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/nyregion/east-flatbush-journal-with-easter-week-away-bonnets-come-alive-mildred-s-hat.html][2003/04/13/1480710]]) Mildred herself -- Mildred Goldstein, that is, the wife of Herbert Goldstein, a voluble man known as *the Mad Hatter of* /Utica Avenue/ -- died several years ago.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44176][Hulk Hogan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/books/books-of-the-times-elegant-magazine-avalanche-of-dirt.html][2003/04/14/1480850]]) Meanwhile, at 5 feet 10 tall and 115 pounds, Andy is *the Hulk Hogan of* /this food-phobic crowd/.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231356][Nora Roberts]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/17/books/critic-s-notebook-murder-they-wrote-and-wrote.html][2003/04/17/1481531]]) For those who write like clockwork (i.e., Stuart Woods, *the Nora Roberts of* /mystery best-sellerdom/), a new book every few months is no surprise.
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/arts/antiques-a-sculptor-hears-the-call-of-the-wild.html][2003/04/18/1481787]]) (The French critic Théophile Gautier called him *the Michelangelo of* /the menagerie/.)
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52614][Ben Johnson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/tv/cover-story-helen-overcomes-bad-men-and-bad-press.html][2003/04/20/1482221]]) ''It was like *the Ben Johnson of* /goats/!
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q705715][RuPaul]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/arts/gay-rappers-too-real-for-hip-hop.html][2003/04/20/1482270]]) Caushun says there were labels that wanted to turn him into a house-music artist or into *the RuPaul of* /hip-hop/, but he said no.
63. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942923][Roy Cohn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/movies/seen-this-guy-lately.html][2003/04/20/1482277]]) Herod's lisping voice and mincing gait appear to foreshadow *the Roy Cohn of* Tony Kushner's ''Angels in America,'' whom Mr. Pacino will portray in Mike Nichols's adaptation of the play for HBO to be shown late this year.+
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217764][Maurice Béjart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/arts/dance-review-a-pinocchio-whose-nose-never-grows.html][2003/04/21/1482749]]) Boris Eifman may be *the Maurice Béjart of* /our time/.
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633][Neil Young]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-406252.html][2003/04/25/1483632]]) J Mascis is *the Neil Young of* /Generation X/.+ (D)
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/nyregion/art-review-nothing-out-of-the-ordinary-but-more-than-meets-the-eye.html][2003/04/27/1484223]]) Pierre Hermé, a Frenchman who was once called *the Picasso of* /Pastry/ in Vogue magazine, has trained bakers to create tartes, individual pastries and macaroons.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q587455][Barry Diller]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/us/the-tv-watch-a-one-time-media-diva-tries-to-find-her-way-on-a-new-stage.html][2003/05/01/1485294]]) But at other times, the conversation was reminiscent of dinner parties with the high and mighty during which the hostess asks the powerful man to her left a fawning question -- ''Who is *the Barry Diller of* /the Democratic Party/?''
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q966859][Richard Perle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/magazine/the-thinkable.html][2003/05/04/1485914]]) Even Shingo Nishimura, a staunch parliamentary militarist who was described to me as ''*the Richard Perle of* /Japan/'' (he was once fired from the cabinet for lamenting Japan's nuclear impotence), said he does not favor Japan producing nuclear weapons.
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27214][Jerry Springer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/arts/music-hip-hop-s-one-man-ministry-of-insults.html][2003/05/04/1485970]]) ''He's like *the Jerry Springer of* /rap/,'' said DJ Goldfinger, the host of a popular Friday night hip-hop party in Manhattan.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27214][Jerry Springer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/arts/music-hip-hop-s-one-man-ministry-of-insults.html][2003/05/04/1485970]]) Before he became *the Jerry Springer of* /hip-hop/, Kay Slay was Kenneth Gleason.
71. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23810][Alfred Nobel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/business/a-new-technology-now-that-new-is-old.html][2003/05/04/1486084]]) and elsewhere, he won the 1999 A. M. Turing Award, sometimes called *the Nobel of* computer science.+
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12897][Pelé]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/world/aftereffects-reign-of-terror-soccer-players-describe-torture-by-hussein-s-son.html][2003/05/06/1486720]]) Emmanuel Baba Dano, known throughout Iraq as Amu Baba, *the Pelé of* /Iraqi soccer/, served as the national coach for most of the last three decades.
73. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/world/thieves-take-cellini-sculpture-from-art-museum-in-vienna.html][2003/05/13/1488549]]) He described the piece as ''*the Mona Lisa of* sculptures'' because it is the only surviving work of its kind by Cellini, a leading Renaissance sculptor.+
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10390][John McCain]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/us/speaking-her-mind-using-her-checkbook.html][2003/05/13/1488591]]) ''By speaking her mind, she's going to be *the John McCain of* /first ladies/,'' he said.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1806985][Sharon Osbourne]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/us/speaking-her-mind-using-her-checkbook.html][2003/05/13/1488591]]) ''She's more likely to be *the Sharon Osbourne of* /first ladies/,'' said Mr. Warfield, the press secretary for Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential campaign.
76. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/nyregion/news-summary-669725.html][2003/05/13/1488656]]) Sculpture Stolen in Vienna  Intruders broke in to Vienna's art history museum, and stole ''*the Mona Lisa of* sculptures,'' a 16th-century gold-plated work by Florentine master Benvenuto Cellini.+
77. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/books/arts-briefing.html][2003/05/14/1488779]]) VIENNA: STOLEN SCULPTURE -- A museum offered yesterday to negotiate with weekend burglars who made off with the gold 16th-century Cellini work described as ''*the Mona Lisa of* sculptures'' and valued at $58 million.+
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/14/nyregion/murder-he-drew-sex-too-a-master-of-pulp-art-survives-to-enjoy-a-tribute.html][2003/05/14/1488815]]) As a teenager he became known as *the Rembrandt of* /Third Avenue/.
79. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3542288][Turf]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/nyregion/on-the-turf-of-the-hip-phillips-sells-young-art.html][2003/05/16/1489359]]) On *the Turf of* the Hip, Phillips Sells Young Art+
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54684][Bill Tilden]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/sports/backtalk-why-mixing-with-men-matters.html][2003/05/18/1489947]]) Annika Sorenstam is *the Bill Tilden of* /her sport/.
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q389438][John Daly]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/sports/backtalk-world-was-different-when-zaharias-played-pga-events.html][2003/05/18/1489974]]) Hitting from the men's tees, Didrikson shot 84-81, missing the 36-hole cut by 14 strokes as long-hitting Jimmy Thomson, *the John Daly of* /his day/, won with a 15-under-par 273 at Griffith Park.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311135][Karl Rove]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/23/opinion/the-green-old-party.html][2003/05/23/1491107]]) Lee Atwater, who was *the Karl Rove of* /George H. W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign/, once explained to me why he supported one of my controversial decisions as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: ''To me,'' he said, ''your appointment is about suburban women.
83. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/nyregion/neighborhood-report-new-york-underfoot-buzz-tread-me-honoring-form-function.html][2003/05/25/1491683]]) A member of the audience held up a large photo of what he considered *the Mona Lisa of* manhole covers.+
84. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q428223][Robert Plant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/arts/critic-s-choice-new-cd-s-led-zeppelin-passion-to-bloat.html][2003/05/27/1492151]]) By 1973 there is hardly a trace of *the Robert Plant of* 1970 who doesn't always know what to do with himself onstage, who accidentally drops his microphone, who hasn't yet learned the value of pursing his lips and flipping his hair.+
85. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/world/world-briefing-asia-china-dalai-lama-s-envoys-arrive-for-talks.html][2003/05/27/1492239]]) Tibetan advocates abroad expressed hope that the visit this week could lead to a serious dialogue about autonomy for Tibet, but China continues to accuse *the Dalai Lama of* trying to split the nation.+
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/29/arts/book-review-manicured-nails-bared-stalking-a-rich-husband.html][2003/05/29/1492543]]) She thinks of herself as ''*the Oprah of* /the skin-deep set/.''
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3219646][Laurie Colwin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/books/cooking.html][2003/06/01/1493185]]) In her first book, the former owner of Marnie's Noodle Shop in Manhattan comes off like *the Laurie Colwin of* /Asian food/.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212648][Rudy Giuliani]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/opinion/a-mayor-without-a-message.html][2003/06/01/1493592]]) David Rebovich, a political science professor at Rider University, said Mr. Christie was being cast as *the Rudolph Giuliani of* /New Jersey politics/.
89. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/nyregion/for-lost-picasso-a-surreal-return.html][2003/06/03/1493972]]) It is one thing to lose a Picasso, but it is quite another to lose someone else's Picasso -- *the Picasso of* a Manhattan corporate recruiter who had hired Mr. Bailey to select a frame.+
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/03/sports/pro-basketball-planting-a-new-family-tree.html][2003/06/03/1494048]]) He was *the Michael Jordan of* /Indiana/.
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/04/nyregion/a-night-proving-designers-can-play-well-together.html][2003/06/04/1494175]]) Sean Combs may be in danger of becoming *the Susan Lucci of* /the fashion world/.
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2263][Tom Hanks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/04/nyregion/a-night-proving-designers-can-play-well-together.html][2003/06/04/1494175]]) ''He's *the Tom Hanks of* /the fashion world/,'' said the designer Lazaro Hernandez, referring to Mr. Rodriguez's winning streak.
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/07/books/q-a-finding-a-way-out-with-north-korea.html][2003/06/07/1494856]]) The late Kim Il Sung is revered as *the George Washington of* /his country/.
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6691][Homer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/magazine/ivy-envy.html][2003/06/08/1495380]]) The greatest power of a university president is to be *the Homer of* /the community/.''
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83233][Jacques Cousteau]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/travel/new-england-cape-cod-s-string-of-ponds.html][2003/06/08/1495412]]) One person who still has decidedly mixed feelings about the publicity is a 40-year-old photographer and filmmaker named Nate Johnson, a longtime ''wash ashore,'' as visitors-turned-permanent-residents are called, and in the words of one local newspaper, *the Jacques Cousteau of* /Wellfleet/.
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q547167][Fannie Farmer]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/dining/the-rich-source-of-indulgence.html][2003/06/11/1495897]]) Isabella Beeton, *the Fannie Farmer of* /Britain/, used the terms clotted cream and Devonshire cream interchangeably, which ought to settle the issue.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334412][Manolo Blahnik]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/dining/here-comes-the-cake-and-it-actually-tastes-good.html][2003/06/11/1495909]]) Mr. Ben-Israel is *the Manolo Blahnik of* /wedding cakes/, a high-priced craftsman who knows that just as beautiful shoes are useless if they are not comfortable, beautiful cakes are useless if they are not delicious.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336519][Elmore Leonard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/13/movies/film-review-from-australia-a-thinking-man-s-hood.html][2003/06/13/1496389]]) Dale has the ability to cut through confusion with a swift, amused turn of phrase; he could be *the Elmore Leonard of* /cons/.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/us/felix-de-weldon-is-dead-at-96-sculptured-memorial-to-marines.html][2003/06/15/1496808]]) ''He is *the Elvis of* /game-show hosts/.''
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/us/felix-de-weldon-is-dead-at-96-sculptured-memorial-to-marines.html][2003/06/15/1497258]]) Some of these likenesses I recognized, including that of Carlos Gardel, *the Elvis of* /tango culture/, and the writer Jorge Luis Borges, a personal hero of mine.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/nyregion/long-island-journal-down-to-earth-guy-with-126-rooms-to-let.html][2003/06/22/1499006]]) She's *the Greta Garbo of* /the modern century/.''
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25973][Hermann Hesse]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/arts/art-review-chuckling-darkly-at-disaster.html][2003/06/27/1500128]]) George Grosz described him as ''*the Hermann Hesse of* /painting/, German and heavy,'' and ''utterly lacking in humor.''
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/nyregion/art-review-a-leader-who-showed-the-way-for-generations-of-artists.html][2003/07/06/1502617]]) Parks was *the Jackie Robinson of* /the art world/, you could say.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9061][Karl Marx]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/11/movies/critic-s-notebook-a-welcome-tribute-to-a-lost-composer.html][2003/07/11/1503581]]) In 1947 Hanns Eisler was brought before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and accused of being ''*the Karl Marx of* /Communism in the musical field/.''
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310176][Martin Amis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/the-literary-freud.html][2003/07/13/1503962]]) Although Phillips cuts a sufficiently glamorous figure to earn him the sobriquet ''*the Martin Amis of* /British psychoanalysis/,'' he firmly states his preference for the common over the uncommon patient.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39464][Pol Pot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/the-cult-of-rajavi.html][2003/07/13/1503965]]) Instead, they said, the Rajavis, given the chance, would have been *the Pol Pot of* /Iran/.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/theater/theater-on-the-yangtze-with-the-hatfields-and-mccoys.html][2003/07/13/1504002]]) On Hart: ''He's *the Shakespeare of* /self-pity/.
108. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156731][Claes Oldenburg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/nyregion/art-review-sculpture-sprouting-on-campus-becomes-literally-an-art-exercise.html][2003/07/13/1504279]]) The piece, which conjures up *the Claes Oldenburg of* decades ago, sits outside the museum basking in what the artist calls its ''meaty softness.''+
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93604][Lotte Lenya]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/arts/lincoln-center-festival-review-portrait-painted-in-song-with-words-by-brecht.html][2003/07/15/1504593]]) In ''Four Lullabies for Working Mothers,'' he proved himself *the Lotte Lenya of* /Hanns Eisler/.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5231587][David Bouley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/travel/journeys-cool-clubs-hot-stars-is-this-atlantic-city.html][2003/07/18/1505270]]) Aside from hotel renovations, Mr. Van Meter said other signs of growth were making the area more appealing to the kind of New Yorkers who pick and choose where to make cameo appearances as if they were Bill Clinton -- new restaurants with ''real chefs'' (''When I read that chef Susanna Foo, considered *the David Bouley of* /Philadelphia/, is launching a restaurant in Atlantic City, I was floored -- in a good way,'' he said), and new clubs with ''real D.J.'s.''
111. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134867][Danny Boyle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/18/movies/film-review-a-band-with-big-dreams-and-home-brewed-drugs.html][2003/07/18/1505285]]) This movie could be ''A Hard Day's Night'' as staged by *the Danny Boyle of* ''Trainspotting.''+
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93188][Errol Flynn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/books/it-s-genetic-sometimes.html][2003/07/20/1505638]]) In such a situation, being a superstud -- *the Errol Flynn of* /the primate world/ -- is the best way forward.
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/arts/television-the-cosby-show-starring-heavily-accented-jews.html][2003/07/20/1505699]]) Gertrude Berg, the accentless, Columbia University-educated granddaughter of immigrants who created, produced, wrote and starred in the show (she played Molly), became *the Oprah Winfrey of* /her time/, a widely beloved entrepreneur who eventually branched into cookbooks and fashion for the larger lady and whose brand was her ability to touch everyone's common humanity.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9711][Honoré de Balzac]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-7-20-03-working-the-beat.html][2003/07/20/1505728]]) The show, which is the latest opus by David Simon, the journalist turned producer who has become, with ''Homicide'' and ''The Corner,'' *the Balzac of* /postindustrial Maryland/, takes what might have looked like an exhausted set of premises -- a motley squad of detectives investigating homicides, drug trafficking and union corruption -- and infuses them with surprising realism.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231356][Nora Roberts]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/books/romance-novels-she-said-adoringly-with-trembling-hand-she-reached-caressed.html][2003/07/21/1506165]]) ''She's like the Stephen King of our genre,'' Ms. Lynch said, and then amended that to ''Stephen King is *the Nora Roberts of* /his genre/,'' as her friend and writing partner, Cai Smith, from Wisconsin, nodded her head in agreement.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39829][Stephen King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/books/romance-novels-she-said-adoringly-with-trembling-hand-she-reached-caressed.html][2003/07/21/1506165]]) ''She's like *the Stephen King of* /our genre/,'' Ms. Lynch said, and then amended that to ''Stephen King is the Nora Roberts of his genre,'' as her friend and writing partner, Cai Smith, from Wisconsin, nodded her head in agreement.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/23/us/rock-idol-s-legacy-devolves-into-family-feud.html][2003/07/23/1506513]]) ''She's making Ernie into *the Elvis of* /New Orleans/.''
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5597][Raphael]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/arts/art-review-sunk-at-sea-and-captured-on-canvas.html][2003/07/25/1506970]]) (Manet, who referred to Monet as ''*the Raphael of* /water/,'' admired his seascapes and owned a few of them.)
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1618][Charles Lindbergh]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/nyregion/reliving-history-at-30-mph-drivers-commemorate-a-cross-country-trip.html][2003/07/26/1507245]]) He did it, rumbling down Fifth Avenue 100 years ago today and becoming what a transportation specialist at the Smithsonian Institution calls ''*the Charles Lindbergh of* /1903/, no question about it.''
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162629][Simon Cowell]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/tv/cover-story-learning-to-be-rich-and-a-little-famous.html][2003/07/27/1507363]]) Mr. Allen, *the Simon Cowell of* /the board/, suggests that Cousin Mike doesn't deserve to win because he'd never be allowed to play on a decent golf course with all those tattoos.
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193635][Alan Greenspan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/business/it-looked-good-on-paper.html][2003/07/27/1507526]]) BusinessWeek declared Professor Boskin ''clearly back on top of his game'' in its June 30 issue, calling him ''*the Alan Greenspan of* /his generation/.''
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220210][George Steinbrenner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/movies/critic-s-choice-new-cd-s-diverse-organizing-principles.html][2003/07/29/1507992]]) (You might say he's *the George Steinbrenner of* /hip-hop/, except that P. Diddy insists on playing, too.)
123. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43432][Justin Timberlake]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/31/arts/youngsters-sing-along-grown-ups-stay-sane.html][2003/07/31/1508433]]) This was not *the Justin Timberlake of* 'N Sync fame, however; this was Justin Roberts, a singer-songwriter known mainly in Chicago.+
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/02/us/months-before-debut-movie-on-death-of-jesus-causes-stir.html][2003/08/02/1508990]]) ''Mel Gibson is *the Michelangelo of* /this generation/,'' said the Rev.
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131324][Janet Jackson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/arts/music-hip-hop-is-a-guest-at-the-indian-wedding.html][2003/08/03/1509118]]) Until Ms. Shwari makes good on her dream to be *the Janet Jackson of* /Indian pop/, Americans will be well served by Panjabi MC's American debut album, ''Beware'' (Sequence Records).
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103767][Charlie Parker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/arts/l-roger-miller-always-laughing-726737.html][2003/08/03/1509152]]) An embodied opposite of cliché, he was *the Charlie Parker of* /something/, maybe several somethings.
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225][Bruce Springsteen]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/nyregion/art-review-finding-the-romantic-side-of-the-vistas-of-new-jersey.html][2003/08/03/1509410]]) Mr. Tice is *the Bruce Springsteen of* /photography/.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/09/arts/william-woolfolk-86-writer-behind-comic-book-heroes.html][2003/08/09/1510583]]) Lou Fine, who was known for drawing just like Eisner, called Woolfolk ''*the Shakespeare of* /comics/.''
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/travel/in-the-wake-of-carters-and-lees.html][2003/08/10/1510820]]) For different reasons, a quick evening visit to the Chesapeake Club, the inn's informal restaurant, made us wish we'd ordered less: the Caesar salad was fine, but the artichoke, spinach and crab fondue was lukewarm and bland, and half a dozen heavily breaded chicken fingers were so huge they must have come from *the King Kong of* /fowl/.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/13/arts/dance-review-the-heat-of-flamenco-and-song-melts-into-the-summer-evening.html][2003/08/13/1511600]]) ''I'm like *the Jesus of* /extreme cooking/.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q727418][Nicholas Payton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-907103.html][2003/08/15/1512043]]) Jeremy Pelt is the new straight-ahead jazz trumpeter to whom everyone's paying attention, in essence *the Nicholas Payton of* /the new decade/.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/us/alabama-s-top-judge-defiant-on-commandments-display.html][2003/08/21/1513710]]) Supporters are now calling him ''*the Moses of* /Alabama/.''
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/opinion/my-lesson-from-mr-olympia.html][2003/08/22/1513834]]) The man was our hero: *the Babe Ruth of* /bodybuilding/.
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356929][Gray Davis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/24/nyregion/up-front-worth-noting-another-governor-another-action-hero.html][2003/08/24/1514454]]) Call it California envy, but Mr. Jedynak calls Governor McGreevey ''*the Gray Davis of* /the East/.''
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187033][Sally Field]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/nyregion/nyc-tell-mars-new-yorkers-come-in-peace.html][2003/08/26/1514795]]) AFTER 9/11, we became *the Sally Field of* /cities/.
136. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q943668][Tom Glavine]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/27/sports/baseball-glavine-avoids-the-braves-seo-beats-them-head-on.html][2003/08/27/1515134]]) He probably wants to show he was *the Tom Glavine of* old.+
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274][Chet Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/29/arts/art-review-a-child-of-nature-shows-his-pop-culture-roots.html][2003/08/29/1515433]]) Ellsworth Kelly was *the Chet Baker of* /the new, cool painting of the late 1950's and early 60's/.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/nyregion/neighborhood-report-greenwich-village-citypeople-for-spielberg-civic-duty-no.html][2003/08/31/1515964]]) For *the Spielberg of* /Civic Duty/, No Jury Prizes, Just Plenty of Jurors
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/31/nyregion/art-review-a-minister-s-message-the-past-is-perfect.html][2003/08/31/1516046]]) He was *the Martha Stewart of* /his day/.
140. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/arts/arts-briefing.html][2003/09/04/1516845]]) ART: UPDATE ON A THEFT -- The saga of the theft of a 16th-century Cellini work described as ''*the Mona Lisa of* sculpture'' and valued at $58 million has taken a new turn, with the report that an insurance company has received a $5.5 million ransom demand.+
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274][Chet Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/05/arts/art-guide.html][2003/09/05/1517056]]) Mr. Kelly was *the Chet Baker of* /the new, cool painters of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation/.
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83325][Pamela Anderson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/arts/television-review-coiffures-make-the-dude-he-s-downwardly-mobile.html][2003/09/11/1518658]]) Loni Anderson, who in the 70's was *the Pamela Anderson of* /her time/, is accordingly cast as the Mullets' sexy mother, Mandi Mullet-Heidecker.
143. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274][Chet Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/arts/art-guide.html][2003/09/12/1518897]]) Mr. Kelly was *the Chet Baker of* /the new, cool painters of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation/.+ (D)
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107190][Peter Pan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/movies/movie-guide.html][2003/09/12/1518898]]) Based on the true story of Michael Alig, *the Peter Pan of* /the New York club kids of the 1980's/, this familiar tale of big-city glamour and ruin is a stylish muddle.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/movies/taking-the-children-missing-out-on-childhood-now-hoping-to-rent-one.html][2003/09/12/1518901]]) One man, *the Cal Ripken of* /the sport/, has been surfing every day for 24 years, long enough to have worn out 32 boards.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335798][Sugar Ray Leonard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/13/sports/boxing-de-la-hoya-puts-career-in-balance-against-mosley.html][2003/09/13/1519242]]) ''Shane could have been like *the Sugar Ray Leonard of* /his time/,'' De La Hoya said.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231255][Julie London]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/style/fashion-week-is-fashion-still-cool.html][2003/09/14/1519492]]) You look at Christina Aguilera, and she has all the affectations of somebody who would be a rocker, and then you hear her songs and you think, Is this *the Julie London of* /today/?''
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/business/business-from-a-texas-trump-plans-that-amaze-or-annoy.html][2003/09/14/1519493]]) ''Tilman Fertitta is like *the Donald Trump of* /the Southwest/,'' said Frances Farenthold, known as Sissy, who represented Corpus Christi in the Texas Legislature from 1968 to 1973 and is a staunch opponent of the proposed deal in that city.
149. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274][Chet Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/arts/art-guide.html][2003/09/19/1520631]]) Mr. Kelly was *the Chet Baker of* /the new, cool painters of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation/.+ (D)
150. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107190][Peter Pan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/movies/movie-guide.html][2003/09/19/1520634]]) Based on the true story of Michael Alig, *the Peter Pan of* /the New York club kids of the 1980's/, this familiar tale of big-city glamour and ruin is a stylish muddle.+ (D)
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/magazine/road-rage.html][2003/09/21/1521031]]) David Coulthard, of the McLaren Mercedes racing team, models for Hugo Boss; Jacques Villeneuve, *the Dennis Rodman of* /the racing world/, colors his hair and is fussy about his racing gear; and Flavio Briatore, a former leader of the Benetton racing team and the manager of the Renault crew, owns a trendy nightclub in Sardinia and has been dating the supermodel Heidi Klum.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180795][Mohammad Khatami]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/books/the-puritan-dilemma.html][2003/09/21/1521049]]) He might be considered *the Mohammad Khatami of* /the Evangelical Republic of Massachusetts/.
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/nyregion/urban-tactics-brisket-and-identity.html][2003/09/21/1521281]]) I quizzed Jonathan on what *the Garbo of* /butchers/ was really like.
154. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561852][Willie Mays]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/weekinreview/gods-and-heroes-sure-bonds-is-no-mays-but-mays-wouldn-t-be-mays-today.html][2003/09/21/1521290]]) ''That still wouldn't make him a public idol on the scale of *the Willie Mays of* 40 years ago,'' Robinson continued.+
155. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274][Chet Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/arts/art-guide.html][2003/09/26/1522428]]) Mr. Kelly was *the Chet Baker of* /the new, cool painters of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation/.+ (D)
156. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107190][Peter Pan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/movies/movie-guide.html][2003/09/26/1522443]]) Based on the true story of Michael Alig, *the Peter Pan of* /the New York club kids of the 1980's/, this familiar tale of big-city glamour and ruin is a stylish muddle.+ (D)
157. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/29/opinion/the-mask-of-warka.html][2003/09/29/1523405]]) A tip from an Iraqi led to a frightened boy, then to a smuggler, finally to a farm where -- wrapped in rags under six inches of dirt -- Iraqi police and U.S. troops recently found the priceless Mask of Warka, ''*the Mona Lisa of* Mesopotamia,'' the face sculpted 5,500 years ago and stolen during the liberation of Baghdad.+
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/science/conversation-with-eva-harris-simple-side-high-tech-makes-developing-world-better.html][2003/09/30/1523512]]) In her own soft-spoken way, Dr. Eva Harris, 38, has become *the Robin Hood of* /biotechnology/.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313697][Ross Perot]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/opinion/trading-memories.html][2003/09/30/1523575]]) Most of the candidates are selling decidedly protectionist messages, as if seeking to become *the Ross Perot of* /the 2004 race/, not the Bill Clinton.
160. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274][Chet Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/arts/art-guide.html][2003/10/03/1524217]]) Mr. Kelly was *the Chet Baker of* /the new, cool painters of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation/.+ (D)
161. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/arts/art-review-the-dark-geometry-of-picasso-s-mistress-from-every-angle.html][2003/10/03/1524235]]) Fernande was perhaps the only woman Picasso was deeply involved with who knew him before he became *the Picasso of* history, when he was still capable of a kind of intimacy that his ambition, fully felt, seems to have made impossible.+
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314712][Barry Bonds]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/movies/film-review-a-train-depot-more-dream-than-destination.html][2003/10/03/1524243]]) Ms. Clarkson has been delivering meaty, juicy plums to movies for several years; she's become *the Barry Bonds of* /low-budget film/.
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278804][Bear Bryant]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/sports/college-football-longhorns-brown-knows-only-winning-will-quiet-critics.html][2003/10/04/1524605]]) Royal, *the Bear Bryant of* /Texas/, led the Longhorns to three national championships in his 20 seasons here, from 1957 to 1976.
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26806][Danny DeVito]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/us/california-recall-lieutenant-governor-poor-showing-clouds-prospects-state-s-no-2.html][2003/10/09/1525859]]) Short, stocky and balding, Mr. Bustamante described himself as *the Danny DeVito of* /the recall race/.
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5597][Raphael]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/arts/art-review-oui-art-tips-from-perfidious-albion.html][2003/10/10/1526015]]) Bonington, whom Delacroix called *the Raphael of* /landscape painting/, is represented by a luminous work called ''A Fishmarket Near Boulogne,'' which made a splash in the 1824 Salon.
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/nyregion/county-lines-guys-who-grab-for-a-six-string.html][2003/10/12/1526736]]) A friend from Brewster who prefers to remain anonymous calls her husband ''*the Johnny Appleseed of* /guitars/.''
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5237521][David Merrick]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/15/sports/baseball-critic-s-notebook-baseball-as-theater-starring-the-yanks.html][2003/10/15/1527475]]) George Steinbrenner, *the David Merrick of* /sports/, got into the act by misquoting, at top volume, Douglas MacArthur.
168. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529913][Pedro Martínez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/sports/the-boston-globe-red-sox-come-close-again-but-still-no-champagne.html][2003/10/17/1527970]]) Check that: the problem was that Grady Little thought that *the Pedro Martínez of* 2003 is the Pedro Martínez of 1999.+
169. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529913][Pedro Martínez]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/sports/the-boston-globe-red-sox-come-close-again-but-still-no-champagne.html][2003/10/17/1527970]]) The problem is that *the Pedro Martínez of* 2003 is not the Pedro Martínez of 1999.+
170. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311135][Karl Rove]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/magazine/the-last-emperor.html][2003/10/19/1528235]]) Hwang was *the Karl Rove of* /North Korea/ for more than three decades, creating the ideology of Juche, or self-sufficiency, that was the bedrock of Kim Il Sung's regime and remains in place today -- though in name only, since North Korea depends on foreign aid for its survival.
171. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41117][Kim Il-sung]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/magazine/the-last-emperor.html][2003/10/19/1528235]]) In the years before his death, according to Hwang, ''Kim Il Sung was not *the Kim Il Sung of* years past.+
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709413][Arthur Freed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/movies/film-review-the-loss-of-relationships-under-mao-s-rough-revolutionary-hand.html][2003/10/22/1529132]]) ''The East Is Red,'' photographed in volcanic color, splashes its propaganda in terms so simple that the scenes become almost Brechtian; more specifically, it's a crude Minnelli musical essentially produced by Mao, *the Arthur Freed of* /Communism/.
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q410][Carl Sagan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/tv/cover-story-string-theory-visualizing-the-weirdness.html][2003/10/26/1530026]]) Dr. Greene is *the Carl Sagan of* /this new multidimensional cosmos/, diving through wormholes to travel instantaneously the length of Manhattan, lecturing on relativity to his dog, encountering multiple disconnected copies of himself in the quantum cafe, where an order of orange juice may get you a glass of blue liquid instead.
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2458861][Bob Costas]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/magazine/the-takedown-artist.html][2003/10/26/1530036]]) (Wieseltier concurs: ''He's *the Bob Costas of* /criticism/.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q653333][Michael Ovitz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/magazine/the-takedown-artist.html][2003/10/26/1530036]]) Not only has he managed to get himself talked about (''Dale Peck is *the Michael Ovitz of* /the literary world/,'' says the literary agent Bonnie Nadell); he has managed to stir up a debate over the practice of book reviewing -- its status, its value, its effect on our literary culture.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q225283][Annie Leibovitz]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/arts/art-the-eminent-photographer-of-eminent-victorians.html][2003/10/26/1530084]]) The Guardian called Cameron ''*the Annie Leibovitz of* /her day/,'' The Observer cited her as a precursor of Richard Avedon and The Independent said her portraits of the famous were ''publicity shots to die for.''
177. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355314][Jack Welch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/business/business-when-jobs-move-overseas-to-south-carolina.html][2003/10/26/1530219]]) Mr. Zhang has sometimes called himself *the Jack Welch of* /China/.
178. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q554027][Allan Houston]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/sports/pro-basketball-houston-left-standing-as-knicks-main-man.html][2003/10/28/1530779]]) In terms of leadership, Chaney said: ''He's not *the Allan Houston of* four years ago.+
179. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274][Chet Baker]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/arts/art-guide.html][2003/10/31/1531408]]) Mr. Kelly was *the Chet Baker of* /the new, cool painters of the post-Abstract Expressionist generation/.+ (D)
180. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/31/arts/family-fare.html][2003/10/31/1531415]]) ''He was *the Babe Ruth of* /racehorses/,'' Mr. Balch said.
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195527][Lester Bangs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/books/the-media-thing.html][2003/11/02/1531857]]) He's *the Lester Bangs of* /media culture/.
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2685][Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/movies/holiday-movies-remembering-the-alamo-whatever-happened.html][2003/11/02/1531930]]) The Alamo was, as Steve Harrigan likes to say, a story of second chances: Crockett, *the Arnold Schwarzenegger of* /his time/, was moving from celebrity to politics; Travis, a young and untested lawyer turned soldier, was searching for gravitas.
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7346][John Coltrane]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/travel/san-francisco-for-less-gold.html][2003/11/02/1531956]]) The five-man jazz-funk ensemble unleashed dizzyingly layered rhythms, with *the John Coltrane of* /harmonica players/ and a spoken-word vocalist.
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378052][Sam Rayburn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/nyregion/for-joseph-doria-a-rare-election-he-s-not-running.html][2003/11/02/1532193]]) Donald Scarinci, a Hudson County attorney who was Mr. Doria's counsel in the speaker's office, described his former boss as ''*the Sam Rayburn of* /New Jersey/,'' referring to the legendary Texan who served as House speaker for all but four years from 1940 to 1961.
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/arts/the-tv-watch-hollywood-stumbles-at-doorstep-of-politics.html][2003/11/06/1533041]]) He is not just a beloved former president; he is *the Moses of* /the conservative movement/.
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531759][Peter Mayle]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/books/four-legs-and-flies.html][2003/11/09/1534152]]) Thus begins a love story that drives this new memoir (the second of what looks to be a series, initiated two years ago with the publication of ''Country Matters,'' which earned its British-born author the reputation of being *the Peter Mayle of* /Dutchess County/).
187. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316639][Daniel Burnham]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/movies/architecture-when-the-ultimate-monument-isn-t-a-building.html][2003/11/09/1534198]]) Also, Philadelphia had two giants in the fields of architecture and city planning: Kahn and the legendary Ed Bacon, *the Daniel Burnham of* /postwar American planning/.
188. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/arts/pfc-jessica-lynch-isn-t-rambo-anymore.html][2003/11/09/1534201]]) In the seven months of virtual silence since her rescue from a Nasiriya hospital, she has become *the Mona Lisa of* ''/Operation Iraqi Freedom/.''+
189. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/tv/movies-critic-s-choice.html][2003/11/09/1534208]]) John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), whom Crane calls ''*the James Bond of* /video nuts/,'' is a bad influence.
190. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/sports/tv-sports-nfl-today-tomorrow-a-coach.html][2003/11/11/1534480]]) The prototype was Bill Parcells, who, while working for NBC after he left the Giants, was *the Michelangelo of* /saying he did not interview with clubs he had clearly interviewed with/.
191. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244512][Harry Potter]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/14/movies/film-review-master-of-the-sea-and-the-french.html][2003/11/14/1535125]]) Aubrey (Mr. Crowe) is an ideal personification of modern executive authority -- *the Harry Potter of* /the managerial class/.
192. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1341644][Rich Little]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/books/children-s-books-in-brief-038296.html][2003/11/16/1535536]]) Happily, in the end he discovers a talent that sets him up as *the Rich Little of* /the elephant world/, and he wows his formerly scornful schoolmates with snorts that transform his trunk into a veritable menagerie.
193. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q849930][Holly Golightly]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/nyregion/behind-bright-toys-f-a-o-schwarz-teeters-stirring-bankruptcy-talk.html][2003/11/16/1535818]]) Could the store that made Macaulay Culkin *the Holly Golightly of* /the under-12 set/ disappear by Christmas?
194. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875][Oscar Wilde]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/nyregion/theater-onstage-ambivalence-and-despair.html][2003/11/16/1535891]]) It's not for nothing that Orton was referred to as *the Oscar Wilde of* /his time/.
195. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9554][Martin Luther]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/20/nyregion/public-lives-embracing-a-father-s-creation-if-not-his-tastes.html][2003/11/20/1536867]]) Tom Wolfe called Mr. Hartford ''*the Martin Luther of* /modern culture/,'' a zealot with ''the most flagrantly unfashionable taste anybody in New York had ever heard of.''
196. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339][Johann Sebastian Bach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/arts/city-ballet-review-celebrating-balanchine-from-kinky-to-classic.html][2003/11/27/1538569]]) Centenaries come and go, but celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Balanchine (Jan. 22, 1904) is not like an anniversary tribute to Bach (although Balanchine is certainly *the Bach of* /choreographers/).
197. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/opinion/how-women-won-the-holidays.html][2003/11/27/1538582]]) She was *the Martha Stewart of* /the pre-Civil War era/, filling up her hugely popular magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, with all sorts of advice about how to build a dream cottage, cook a seven-course dinner and decorate the perfect spring hat.
198. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272203][Van Morrison]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/movies/critic-s-notebook-old-songs-revisited-by-voices-of-today.html][2003/11/28/1538813]]) This Irish singer-songwriter projects a raw, undiluted passion whose intensity recalls Jeff Buckley and *the Van Morrison of* ''Astral Weeks.''+
199. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34970][D. H. Lawrence]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/books/urban-studies.html][2003/11/30/1539110]]) In its wake Perry is left feeling like ''*the D. H. Lawrence of* /not doing it/, the voice of all the would-be lovers who ached and squirmed.''
200. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/realestate/streetscapes-readers-questions-uptown-mansions-houston-st-families-terra-cotta.html][2003/11/30/1539168]]) When he died in 1904, The New York Times called him ''*the Napoleon of* /China/.''
201. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211082][Tara Reid]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/style/the-age-of-dissonance-this-city-is-skin-deep.html][2003/11/30/1539300]]) She could be *the Tara Reid of* /her day/.
202. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/travel/journeys-south-beach-from-hot-to-cold-back-to-hot-again.html][2003/12/05/1540519]]) ''South Beach is *the Madonna of* /the resort industry/ -- reinvents itself every year or so to keep up with the times and the trends and the demands of vacationers,'' said Dindy Yokel, a public-relations representative.
203. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125121][Aretha Franklin]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/arts/music-alicia-keys-fights-for-soul-s-survival.html][2003/12/07/1540993]]) Ms. Keys remakes a 1970 hit by Ms. Knight, ''If I Were Your Woman,'' and offers two direct homages to *the Aretha Franklin of* ''A Natural Woman.''+
204. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944744][Bill Bailey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/books/sax-and-the-city.html][2003/12/14/1542792]]) YOU might guess from the title that, despite Vidamía's best efforts, things do not work out as planned for Billy Farrell, whom the novel loosely connects with *the Bill Bailey of* the old Dixieland standard.+
205. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/nyregion/paper-pencil-and-a-dream.html][2003/12/14/1543179]]) He was *the Robin Hood of* /the whole neighborhood/.''
206. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486096][Theodore Dreiser]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/17/books/he-loved-the-south-but-painted-its-evils-in-words.html][2003/12/17/1543794]]) He worked on a Gulf of Mexico freighter, was arrested for vagrancy in Bogalusa, La., worked in a Maine bookstore, delivered milk in Washington, jerked orange soda in Philadelphia and stocked glassware in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. All the while he was mentally preparing to become *the Theodore Dreiser of* /his generation/.
207. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314384][Huey Long]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/opinion/the-great-surrender.html][2003/12/23/1545369]]) On the stump he seems too decent and admirable a guy to take on Howard Dean, *the Huey Long of* /the iPod set/.
208. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/24/arts/songs-by-a-man-with-heart-mean-christmas-in-brazil.html][2003/12/24/1545699]]) ''He could with good reason be called *the Elvis of* /Brazil/,'' Mr. Veloso wrote in ''Tropical Truth,'' his recently published autobiography.
209. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238948][Typhoid Mary]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/25/opinion/l-a-beef-scare-adding-to-the-jitters-704725.html][2003/12/25/1545895]]) The United States will soon discover what it feels like to be *the Typhoid Mary of* /the beef world/.
210. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186492][George S. Patton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/sports/sports-times-sports-world-it-s-hard-forgive-behavior-actions-some-people.html][2003/12/26/1546018]]) It is difficult to be loving and kind and generous, at this point, to Bob Knight, who, at the seemingly adult age of 63, envisions himself as *the General Patton of* /Hoops/ and who still believes he can get away with any schoolyard obscene gesture simply because, well, he is Bob Knight, the General Patton of Hoops.
211. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186492][George S. Patton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/26/sports/sports-times-sports-world-it-s-hard-forgive-behavior-actions-some-people.html][2003/12/26/1546018]]) It is difficult to be loving and kind and generous, at this point, to Bob Knight, who, at the seemingly adult age of 63, envisions himself as the General Patton of Hoops and who still believes he can get away with any schoolyard obscene gesture simply because, well, he is Bob Knight, *the General Patton of* /Hoops/.+ (D)
212. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434513][Alice Waters]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/27/us/helen-gustafson-74-dies-championed-fine-tea-in-america.html][2003/12/27/1546122]]) She was ''*the Alice Waters of* /the tea movement/,'' said a friend, Ruth Reichl, editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and former restaurant critic of The New York Times, in a reference to the founder of Chez Panisse.
213. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311070][Davy Crockett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-birth-of-a-vacation.html][2003/12/28/1546259]]) He blazed a great trail for suburban pioneers, *the Davy Crockett of* /the Interstates/.
214. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364415][Bill Parcells]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-head-coach.html][2003/12/28/1546283]]) Bowman was *the Bill Parcells of* /hockey/; he had a knack for terrifying grown, very highly paid men and making them worry about what the coach would think of next.
215. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q337470][Howard Dean]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/28/us/from-patrician-roots-dean-set-path-of-prickly-independence.html][2003/12/28/1546585]]) Even Republicans in Vermont acknowledge that on many issues -- certainly fiscal ones -- *the Howard Dean of* recent national fame is not the political animal they remember from his 11 years as governor.+
216. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9077][Moses]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/30/opinion/l-when-maxie-and-leach-stepped-into-the-ring-762881.html][2003/12/30/1546990]]) Leach Cross, ''the fighting dentist,'' not Benny Leonard, was *the Moses of* /American Jewish boxing/ (Sports pages, Dec. 27).

** 2004
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/dining/flavors-fresher-than-sushi.html][2004/01/07/1548718]]) The owner of Sumile, a Japanese pop star called Miwa Yoshida (Mr. DeChellis describes her as ''*the Madonna of* /Japan/''), often sends him to cook and learn at her brother's upscale izakaya in Tokyo.
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133054][Sylvia Plath]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/photography-review-diane-arbus-a-hunter-wielding-a-lens.html][2004/01/09/1549236]]) The cliché of her as *the Sylvia Plath of* /photographers/, combined with the way her photographs direct your attention to her presence, can obscure the difference between what is in the pictures and what we might like to read into them.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/movies/critic-s-choice-dance-two-arts-of-movement-join-forces-for-a-festival.html][2004/01/09/1549238]]) The directors include New York's own Mitchell Rose, once known as *the Woody Allen of* /modern-dance choreography/.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/12/us/letter-from-washington-a-primary-without-representation-respect-or-fanfare.html][2004/01/12/1550194]]) ''It's a reinforcement of our political status as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the Democratic Party/,'' said Mark Plotkin, a local radio commentator.
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82778][Pliny the Elder]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/arts/the-joke-is-on-liberals-says-dennis-miller-host-of-his-own-show-again.html][2004/01/15/1550806]]) ''Here was Madden, *the Pliny the Elder of* /football announcers/.
6. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21342049][Andrew Atkins]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/nyregion/make-that-steak-a-bit-smaller-atkins-advises-today-s-dieters.html][2004/01/18/1551669]]) Dr. George L. Blackburn, associate director in the division of nutrition at Harvard Medical School, said the diet's new version is ''definitely healthier,'' but that ''all of the studies we have on Atkins are based on *the Atkins of* the 1970's: eat all you can as long as you keep carbs out.''+
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36105][Charles Bronson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/us/someone-is-stealing-avocados-and-guac-cops-are-on-the-case.html][2004/01/26/1553868]]) After thieves stole flowers from him recently, Mr. Price, who could become *the Charles Bronson of* /guacamole/, planted his hillsides with long-thorned finger cactus -- ''enough to completely engulf the valley,'' he said.
8. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3240753][Lil Twist]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/28/dining/food-stuff-a-voyage-to-the-spice-islands-at-the-twist-of-a-wrist.html][2004/01/28/1554230]]) A Voyage to the Spice Islands At *the Twist of* a Wrist+
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/arts/dance-the-sincerest-form-of-flannery.html][2004/02/01/1555241]]) ROBERTS -- That's a far cry from the man who was once called *the Muhammad Ali of* /dance/.
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/04/arts/critic-s-notebook-no-requiem-for-classical-cd-s-please.html][2004/02/04/1556102]]) The British cultural critic Norman Lebrecht has been *the Cassandra of* /classical music/.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31083][Wilma Rudolph]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/sports/sports-of-the-times-marion-jones-returns-to-a-changed-sport.html][2004/02/05/1556450]]) She is *the Wilma Rudolph of* /her generation/, quite capable of breaking molds and barriers, becoming not only a great female athlete, but one of the greatest runners of all time.
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/movies/film-review-the-block-goes-bourgeois-and-barbers-draw-scissors.html][2004/02/06/1556595]]) Eddie gets provocative lines, like ''The D.C. sniper is like *the Jackie Robinson of* /crime/,'' nuggets guaranteed to cause squabbles.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/arts/art-in-review-antoine-louis-barye-and-the-american-collector.html][2004/02/06/1556771]]) Hailed in his time as ''*the Michelangelo of* /the menagerie/,'' and today as France's greatest animalier, or portrayer of animals, Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) applied a robust realism to his portrayal of beasts and reptiles as well as humans.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237354][Diane Warren]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/arts/and-its-worst.html][2004/02/08/1557103]]) And the answer is pretty much Linda Perry, the former 4 Non Blondes singer whose work on Pink's ''Missundaztood'' has turned Ms. Perry into *the Diane Warren of* /the edgy set/.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7314][Igor Stravinsky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/13/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-365661.html][2004/02/13/1558419]]) A screening of ''Off the Charts'' will be followed by NRBQ playing its favorite song-poems with the saxophonist Ellery Eskelin -- son of Rodd Keith, *the Stravinsky of* /song-poem composers/ -- and with the song-poem tunesmith David Fox.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129087][Ethel Merman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/theater/theater-review-patti-lupone-shows-she-still-can-can.html][2004/02/14/1558667]]) At that point, with her rafter-shaking alto and steamroller presence, she seemed destined to become *the Ethel Merman of* /her generation/, and it was fitting when she took the Merman part in a 1987 revival of ''Anything Goes.''
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5394549][Ernie Isley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/movies/oscar-films-the-performances-in-close-up-best-actor-333646.html][2004/02/15/1558923]]) At no point does he upstage the other actors in the film; he may be *the Ernie Isley of* /movie actors/.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260683][Grandma Moses]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/17/movies/new-dvd-s-some-long-delayed-films-finally-make-it-to-disk.html][2004/02/17/1559544]]) In another interview Mr. Widmark calls Fuller *the Grandma Moses of* /filmmakers/, primitive, direct and journalistic.
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/arts/what-did-jesus-really-look-like.html][2004/02/21/1560446]]) Whatever arguments there may be about the verisimilitude of Mel Gibson's film ''The Passion of the Christ,'' one thing is certain: this Jesus is a Hollywood hunk who probably bears little resemblance to what *the Jesus of* history looked like.+
20. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/nyregion/news-summary-488160.html][2004/02/21/1560496]]) How Jesus Really Looked  Jim Caviezel, the dark-haired, blue-eyed star with brooding good looks who plays Jesus in ''The Passion of the Christ,'' is a Hollywood hunk who probably bears little resemblance to what *the Jesus of* history looked like.+
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190152][Larry Bird]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/21/sports/sports-of-the-times-an-aging-role-model-who-can-still-get-em-out.html][2004/02/21/1560506]]) To these eyes, Maddux has been *the Larry Bird of* /baseball/, unprepossessing-appearing until you had to go one-on-one with him, and then there was no bottom to his bag of wiles and talents.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316906][Philippe Starck]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/magazine/the-new-collectibles-258490.html][2004/02/22/1560626]]) Since 2001, Hardy has also created shoes for Balenciaga, in a close collaboration with the label's designer Nicolas Ghesquière that has finally seen him transcend his cult status to emerge as *the Philippe Starck of* /the stack heel/.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129591][Hugh Jackman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/theater/spring-theater-a-matter-of-no-small-change-caroline-s-broadway-angels.html][2004/02/22/1560717]]) (Ms. Tesori refers to him as ''*the Hugh Jackman of* /arts and letters/.'')
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q293534][Oscar De La Hoya]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/nyregion/working-atlantic-city-s-corners.html][2004/02/22/1560800]]) ''But Arturo Gatti is *the Oscar De La Hoya of* /New Jersey/,'' Mr. DiBella continued, referring to the Los Angeles-based world super-welterweight champ, whose inspired crowds cheer start-to-finish at all his fights.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128121][Mick Jagger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/style/a-night-out-with-chromeo-guys-just-want-to-dance.html][2004/02/22/1560819]]) King Kino, *the Mick Jagger of* /the up-tempo style of Haitian music called konpa/, was about to take the stage at S.O.B.'s.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83359][James Dean]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/style/possessed-a-horn-that-sings-of-smoky-clubs.html][2004/02/22/1560826]]) Nowadays, the sax has a nostalgic quality of 1950's-era disillusion -- *the James Dean of* /instruments/.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367566][Yogi Berra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/theater/theater-shtetl-shtick.html][2004/02/29/1562506]]) The Tevye of ''Fiddler'' is *the Yogi Berra of* /Anatevka/, a twinkly eyed, malapropism-spouting buffoon who carries on a running conversation with God that sounds like a monologue by a borscht belt comic.
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/arts/critic-s-notebook-passion-for-tango-west-coast-and-east.html][2004/03/03/1563330]]) Both elements enter a vastly broader and more complex world in the music of Astor Piazzolla, certainly *the Michelangelo of* /tango music/.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2586583][Henny Youngman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/books/books-of-the-times-a-dizzying-ride-on-the-turntable.html][2004/03/05/1563840]]) Together Mr. Yetnikoff and Mr. Ritz devise a kind of sitcom snappiness that turns Mr. Yetnikoff into *the Henny Youngman of* /CBS/.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5402192][Margaret Keane]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/09/nyregion/fashion-diary-designers-ride-into-the-sunset-martians-invade-the-runway.html][2004/03/09/1564959]]) To a baby boomer, the Australian Gemma Ward, the Canadian teenager Heather Marks or the current Italian Vogue cover girl Lisa Cant also bear some resemblance to the waifs painted by the kitsch master Margaret Keane, as well as to subjects favored by the painter John Currin, whom some might call *the Margaret Keane of* /the Whitney Biennial set/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154538][Daniel Libeskind]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/11/arts/giving-neo-classical-little-more-neo-architect-who-quietly-battles-trends-finds.html][2004/03/11/1565401]]) His mentor is Vitruvius, *the Daniel Libeskind of* /Rome in the first century B.C./
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/theater/family-fare.html][2004/03/12/1565663]]) The architect of Puma's turnaround, its 40-year-old chief executive, Jochen Zeitz, said that Puma was poised to raise sales at least 10 percent in 2004 as the company, the world's No.5 maker of athletic shoes, burnishes its image as *the Cinderella of* /sport shoes/.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285536][Imelda Marcos]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/12/nyregion/public-lives-at-health-center-fighting-obesity-is-no-joke.html][2004/03/12/1565765]]) Ms. Minch, known by her staff as *the Imelda Marcos of* /Ryan Center/ (her office décor is dominated by shoe-shaped ceramic collectibles), buys her size 6 1/2 stilettos in Puerto Rico, her destination whenever she takes a breather from the scramble for good health care for the underinsured, and in 35 percent of the cases, uninsured, patients who compose Ryan's client base.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348603][Howard Stern]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/style/an-old-question-for-a-new-crowd-can-we-talk.html][2004/03/14/1566280]]) ''She's *the Howard Stern of* /the red carpet/,'' said Ms. Gubelmann, who first became aware of Ms. Rivers while watching her QVC sales pitch.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11860][Silvio Berlusconi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/world/bold-thai-leader-faces-growing-criticism.html][2004/03/14/1566371]]) In the capital, intellectuals refer to Mr. Thaksin as *the Berlusconi of* /Asia/, a reference to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, a business tycoon who has faced continuing accusations of conflict of interest.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381728][George Stubbs]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/art-review-a-thousand-year-treasury-of-chinese-masterpieces.html][2004/03/19/1567405]]) The portrait of Night-Shining White, from the idealizing brush of Han Gan, a leading horse painter of the Tang dynasty (active 742-756) -- *the George Stubbs of* /his day/, so to speak -- is intended to evoke a dragon in disguise, a celestial being with supernatural powers.
37. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22316][John Kerry]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/us/the-2004-campaign-the-president-90-day-strategy-by-bush-s-aides-to-define-kerry.html][2004/03/20/1567705]]) After 19 Years Voting in Senate, *the Kerry of* Today Is Far From the Kerry of 1985+
38. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22316][John Kerry]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/us/the-2004-campaign-the-president-90-day-strategy-by-bush-s-aides-to-define-kerry.html][2004/03/20/1567705]]) After 19 Years Voting in Senate, the Kerry of Today Is Far From *the Kerry of* 1985+
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12334423][Sam Malone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/nyregion/welcome-wheels.html][2004/03/21/1567972]]) Referring to the bartender in ''Cheers,'' she added, ''He's like *the Sam Malone of* /the U.P.S./
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/business/an-outsourcing-giant-fights-back.html][2004/03/21/1568087]]) TO his compatriots, Azim Premji is *the Bill Gates of* /India/.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17714][Stephen Hawking]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/opinion/quid-pro-quack.html][2004/03/21/1568110]]) That incandescent intellect, *the Stephen Hawking of* /jurisprudence/, has been kind enough to take time from his busy schedule to explain to us how the Republic really works.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364187][Frederick Law Olmsted]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/us/he-measures-oakland-s-beat-and-parks-bloom-in-return.html][2004/03/21/1568169]]) Less familiar is the tale of its rejuvenation by a 45-year-old landscape architect who is becoming *the Frederick Law Olmsted of* /the city's dispossessed neighborhoods/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/us/threats-responses-terrorism-expert-go-guy-sheds-bureaucrat-s-anonymity.html][2004/03/24/1568877]]) ''He's *the Mozart of* /bureaucrats/.''
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1405][Augustus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/arts/antiques-in-the-art-world-a-conquest-by-christianity.html][2004/03/26/1569218]]) He became co-emperor with Licinius, known as *the Augustus of* /the East/.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319682][Louis B. Mayer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/us/the-alamo-of-the-big-screen-tries-to-skirt-the-fate-of-the-original.html][2004/03/26/1569312]]) She is the widow of Alamo Village's founder, James T. Shahan, *the Louis B. Mayer of* /Brackettville moviemaking/, who in 1995, the year before his death, was named ''father of the Texas movie industry'' by Gov.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232019][Erin Brockovich]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/opinion/see-dick-spin.html][2004/03/27/1569473]]) Liberals see him as *the Erin Brockovich of* /the Bush years/.
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8016][Winston Churchill]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/opinion/see-dick-spin.html][2004/03/27/1569473]]) But now Clinton is portrayed as *the Winston Churchill of* /the antiterror brigades/, and Bush is Neville Chamberlain.
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/books/the-reign-of-terroir.html][2004/03/28/1569636]]) Brooding over Osborne's adventure like an implacable Greek god -- the anti-Dionysus, perhaps -- is the ''all-powerful'' American wine critic Robert Parker, who sees himself as *the Ralph Nader of* /wine/, the incorruptible gatekeeper of the American palate.
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/sports/a-star-in-japan-always-looking-in.html][2004/03/28/1569940]]) Oh, who is considered *the Babe Ruth of* /Japanese baseball/ because of his 868 career homers, was managing the Hawks at the time.
50. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432128][Kasparov]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/nyregion/chess-letting-victories-slip-away-that-s-not-the-kasparov-of-old.html][2004/04/04/1571647]]) That's Not *the Kasparov of* Old+
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5387668][Eric Valent]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/sports/baseball-woozy-mets-staggering-before-real-fight-begins.html][2004/04/05/1572012]]) Neither did the Mets, but here they are, heading to Atlanta for opening day, hoping to become *the Eric Valent of* /this season/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80739][Charlton Heston]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/sports/sports-of-the-times-augusta-can-t-shield-bosses-from-burk.html][2004/04/08/1572556]]) THESE days, Hootie Johnson is unable to blast what he can't see, forcing *the Charlton Heston of* /Magnolia Lane/ to lay down his musket.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8023][Nelson Mandela]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/opinion/l-the-invasion-as-experiment-145211.html][2004/04/09/1572846]]) Where is *the Nelson Mandela of* /Iraq/?
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/tv/cover-story-capturing-the-glint-in-oberon-s-eyes.html][2004/04/18/1574879]]) In his own way, Ashton was *the Shakespeare of* /ballet/, less like the playwright who composed revenge tragedies than the poet who wrote love sonnets.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128121][Mick Jagger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/world/muckraking-accountant-stirs-canada-s-political-scene.html][2004/04/18/1575170]]) But she is breaking some of the nation's most delicate political china, so much so that one recent Vancouver newspaper article described her as the ''*the Mick Jagger of* /the accounting profession/.''
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8023][Nelson Mandela]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/sports/auto-racing-10-years-after-death-driver-s-legend-grows.html][2004/04/25/1576723]]) ''He's old,'' Abdul Hadi said, ''he's losing control, but he can't accept the idea of leaving the stage gracefully or trying to become *the Mandela of* /Palestine/.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721948][Nolan Ryan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/sports/on-baseball-cy-young-winners-spar-in-the-national-league.html][2004/04/25/1576914]]) Clemens is demonstrating that he is *the Nolan Ryan of* /this pitching generation/.
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/technology/resurrecting-the-riffs-a-nintendo-rock-band.html][2004/04/29/1577716]]) Mr. Kondo, Nintendo's in-house composer, wrote the Super Mario Brothers theme and is regarded by aficionados as *the Mozart of* /video game composers/.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35332][Brad Pitt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/theater/theater-review-theater-and-dinner-whirred-up-in-a-blender.html][2004/04/29/1577732]]) Mr. Florence, described later in the show as ''*the Brad Pitt of* /the Food Network/,'' made his entrance and prepared an avocado-and-seared-tuna appetizer, a roast poussin with garden purée and, for dessert, a basil panna cotta.
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192236][Thomas à Beckett]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/business/market-place-a-meddlesome-priest-of-sorts-on-wall-street.html][2004/05/01/1578230]]) One banker even referred to Mr. Reed, who has been known for his deep streak of Presbyterian rectitude since his days at Citicorp, as *the Thomas à Beckett of* /Wall Street/.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q339838][Emeril Lagasse]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/theater/shakespearean-diet-pasta-no-coffee.html][2004/05/08/1579929]]) He was *the Emeril Lagasse of* /his time/, gaining notoriety while working in several noble households and famous for such stunts as baking a deer-shaped loaf of bread that bled wine when pricked.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4441][Emily Dickinson]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/movies/moviesspecial/summer-releases-may.html][2004/05/09/1580170]]) He was becoming sort of *the Emily Dickinson of* /his era/: it is said that he found interacting with other people torture, and after he finished school he rarely left his parents' home.
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203401][Edward Hopper]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/movies/moviesspecial/summer-releases-june.html][2004/05/09/1580172]]) BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS -- The author, poet and cult figure Charles Bukowski (1920-94) was a little like *the Edward Hopper of* /his genres/.
64. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41746][Achilles]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/movies/at-the-movies-at-least-good-vanquishes-evil.html][2004/05/10/1580627]]) ''It's hard to seek out the Tillmans, the Arthurs, *the Achilles of* the world.+
65. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182011][Antonio Stradivari]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/arts/for-the-coolest-vibes-accentuate-acoustics-eliminate-city-noise.html][2004/05/12/1581028]]) (The Village Vanguard, *the Stradivarius of* jazz clubs, has a capacity of 123.)+
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457840][Will Rogers]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/us/2004-campaign-evangelical-christians-warily-religious-leader-lifts-his-voice.html][2004/05/13/1581303]]) ''I think he is *the Will Rogers of* /the Christian world/,'' Mr. Vermillion said in a telephone interview.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310588][Dennis Kucinich]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/theater/theater-the-tony-awards-the-best-tony-fight-in-years.html][2004/05/23/1583723]]) (An informal survey of Tony voters suggests that Ms. D'Abruzzo, the perky, quirky puppeteer from ''Avenue Q,'' is *the Dennis Kucinich of* /this campaign/.)
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q342778][Pat Boone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/style/just-browsing-opening-13-cans-of-whoop.html][2004/05/23/1583885]]) It's *the Pat Boone of* /energy drinks/, an upbeat, peppy blend of apple, pear and carrot juice tweaked with hints of this and that to bend it in the direction of grapefruit and strawberry.
69. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/travel/driving-my-life-my-mercedes-cl500.html][2004/05/28/1584995]]) I spend the summers in Charlotte, N.C., where I play for *the Sting of* the Women's National Basketball Association.+
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456921][Paul O'Neill]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/weekinreview/the-nation-off-message-discipline-takes-a-break-at-the-white-house.html][2004/05/30/1585380]]) Maureen Orth could be *the Paul O'Neill of* /Condé Nast/!
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216936][Sean Combs]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/magazine/style-the-other-side-of-paradise.html][2004/05/30/1585401]]) ''Dance hall is faster than reggae,'' says Paul, 31, known here as *the Sean Combs of* /Jamaica/.
72. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72911][Oliver Hardy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/realestate/streetscapes-readers-questions-macy-s-building-cafeteria-2-riverside-drive.html][2004/05/30/1585469]]) 169 played a Stan Laurel to *the Oliver Hardy of* No.+
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/sports/hockey-flames-captain-surveys-ice-and-sees-specks-of-color.html][2004/05/30/1585791]]) But now that he is a finalist for the Hart trophy as most valuable player for the second time and participating in the championship round for the first time, Iginla responded enthusiastically when asked questions about how he would feel to be known as *the Tiger Woods of* /hockey/.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201608][Dennis Rodman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/sports/gymnastics-a-modern-athlete-with-a-twist.html][2004/06/03/1586550]]) ''I like to say that she's *the Dennis Rodman of* /her sport/,'' Joy Schwikert said at one of Tasha's workouts last week, there just to reassure the coach that her daughter wouldn't behave badly.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6107][Tupac Shakur]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/movies/film-dead-poet-s-insobriety.html][2004/06/06/1587118]]) Bukowski is *the Tupac Shakur of* /American literature/: dead, he seems to be as prolific as when he was alive.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/nyregion/fashion-designers-bestow-some-blue-ribbons-on-themselves.html][2004/06/09/1588048]]) That he isn't really a designer but a man of many parts -- rap artist, record producer, St. Tropez party animal and, most recently, Broadway star -- is probably one reason he was on his way to becoming *the Susan Lucci of* /fashion/.
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q431015][David Koresh]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/nyregion/our-towns-hearings-haunted-by-the-governors-of-scandals-past.html][2004/06/09/1588068]]) ''Rowland has become *the David Koresh of* /Connecticut politics/,'' said Roy Occhiogrosso, a consultant who was the campaign manager for William E. Curry, a Democrat whom Mr. Rowland defeated in 2002.
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329466][Freddy Krueger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/sports/sports-of-the-times-newark-should-step-back-from-dance-with-devils.html][2004/06/09/1588152]]) ''It's *the Freddy Krueger of* /sports-arena projects/,'' said Manuel Lavin, an activist from the Ironbound community in Newark's East Ward.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q451185][Matthew Barney]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/movies/tv-weekend-no-business-like-the-funeral-business.html][2004/06/11/1588482]]) Nate and David's younger sister, Claire (Lauren Ambrose), still mired in alienation and slacker ennui, says of an attractive boy in her art class that he is *the Matthew Barney of* /their school/ but she is ''so not'' Bjork.
80. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/12/world/the-saturday-profile-an-ex-telemarketer-s-other-life-as-a-buddhist-saint.html][2004/06/12/1588740]]) This pleasant young man from Colorado in a short-sleeved white shirt has been identified by *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet as the latest of many reincarnations of a Buddhist saint who lived in northern India 400 or 500 years ago.+
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34012][Marlon Brando]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/magazine/style-dressed-to-the-9-irons.html][2004/06/13/1588869]]) Ben Hogan played to win in cuffed trousers, argyle cashmere and bespoke spats; Arnold Palmer was *the Marlon Brando of* /golf/ in tight, bicep-revealing shirts; and Payne Stewart's plus fours and tam-o'-shanter -- not to mention his habit of wearing the N.F.L.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92566][Flash Gordon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/16/nyregion/about-new-york-a-store-devoted-to-pleasure-draws-a-disgruntled-crowd.html][2004/06/16/1589810]]) But City Councilman Michael McMahon has become *the Flash Gordon of* /Staten Island/, determined to vanquish the planet of pleasure.
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174908][Michael Moore]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/movies/finding-echoes-of-iraq-war-in-a-film-about-vietnam.html][2004/06/17/1590100]]) Instead of an acceptance speech, Mr. Schneider, whom Mr. Davis called *the Michael Moore of* /his day/, read a statement from the provisional Vietnamese government.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q583448][Roger Tory Peterson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/garden/design-notebook-defining-sprawl-from-a-to-z.html][2004/06/17/1590120]]) Conceived as a dictionary encompassing 51 species, from alligator to zoomburb (a city in the suburbs growing faster than a boomburb) the guide may well establish Ms. Hayden as *the Roger Tory Peterson of* /sprawl/.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/18/arts/art-review-politics-that-makes-peace-with-the-beauty-of-objects.html][2004/06/18/1590211]]) These two views have faced off in opposing corners of the art world boxing ring for the better part of a century, ever since Marcel Duchamp, *the Muhammad Ali of* /Western modernism/, came floating and stinging onto the scene and messed with the protocols and the expectations of the game.
86. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/world/where-chess-is-king-and-the-people-are-the-pawns.html][2004/06/20/1590832]]) An elaborate complex will stand ready for *the Dalai Lama of* Tibet if he should choose to visit.+
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713760][Early Wynn]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/sports/on-baseball-braves-again-have-last-laugh-as-estrada-proves-his-worth.html][2004/06/20/1590895]]) Fred McGriff is *the Early Wynn of* /home run hitters/.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/art-review-artists-who-just-say-no-to-everything.html][2004/06/25/1591928]]) Ms. Schaffner calls Warhol ''*the Elvis of* /nothing/,'' writing that his work, in ''an era of compliant consumer culture,'' was like ''a mirror facing a vacuum.''
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/30/books/books-of-the-times-birds-in-battle-high-above-human-flights-of-folly.html][2004/06/30/1593193]]) Though ingenious and witty and a fine teller of contemporary quips and quirks, Mr. Neate is closer to *the Cassandra of* /a doomed city-state/.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875][Oscar Wilde]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/03/arts/a-comedian-is-serious-about-winning-new-york.html][2004/07/03/1593862]]) British critics called him dark and bold and ''*the Oscar Wilde of* /stand-up/.''
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/tv/movies-critic-s-choice.html][2004/07/04/1594224]]) ''It's *the Elvis of* /engines/.''
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/arts/lincoln-center-festival-review-the-rarely-seen-side-of-a-brilliant-choreographer.html][2004/07/08/1595061]]) This was Ashton, *the Shakespeare of* /ballet/ -- the Shakespeare who wrote love sonnets.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129443][Orlando Hernández]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/sports/baseball-baseball-analysis-the-pitching-problems-are-not-going-away.html][2004/07/08/1595185]]) The more Cashman spoke, the more it sounded as if the Yankees were desperately praying that *the Orlando Hernández of* 2004 could be the El Duque of 1998.+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/sports/olympics-after-tribulations-come-the-trials.html][2004/07/09/1595426]]) ''But I think she's getting stronger as the Olympics get closer, because it's sort of like she's *the Muhammad Ali of* /her era/.
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231001][Amanda Beard]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/sports/olympics-a-new-crop-of-youngsters-emerges-at-the-trials.html][2004/07/11/1596074]]) Hoff said she never thought she would become *the Amanda Beard of* /this meet/.
96. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37079][Tom Cruise]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/arts/film-spidey-crushes-fahrenheit-in-2004.html][2004/07/11/1596145]]) As a man locked in a war against terror, Peter Parker could not be further removed from the hubristic bravura of Mr. Bush and his own cinematic model, *the Tom Cruise of* Top Gun.There s nothing triumphalist about Spider-Man; he would never declare Mission Accomplished after a passing victory, and his very creed is antithetical to the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war.+
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/movies/new-dvd-s-bertolucci-s-odd-young-people-in-a-revolution.html][2004/07/13/1596311]]) Shot on digital video by *the Rembrandt of* /the medium/, Anthony Dod Mantle (''Dogville''), the film runs a brief 75 minutes, but any more than that would definitely be overkill.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/15/garden/in-silicon-valley-tear-down-interrupted.html][2004/07/15/1596782]]) Daniel Jackling has been called *the Henry Ford of* /minerals/, developing the process by which copper is extracted from low-grade ore and pioneering the open-pit copper strip mine.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/15/sports/olympics-where-have-all-the-runners-gone.html][2004/07/15/1596883]]) He would be *the Tiger Woods of* /track/.
100. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57959][Jan Ullrich]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/sports/sports-of-the-times-man-versus-mountain-is-stage-for-ages.html][2004/07/21/1598305]]) When one slumping star made an early move, Liggett hailed a sighting of ''*the Jan Ullrich of* old.''+
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/nyregion/our-towns-an-artist-s-masterpiece-until-the-next-storm-arrives.html][2004/07/21/1598324]]) And given the presence of the 1971 baby blue Volkswagen bus across the road, the wise bet would be Mr. Staab, something of *the Johnny Appleseed of* /environmental art/, who for two decades has been traversing the world, constructing loops, rings, stars and Mobius strips out of reeds, willows, knotweed and maple saplings.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34660][J. K. Rowling]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/28/books/books-of-the-times-in-a-topsy-turvy-life-finding-her-secret-garden.html][2004/07/28/1599849]]) Burnett was *the J. K. Rowling of* /her time/ and grew wealthy creating loving portraits of children in books like ''A Little Princess'' and ''Little Lord Fauntleroy.''
103. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3925][Grace Kelly]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/movies/film-review-erotic-suspense-after-mistaken-identity.html][2004/07/30/1600314]]) Imagine *the Grace Kelly of* ''Rear Window'' or the Kim Novak of ''Vertigo'' sprawled seductively on an analyst's couch, smoking cigarettes and confiding her sexual frustration to a repressed, wide-eyed shrink who is obsessed with her.+
104. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212879][Kim Novak]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/movies/film-review-erotic-suspense-after-mistaken-identity.html][2004/07/30/1600314]]) Imagine the Grace Kelly of ''Rear Window'' or *the Kim Novak of* ''Vertigo'' sprawled seductively on an analyst's couch, smoking cigarettes and confiding her sexual frustration to a repressed, wide-eyed shrink who is obsessed with her.+
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26702][Cardinal Richelieu]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/opinion/a-show-called-hope.html][2004/08/01/1601013]]) To Ilana Wexler, the unbearably cute 12-year-old who ventured that Vice President Dick Cheney, *the Cardinal Richelieu of* /his age/, needs ''to be put in a timeout''?
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1346641][Johnnie Cochran]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/world/the-reach-of-war-the-law-making-wheels-of-justice-turn-in-a-chaotic-iraq.html][2004/08/01/1601036]]) Fuaad Ahmed al-Jawary, attorney at law, has become *the Johnnie Cochran of* /the insurgency/, and as the resistance continues, his criminal defense practice has soared.
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100937][Fred Astaire]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/arts/art-review-the-convention-of-beastly-beauty.html][2004/08/06/1601939]]) Matisse, to early 20th-century eyes a purveyor of ugliness, has become *the Fred Astaire of* /Modernism/.
108. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q724193][Rulon Gardner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/sports/olympics-russians-expectations-are-still-high.html][2004/08/11/1603244]]) Aleksandr Karelin, the superheavyweight Olympic and world champion wrestler -- who lost to *the Rulon Gardner of* the United States in Sydney in one of the sport's greatest upsets -- said in an interview that the core of the old system remained in place despite all the changes Russia has gone through.+
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308441][Eppie Lederer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/19/us/benicia-journal-referee-at-the-crossroads-of-humans-and-wildlife.html][2004/08/19/1605112]]) This is where Gary Bogue, *the Ann Landers of* /California wildlife/, steps in.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/travel/havens-time-catches-up-with-a-georgia-eden.html][2004/08/20/1605193]]) ''Financially, they're trying to destroy us,'' said Mr. Burns, 52, whose critics have painted him as *the Donald Trump of* /Tybee/.
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1387173][Jim McKay]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/sports/tv-sports-enough-from-our-sponsors-let-a-lyric-poet-weigh-in.html][2004/08/20/1605274]]) PINDAR -- Yes, they called me *the Jim McKay of* /the ancient Games/.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47899][Paris Hilton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/22/style/weddings-celebrations-ada-schjeldahl-jerry-medlin.html][2004/08/22/1605755]]) Mr. Medlin, 29, is a performance artist known as Neal Medlyn whose one-man show, ''Neal Medlyn, *the Paris Hilton of* /Performance Art/'' will be part of the Howl!
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366355][Van Cliburn]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/movies/accordionist-on-a-mission-in-the-age-of-guitars.html][2004/08/27/1606819]]) I'm not always looking to track down the latest competition winner, or the person on a singular mission to be *the Van Cliburn of* /the accordion/, although I have nothing against them.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/magazine/the-consensus-thief.html][2004/08/29/1607181]]) would love the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, in many ways *the Garbo of* /American invitational art surveys/ -- revered but aloof, never garnering the mainstream brouhaha of, say, the Whitney Biennial.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313367][Gary Coleman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/magazine/the-talk-teen-vogue.html][2004/08/29/1607221]]) It's a job so stressful that it's burned out adults like Isaac Mizrahi and Todd Oldham, neither of whom had to face the possibility of becoming *the Gary Coleman of* /fashion/ as soon as they stepped away from the sewing machine.
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767][T. S. Eliot]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/books/the-ironist-of-nostalgia.html][2004/08/29/1607257]]) The typical Justice poem is brief, uses simple diction decorated with the occasional archaism and is scored to a slow and sifting rhythm that recalls Wallace Stevens and *the T. S. Eliot of* ''Preludes.''+
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233937][Nancy Sinatra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/us/new-york-2004-new-york-going-out-clubs-crank-up-the-noise-level.html][2004/08/29/1607515]]) The show is headlined by Liz Phair, who is *the Nancy Sinatra of* /alternative rock/, alternately kittenish and aggressive in songs of self-assertion and troubled romance.
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19673][Al Gore]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/us/new-york-2004-republican-new-york-who-s-buried-in-grant-s-tomb.html][2004/08/29/1607549]]) Tilden, *the Al Gore of* /his day/, won a majority in the 1876 presidential election but lost the electoral vote.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/business/media-a-nike-veteran-adds-some-swoosh-to-disney-s-tired-mouse.html][2004/08/30/1607787]]) And Mr. Mooney hopes to turn Mickey and company into *the Martha Stewart of* /bed, books and apparel for children/, trading as much on Disney's reputation for quality (a draw for parents) as on its characters' appeal.
120. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3293732][Marissa Irvin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/31/sports/us-open-capriati-regains-control-after-losing-first-set.html][2004/08/31/1608129]]) She needed just an hour and 13 minutes to dispatch *the Marissa Irvin of* the United States, 6-4, 6-2, in the first center-court match of the day.+
121. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/politics/campaign/01arnold.html][2004/09/01/1608307]]) ''Arnold Schwarzenegger is *the John Wayne of* /the current generation/,'' said the Rev.
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8877][Steven Spielberg]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/movies/03TAEG.html][2004/09/03/1608668]]) The Korean filmmaker Kang Je-gyu is *the Steven Spielberg of* /East Asia/, and not just because his movies routinely become blockbusters.
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/nyregion/thecity/12bee.html][2004/09/12/1610869]]) Craig Ehrich, another board member, added: ''She's *the Ralph Nader of* /the board/.''
124. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/15/world/europe/the-alltoohuman-hitler-on-your-big-screen.html][2004/09/15/1611503]]) Some note that *the Hitler of* the film is almost a heroic figure who refuses to flee or capitulate in the face of the advancing Soviet Army, even as he is betrayed by one former acolyte after another.+
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297469][Leo Fender]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E6DC153CF93AA2575AC0A9629C8B63][2004/09/19/1612690]]) ''He's *the Leo Fender of* /synthesizers/,'' says Money Mark, a longtime keyboardist for the Beastie Boys, who is featured in the film.
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q959153][Frank Stallone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/books/20masl.html][2004/09/20/1612886]]) He can read the biblical story of Aaron and imagine ''*the Frank Stallone of* /ancient Judaism/.''
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q294927][Jerry Lewis]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/garden/23COLL.html][2004/09/23/1613516]]) To be accepted by the French will only confirm for skeptics here that Evans is *the Jerry Lewis of* /modern design/.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180748][Mark Spitz]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804EED61039F937A1575AC0A9629C8B63][2004/09/24/1613724]]) ''I need to stay fit to keep up with all the other geezers,'' said Biff Lowry, 77, who could be described as *the Mark Spitz of* /his generation/ (he took home seven gold medals in swimming at the Huntsman Games two years ago).
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314926][John Waters]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/24/movies/24RASP.html][2004/09/24/1613863]]) Mr. La Bruce has been called ''*the John Waters of* /Canada/,'' and on this day, when Mr.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182580][Shirley Temple]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/nyregion/26LI.html][2004/09/26/1614212]]) Shreya's dance teacher is Kamala Lakshmi Narayanan, once *the Shirley Temple of* /India/, who brought bharata natyam to the silver screen when she made her Bollywood debut at age 5.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1317][Osama bin Laden]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/nyregion/28nyc.html][2004/09/28/1614872]]) Accepted wisdom is that all of these companies are suffering because of diet fads that have made carbohydrates *the Osama bin Laden of* /nutrients/.
132. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q959153][Frank Stallone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/books/review/03QUEENAN.html][2004/10/03/1615895]]) Seems he was sort of *the Frank Stallone of* /ancient Judaism/.
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213430][Larry King]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/books/review/03QUEENAN.html][2004/10/03/1615895]]) Thus, Solomon, with his 700 wives and 300 concubines, is ''sort of *the Larry King of* /his day/.''
134. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152505][Leonard Bernstein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/arts/music/03oest.html][2004/10/03/1615964]]) But for this hardened older listener, at least, *the Bernstein of* this vintage comes off as the ideal dinner guest: brilliant, almost frighteningly articulate, warm, funny and wise.+
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/arts/the-guide.html][2004/10/03/1615981]]) Is Morrissey, now in his mid-40s, *the Elvis of* /our time/?
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1330714][Elisha Cook, Jr.]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/06/books/06marg.html][2004/10/06/1616802]]) Mr. Olney describes how Torre and the general managers Gene Michael and Brian Cashman (*the Elisha Cook Jr. of* /baseball executives/) put together their winning teams.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47899][Paris Hilton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/garden/07LEDS.html][2004/10/07/1617031]]) 's became *the Paris Hilton of* /lighting/, popping up everywhere.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168587][Sol LeWitt]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE5D9153BF93BA35753C1A9629C8B63][2004/10/08/1617580]]) She was *the Sol LeWitt of* /weaving/.
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37327][Samuel Beckett]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/books/review/the-double-the-tears-of-a-clone.html][2004/10/10/1617817]]) He has Kafka's petrified detachment, Céline's merry ferocity and the headlong, unstoppable style of *the Beckett of* ''Malone Dies'' and ''The Unnamable.''+
140. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7693675][Ted Rogers]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/arts/10rich.html][2004/10/10/1617906]]) In the 2004 replay *the Ted Rogers of* the story is, of all people, James A. Baker III, the Bush family consigliere who so cannily gamed the 2000 count in Florida, outsmarting the Gore forces at every turn.+
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/arts/television/reality-stars-keep-on-going-and-going.html][2004/10/10/1617915]]) ''I look at Richard Hatch, and he's *the Babe Ruth of* /this/,'' said Scott Zakarin, the chief executive of Creative Light Entertainment, which started a Web site in August called the Fishbowl, devoted to stars of unscripted television series.
142. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168587][Sol LeWitt]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E2DD1F3BF936A25753C1A9629C8B63][2004/10/15/1619262]]) She was *the Sol LeWitt of* /weaving/.+ (D)
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170042][Bill Monroe]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/arts/music/17play.html][2004/10/17/1619772]]) As if that weren't enough, he practically invented ambient music; he's *the Bill Monroe of* /the genre/.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529276][Studs Terkel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/realestate/17HABI.html][2004/10/17/1619857]]) She aspires to be *the Studs Terkel of* /American manufacturing/ and collects stories as avidly as she collects those Lloyd Schwan pieces.
145. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232280][Linda Blair]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/dining/reviews/20REST.html][2004/10/20/1620574]]) This dining room, in Greenwich Village, was cast as doomed, damned, possessed: *the Linda Blair of* /culinary environments/.
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107008][Count Basie]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3D9103AF931A15753C1A9629C8B63][2004/10/22/1621023]]) At 75, *the Count Basie of* /cocktail jazz piano/ still commands the keyboard with the authority of a sharpshooter who never misses.
147. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168587][Sol LeWitt]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE3D9103AF931A15753C1A9629C8B63][2004/10/22/1621023]]) She was *the Sol LeWitt of* /weaving/.+ (D)
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/nyregion/modern-comfort-food-the-furniture-version.html][2004/10/24/1621595]]) ''Whatever is new, is bad,'' said Nutting, who has been called *the Martha Stewart of* /his day/.
149. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207][George W. Bush]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/politics/campaign/26kstump.html][2004/10/26/1622241]]) Lifting from Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and from *the George W. Bush of* four years ago, Mr. Kerry pleads with audiences in these final days to ''vote your hopes, not your fears,'' to vote for ''an America where we unite people again,'' where there are no red or blue states but only ''one America -- red, white and blue -- for everyone.''+
150. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129087][Ethel Merman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/nyregion/27subway.html][2004/10/27/1622558]]) A train pulled in and Ms. Mendez -- who has become somewhat famous just for doing her job and unleashing her foghorn of a voice, which has earned her the nickname ''*the Ethel Merman of* /the subway/'' -- bounded into the crowd for the last time before her break, imposing order and enforcing manners.
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442202][Vanna White]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/nyregion/27subway.html][2004/10/27/1622558]]) ''I'm like *the Vanna White of* /the subway system/,'' she said.
152. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3176599][Jeff Suppan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/sports/baseball/27cards.html][2004/10/27/1622575]]) Ojeda was *the Jeff Suppan of* /another generation/.
153. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6166219][Martínez]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/sports/baseball/27araton.html][2004/10/27/1622577]]) His vintage showing last night aside, everybody realizes this is not *the Martínez of* his prime, the Cy Young winner who in 2000 struck out 284 hitters in 217 innings and pitched to a throwback earned run average of 1.74.+
154. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168587][Sol LeWitt]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E4D9133DF93AA15753C1A9629C8B63][2004/10/29/1623046]]) She was *the Sol LeWitt of* /weaving/.+ (D)
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2748186][Keith Foulke]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/politics/campaign/31trail.html][2004/10/31/1623665]]) And, as Election Day grew ever nearer, Mr. Kerry -- who is known as a good ''closer,'' *the Keith Foulke of* /political candidates/ -- seemed increasingly buoyed by the crowd.
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26702][Cardinal Richelieu]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/nyregion/31trenton.html][2004/10/31/1623696]]) James E. McGreevey's chief of staff, James P. Fox, has been called the governor's right hand, the head fixer, *the Cardinal Richelieu of* /the State House/.
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39829][Stephen King]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/01/books/01suzu.html][2004/11/01/1623833]]) This is because over the last decade Mr. Suzuki has written a series of horror novels and short stories that have earned him the title -- one that alternately annoys and flatters him -- of *the Stephen King of* /Japan/.
158. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/theater/reviews/searchengine-serendipity-and-frequentflier-miles.html][2004/11/05/1624728]]) Mr. Gorman, *the Picasso of* /procrastination/, proves that much can be accomplished by avoiding that next deadline.
159. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11459][Serena Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/magazine/cookie-master.html][2004/11/07/1625121]]) Hermé, *the Serena Williams of* /French sweets/, always wears black, so it is no surprise that his signature sablé is blackened with cocoa and bittersweet chocolate and spiked with challenging, crunchy shards of fleur de sel.
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298237][Benedict Arnold]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/books/review/07MARGOLI.html][2004/11/07/1625157]]) Blacks jumped on Johnson for this, and their very virulence -- ''Uncle Tom Johnson,'' ''*the Benedict Arnold of* /his race/'' and ''a jimson weed in the nostrils of those who once cheered him'' are only some of the epithets thrown his way -- suggests that their anger toward him was older and deeper than Ward represents.
161. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/07harlem.html][2004/11/07/1625608]]) She is known uptown as *the Ralph Nader of* /Harlem/.
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/business/media/11adco.html][2004/11/11/1626383]]) Enter Ms. Orman, *the Oprah Winfrey of* /financial planning/.
163. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/12/arts/music/granddaddy-of-piano-teachers-steps-out.html][2004/11/12/1626542]]) Still, Czerny's works embody a seismic stylistic shift from *the Beethoven of* the mature Classical period to the visionary Romanticism of Schumann and Liszt.+
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/travel/a-dutch-town-under-a-vermeer-sky.html][2004/11/14/1626966]]) We shared Delft's wet streets with mainly Dutch tourists, drawn by the intimacy and beauty of its old center and probably also by monuments associated with William of Orange, *the George Washington of* /the Netherlands/ who led an insurrection against the Spanish Hapsburgs in the 16th century.
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295080][Aaron Spelling]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/arts/music/14mcdo.html][2004/11/14/1627029]]) Juan Osorio, *the Aaron Spelling of* /Mexican television/, was so ready to gamble on Ms. Trevi's marketability that he signed her to a contract before she was acquitted; he created a soap opera, yet to be produced, based on her life, and figured out a way she could phone in her lines from jail in the event of her conviction.
166. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11675][Eliot Spitzer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/opinion/look-before-you-leap.html][2004/11/14/1627041]]) Back in 1997, Congressman Schumer was *the Eliot Spitzer of* /his day/.
167. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11675][Eliot Spitzer]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E2DC1F3CF937A25752C1A9629C8B63][2004/11/14/1627079]]) Back in 1997, Congressman Schumer was *the Eliot Spitzer of* /his day/.+ (D)
168. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11675][Eliot Spitzer]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E4D8163FF937A25752C1A9629C8B63][2004/11/14/1627186]]) Back in 1997, Congressman Schumer was *the Eliot Spitzer of* /his day/.+ (D)
169. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231417][Barbara Walters]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/16/fashion/16FRON.html][2004/11/16/1627639]]) ''I'll be like *the Barbara Walters of* /Barneys today/,'' he said.
170. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497827][Sam Walton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/politics/19speech.html][2004/11/19/1628364]]) And here in Arkansas, you might say he grew to become *the Sam Walton of* /national retail politics/.
171. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q328103][Peter Lieberson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/arts/music/20conl.html][2004/11/20/1628537]]) Indeed, *the Peter Lieberson of* ''Red Garuda'' joins a guild of Western craftsmen who came before him, all dedicated to artifacts that hint of the Orient but are intended to serve the tables and display cabinets -- and in this case the ears -- of Europe and America.+
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8023][Nelson Mandela]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/international/asia/23pakistan.html][2004/11/23/1629416]]) Some in his party even eulogized him as *the Nelson Mandela of* /Pakistan/, a claim that made his rivals snicker.
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363308][Walker Evans]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/books/25bbox.html][2004/11/25/1629819]]) Shomei Tomatsu is *the Walker Evans of* /Japanese photography/, says Sandra S. Phillips, a senior curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and one of the book's authors.
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244512][Harry Potter]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/magazine/28FOOD.html][2004/11/28/1630339]]) But even if the second phase of Yozi proceeded to a third, and the drink became a raging success, *the Harry Potter of* /the yogurt drink market/, Cristman would never pack a Yozi, or any of his other designs, in his own daughter's lunch bag.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214477][Julia Child]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/travel/28bluebadge.html][2004/11/28/1630380]]) On the more contemporary side ''An Omelette and a Glass of Wine: Walk Elizabeth David's Chelsea'' is a tribute to *the Julia Child of* /England/.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327071][Paul Revere]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9906EFD8173EF93BA15752C1A9629C8B63][2004/11/28/1630401]]) The campaign picked up steam after Mr. Lavine's victory, and Mr. Suozzi began calling Mr. Lavine *the Paul Revere of* /the Fix Albany movement/.
177. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/business/media/29adco.html][2004/11/29/1630801]]) Is it a conflict of interest for Suze Orman, often called *the Oprah Winfrey of* /financial planning/, to appear as a pitchwoman in a campaign peddling the new ''Lock 'n' Roll'' loan promotion sponsored by the General Motors Corporation?
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007][Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/nyregion/05troy.html][2004/12/05/1632484]]) ''I felt that he was *the Franklin Delano Roosevelt of* /1972/,'' Mr.
179. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007][Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/obituaries/06troy.html][2004/12/06/1632644]]) ''I felt that he was *the Franklin Delano Roosevelt of* /1972/,'' Mr.+ (D)
180. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28493][Ralph Fiennes]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DC1531F934A35751C1A9629C8B63][2004/12/07/1632919]]) He is *the Ralph Fiennes of* /baritones/.
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234691][Stevie Nicks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/08/dining/08FAMI.html][2004/12/08/1633053]]) For an even more personal cuisine, open GOOD TEMPERED FOOD (Miramax Books, $29.95) by Tamasin Day-Lewis, *the Stevie Nicks of* /British cookery/.
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229232][Gloria Swanson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/travel/12balazs.html][2004/12/12/1633980]]) Mr. Balazs's first property, Chateau Marmont, could be described as *the Gloria Swanson of* /hotels/.
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174908][Michael Moore]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/arts/television/17moye.html][2004/12/17/1635360]]) ''I think that if Bill Moyers is trying to go out as *the Michael Moore of* /television/, he ought to be congratulated, because he has succeeded,'' he said.
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19dell.html][2004/12/19/1635940]]) Mr. Dell may not quite be *the Henry Ford of* /our time/, but his company is certainly the Wal-Mart of the high-technology industry, for better or worse.
185. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q440111][Vin Baker]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/sports/basketball/23knicks.html][2004/12/23/1636922]]) ''It's unfortunate; I wanted to come here and be *the Vin Baker of* old,'' he said.+
186. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168587][Sol LeWitt]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E5D81130F937A15751C1A9629C8B63][2004/12/24/1636982]]) She was *the Sol LeWitt of* /weaving/.+ (D)
187. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51492][Frank Capra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/magazine/26INTRO.html][2004/12/26/1637346]]) Still others are known only to a handful of devotees, like Russ Meyer, *the Frank Capra of* /the big-breasted sexploitation film/; Katharina Dalton, who changed women's lives by explaining PMS; Mary-Ellis Bunim, who helped unleash the beast that is reality TV; and Sidney Morgenbesser, the kibitzing philosopher of upper Broadway.
188. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739866][Pete Rose]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/magazine/26JAMES.html][2004/12/26/1637357]]) James might be called *the Pete Rose of* /funk/; deprived of Sly Stone's or Prince's native genius, he scrapped his way to the top.
189. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739866][Pete Rose]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/magazine/26JAMES.html][2004/12/26/1637357]]) Not a bad legacy for *the Pete Rose of* funk.+
190. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180919][Natalie Wood]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E4DF1739F93AA15751C1A9629C8B63][2004/12/29/1638195]]) The article made Ms. Sontag an international celebrity, showered with lavish, if unintentionally ridiculous, titles (''a literary pinup,'' ''the dark lady of American letters,'' ''*the Natalie Wood of* /the U.S. avant-garde/'').
191. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318149][Tom Ford]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/garden/30BARM.html][2004/12/30/1638274]]) Think of him as *the Tom Ford of* /interior design/.

** 2005
1. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2831][Michael Jackson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/arts/music/01pare.html][2005/01/01/1638742]]) Musically, it was double 1982 déjà vu: Kraftwerk-toned synthesizer notes echoing Afrika Bambaataa's 1982 ''Planet Rock'' behind creamy, anxiety-laced lead and backup vocals that recall *the Michael Jackson of* ''Thriller.''+
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06EEDB1739F931A35752C0A9639C8B63][2005/01/02/1638933]]) He (or, often, she) is *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /politics/.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41166][Jonathan Swift]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/nyregion/thecity/02jerr.html][2005/01/02/1639000]]) It wasn't Jerry Orbach addressing me, but the character he'd created and so thoroughly inhabited: Lennie Briscoe, *the Jonathan Swift of* /the N.Y.P.D./, quintessential tough-skinned, nasty-tongued, broken-hearted New Yorker.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11975][Britney Spears]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/automobiles/02autos.html][2005/01/02/1639020]]) MERCEDES-BENZ SLK350 (base $46,220) -- The old proto-pop SLK was *the Britney Spears of* /sports cars/ -- a cute and perky roadster that few took seriously.
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217557][Joyce Carol Oates]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/books/review/02TBR.html][2005/01/02/1639165]]) In the process, Carter has become *the Joyce Carol Oates of* /American ex-presidents/.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318503][Mark Cuban]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/sports/football/03araton.html][2005/01/03/1639329]]) Imagine what it is like for Parcells, having to look every morning at Jerry Jones, *the Mark Cuban of* /football owners/ before there was a Mark Cuban.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169452][Shaquille O'Neal]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/business/yourmoney/09dealbook.html][2005/01/09/1640675]]) Over the last few weeks, several of the nation's largest buyout firms, including the Blackstone Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners, have each been not-so-discreetly talking up the possibility of trying to raise what would be *the Shaquille O'Neal of* /L.B.O./
8. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/nyregion/10coin.html][2005/01/10/1640960]]) ''If the double eagle is *the Mona Lisa of* coins,'' Ms. Deisher added, ''then the analogy is public display in the Louvre.+
9. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3269594][Lynne Stewart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/nyregion/15stewart.html][2005/01/15/1642103]]) ''Am I not *the Lynne Stewart of* old?+
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355314][Jack Welch]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/business/yourmoney/16view.html][2005/01/16/1642486]]) ''Industry has every reason to be alarmed at the social, economic and financial implications,'' said Alfred Sloan, the chief executive of General Motors and *the Jack Welch of* /his day/.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285536][Imelda Marcos]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/arts/television/17gate.html][2005/01/17/1642808]]) But comments occasionally seem deliberately naïve, like a reference by Michael Farquhar, author of ''A Treasury of Royal Scandals,'' to Marie, with her fashion excesses, as ''*the Imelda Marcos of* /her day/.''
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41314][Bobby Fischer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/sports/football/18anderson.html][2005/01/18/1643049]]) ''Bill Belichick is *the Bobby Fischer of* /football/,'' Curtis Martin, the Jets' league-leading rusher, said at his locker, referring to the onetime boy wonder of chess.
13. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4818544][Attitude]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/sports/football/jets-seek-to-capture-the-attitude-of-a-titan.html][2005/01/21/1643776]]) Jets Seek to Capture *the Attitude of* a Titan+
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE2D81138F931A15752C0A9639C8B63"][2005/01/22/1643883]]) Rather than become *the Susan Lucci of* /the N.F.L./, Harry Carson said Thursday night that he had petitioned the governing board of the Hall of Fame to take his name off the ballot.
15. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/sports/football/carson-wants-name-off-fame-ballot.html][2005/01/22/1644040]]) Rather than become *the Susan Lucci of* /the N.F.L./, Harry Carson said Thursday night that he had petitioned the governing board of the Hall of Fame to take his name off the ballot.+ (D)
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445701][Kenneth Lay]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/business/yourmoney/23refresh.html][2005/01/23/1644306]]) I was *the Kenneth Lay of* /the moment/.''
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/national/28bari.html][2005/01/28/1645547]]) She said that because the biography did not accept a popular image of Ms. Bari as ''*the Mother Teresa of* /the North Coast forests/,'' it had invited a showdown with ''bitter-enders who are the keepers of her flame.''
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E0DC143BF933A05752C0A9639C8B63][2005/01/30/1646067]]) ''Klaus Schwab is a genius and he's *the Bill Gates of* /symposiums/ because he's invented Davos Man and Davos Man rules the world; it's capitalism without frontiers.''
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/technology/taking-the-pulse-of-technology-at-davos.html][2005/01/31/1646287]])                 At Davos, *the Johnny Appleseed of* /the digital era/ shares his ambition to propagate a $100 laptop in developing countries.
20. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7314][Igor Stravinsky]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/arts/music/politics-as-usual-with-u-s-grant-in-good-voice.html][2005/01/31/1646348]]) The instrumental language bypasses a previous generation of atonality and revolution and takes as its starting point *the Stravinsky of* about 1920.+
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1387173][Jim McKay]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/sports/othersports/31games.html][2005/01/31/1646404]]) Sal Masekela, the host for ESPN's television coverage -- ''*the Jim McKay of* /X/'' is how he described his job -- said the most prevalent myth about X athletes was that there was a kind of morbidity to their flirtations with danger.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213430][Larry King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/business/worldbusiness/a-talk-show-host-wants-to-be-chinas-larry-king.html][2005/02/07/1648053]]) Jack Pan aspires to be *the Larry King of* /China/.
23. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213430][Larry King]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/business/business-digest.html][2005/02/07/1648065]]) Hopes for Chinese Television  Jack Pan aspires to be *the Larry King of* /China/.+ (D)
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11675][Eliot Spitzer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/nyregion/07brodsky.html][2005/02/07/1648130]]) Richard L. Brodsky, an assemblyman from Westchester who calls himself *the Eliot Spitzer of* /the New York State Legislature/, was on a roll last Thursday morning.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/fashion/shows/marc-jacobs-turns-past-into-nevernever-land.html][2005/02/09/1648491]]) And anyway, if you did, it would make you *the Elvis of* /fashion/.
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/opinion/11fri4.html][2005/02/11/1649016]]) Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford University professor who is a leading American intellectual property scholar known as ''*the Elvis of* /cyber law/,'' has now achieved a measure of fame among fans of ''The West Wing.''
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213550][Billy Graham]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/12/national/12beliefs.html][2005/02/12/1649219]]) This, at a time when Henry Ward Beecher (''*the Billy Graham of* /his era/,'' Professor Noll calls him) was preaching a vision of Southern leaders -- ''these guiltiest and most remorseless traitors,'' the evildoers who had ''drenched a continent in needless blood''-- cast down by God into ''endless retribution.''
28. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93187][Hilary Swank]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/movies/oscars/13klaw.html][2005/02/13/1649484]]) Watch the best-actress winner, Janet Gaynor -- *the Hilary Swank of* /her day/ -- in the available video transfers of ''Seventh Heaven,'' and you will see only a fuzzy shadow of the film's glistening beauty.
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16internet.html][2005/02/16/1650398]]) It also revives the public spats in the small community of Internet founding fathers over who should be considered *the Edison of* /this age/.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174908][Michael Moore]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/theater/reviews/raconteur-of-dotcom-world-takes-on-thomas-edison.html][2005/02/21/1651787]]) It's tempting to call Mr. Daisey *the Michael Moore of* /the New York stage/ -- they are both roundish regular guys with a history of stalking C.E.O.'s.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/arts/design/a-dockworkers-strike-no-its-art.html][2005/02/24/1652323]]) ''Shigeru is *the Mozart of* /sustainable architecture/,'' Mr. Colbert said.
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168587][Sol LeWitt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/arts/movies/the-listings.html][2005/02/25/1652534]]) She was *the Sol LeWitt of* /weaving/.+ (D)
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1317][Osama bin Laden]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/books/review/27VOLLMAN.html][2005/02/27/1652944]]) One might call him *the Osama bin Laden of* /his epoch/; but he was more invisible to our knowledge than that other bugbear.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q549981][Norah Jones]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/books/review/27TBR.html][2005/02/27/1652949]]) 10, is so poised and elegiac that she comes off as *the Norah Jones of* /her plastered generation/.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272774][John Hancock]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/nyregion/thecity/27graf.html][2005/02/27/1653158]]) Inaugurating the wall was Wyclef Jean, who, below his name, wrote ''the first, the alpha, the beginning,'' lest anyone forget that he is *the John Hancock of* /Music Choice signatories/.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/science/01eins.html][2005/03/01/1653573]]) With Whitehead as his publicist, Einstein was on the road to becoming *the Elvis of* /science/, the frizzy-headed sage of Princeton, the world's most famous Jew and humanity's atomic conscience.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202878][Mae West]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/nyregion/01kim.html][2005/03/01/1653662]]) A number of possible jurors objected to the raunchy lyrics and scant clothing of Ms. Jones, who is described as *the Mae West of* /rap music/ on her main fan Web site.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316661][Daniel Boone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/realestate/06nati.html][2005/03/06/1654842]]) ''Ranne is kind of *the Daniel Boone of* /the area/,'' he said.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192359][João Gilberto]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/arts/music/09pass.html][2005/03/09/1655600]]) Rosa Passos, an ardent disciple of João Gilberto, the Brazilian singer, guitarist and bossa nova pioneer, has been called ''*the João Gilberto of* /skirts/'' in her native Brazil.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905][Franz Kafka]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/books/an-enigmatic-author-who-can-be-addictive.html][2005/03/11/1656010]]) Mr. Rabassa is a renowned translator, of Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Amado and Mario Vargas Llosa -- and of Lispector, who became, in the mid-20th century, one of Brazil's most influential writers, described as *the Kafka of* /Latin American fiction/.
41. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102289][Buckminster Fuller]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/travel/escapes/11crab.html][2005/03/11/1656018]]) Mr. Zatkoff, who is now *the Buckminster Fuller of* /crab pots/, experimenting with squares and octagons, reluctantly sold his boat, the Koritsa, last year after becoming disoriented in the valley of a wave.
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47899][Paris Hilton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/style/tmagazine/TM1429TEQ.html][2005/03/13/1656392]]) Think of tequila as *the Paris Hilton of* /the liquor world/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14441][Liza Minnelli]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/realestate/13habi.html][2005/03/13/1656623]]) Like *the Liza Minnelli of* /the new millennium/.''
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/dining/15army.html][2005/03/16/1657357]]) Sergeant Magnin is also *the Susan Lucci of* /the culinary championship/, having been runner-up for the title of Senior Chef of the Year four times.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/travel/tmagazine/20TMARFA.html][2005/03/20/1658232]]) With the help of the Dia Foundation, he began the project of becoming both the Medici and *the Michelangelo of* /Marfa/.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/opinion/20dowd.html][2005/03/20/1658580]]) ''I prefer to think of the Y as persevering and noble, not as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the human genome/.''
47. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25089][Woody Allen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/nyregion/21jersey.html][2005/03/21/1658827]]) ''I've been known as the casual campaigner and *the Woody Allen of* /Jersey City politics/,'' Mr. Pine said.
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43203][Clint Eastwood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/washington/the-god-racket-from-demille-to-delay.html][2005/03/27/1660068]]) I imagined summoning *the Clint Eastwood of* ''Dirty Harry,'' not ''Million Dollar Baby.''+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/28/business/worldbusiness/28africa.html][2005/03/28/1660495]]) For Felicia Mabuza-Suttle, a talk-show host who has been called *the Oprah Winfrey of* /South Africa/, the channel is ''the best news ever to come out of America about Africa.''
50. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229009][Debra Winger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/books/31masl.html][2005/03/31/1661131]]) It features a bright-young-thing jacket photograph in which the author does her damnedest to channel *the Debra Winger of* ''Urban Cowboy.''+
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203960][James Earl Jones]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/arts/television/31comi.html][2005/03/31/1661134]]) Well over six feet tall, muscular and shaven-headed, with a voice deep enough to qualify him as *the James Earl Jones of* /stand-up/, he commands a stage.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7026238][Nick Spano]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/nyregion/metrocampaigns/31spano.html][2005/03/31/1661241]]) No one wants to be *the Nick Spano of* /2006/, they say.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/business/01norris.html][2005/04/01/1661389]]) Qwest, *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the telephone industry/, may mount a proxy war.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/books/06bellow.html][2005/04/06/1662797]]) On multiculturalism, he was once quoted as asking: ''Who is *the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/?
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30487][Mikhail Gorbachev]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/nyregion/lavalle-creates-gop-uncertainty.html][2005/04/10/1663656]]) I don't mean to be dramatic, but I think John LaValle has been *the Gorbachev of* /Brookhaven/, and just like Gorbachev, his fate was sealed because he was a product of the same corrupt system that he needed to destroy.''
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368744][Charles Atlas]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/business/yourmoney/10omah.html][2005/04/10/1663822]]) Mr. Schwarzenegger appeared in Army fatigues and took Mr. Buffett -- who may be *the Charles Atlas of* /investors/ but who has the musculature of a chipmunk -- through a grueling workout to punish him for criticizing inequities in California's property tax system.
57. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53002][François Truffaut]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/opinion/10brooks.html][2005/04/10/1663850]]) Who is *the François Truffaut of* /our moment/?)
58. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/sports/golf/11anderson.html][2005/04/11/1664152]]) In his firm face, one could see this was *the Tiger Woods of* three and four years ago, when he streaked to four consecutive major titles while winning 7 of 11 majors.+
59. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855][Joseph Stalin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/books/13grim.html][2005/04/13/1664450]]) Mr. Service, digging deep into Stalin's early years, finds *the Stalin of* the purges and the gulag already fully formed as a Marxist revolutionary in Georgia.+
60. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19943][Juan Carlos I]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/arts/15kids.html][2005/04/15/1664971]]) 'ANIMATION 4 KIDS,' part of the Havana Film Festival, Sunday at 1 p.m. at *the King Juan Carlos of* Spain Center at New York University, 53 Washington Square South, Greenwich Village, (212)998-3650.+
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q222134][Ted Kaczynski]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/books/review/john-brown-abolitionist-a-soldier-in-the-army-of-the-lord.html][2005/04/17/1665352]]) So it takes courage, if not a touch of Brownian madness, to argue, as David S. Reynolds does in his absorbing new biography, ''John Brown, Abolitionist,'' that Brown was not *the Unabomber of* /his time/, but a reasonable man, well connected to his era's intellectual currents and a salutary force for change.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2896645][Ruth Reichl]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/travel/17airline.html][2005/04/17/1665402]]) If this was the Zagat's of the air, I would now be *the Ruth Reichl of* /the sky/.
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/travel/theres-a-new-kind-of-action-on-the-strip.html][2005/04/17/1665414]]) EVER *the Madonna of* /cities/, Las Vegas -- once the home of the Rat Pack and then, briefly, a family friendly destination -- has once again reinvented itself for baby boomers and their echo-boomer offspring, both eager to spend whatever it takes for a taste of the good life.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/arts/design/22anti.html][2005/04/22/1666672]]) (He is sometimes called ''*the Leonardo of* /Liverpool/.'')
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2263][Tom Hanks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/arts/22fami.html][2005/04/22/1666689]]) ''He's *the Tom Hanks of* /the 1920's/,'' said Suzanne Lloyd, Lloyd's granddaughter.
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/dining/22jour.html][2005/04/22/1666692]]) Among the Asian cuisines that New Yorkers have embraced, Chinese often seems to be *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the club/, getting less respect than others.
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/arts/design/an-architect-embraces-new-york.html][2005/04/23/1666904]]) ''We think that he is *the da Vinci of* /our time/,'' said Joseph J. Seymour, the former executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is building the station.
68. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/fashion/sundaystyles/24SHAKE.html][2005/04/24/1667287]]) The restaurant was designed by David Rockwell, an architect and set designer who is *the Walt Disney of* /the New York theme dining world/.
69. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209396][Marion Jones]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/25/sports/othersports/25track.html][2005/04/25/1667645]]) She ran impressively on the curve -- looking like *the Marion Jones of* 1997 to 2002, when she was ranked No.+
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952688][G. Gordon Liddy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/sports/baseball/26tv.html][2005/04/26/1667895]]) Cablevision is *the G. Gordon Liddy of* /corporations/, willing to hold a hand to the fire to maintain its principles.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199369][Naomi Campbell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/27/opinion/27dowd.html][2005/04/27/1668067]]) The uncombed, untethered Mr. Bolton is fabulously operatic -- *the Naomi Campbell of* /the Bush administration/, ready at a moment's notice to beat up on underlings.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49214][Dan Quayle]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/29/arts/television/29tvwk.html][2005/04/29/1668469]]) A black-and-white newsreel shows him bounding onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention as the vice-presidential nominee, *the Dan Quayle of* /his time/.
73. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37030][Thomas Mann]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/books/review/01PYEL.html][2005/05/01/1668875]]) Bedford has been compared to Henry James, even to Trollope, but she's much more like *the Thomas Mann of* ''Buddenbrooks'': a closet subversive.+
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1929421][Nicholson Baker]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/books/review/01TBR.html][2005/05/01/1668882]]) But ''Freakonomics'' is so sly, finicky and micro-observant that the Indiana Jones comparison feels a little off -- Levitt is more like *the Nicholson Baker of* /economists/.
75. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7302][George Frideric Handel]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/arts/music/from-bostridge-and-uchida-an-adventurous-schubert-song-cycle.html][2005/05/01/1668966]]) 4 of 1693; in the courtly tread of the Chaconne from the Premier Concert of Schieferdecker's 1713 ''Concerts Musicaux''; in a remarkably ripe sarabande by *the Handel of* 1705.+
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/arts/02pari.html][2005/05/02/1669399]]) ''She is *the Donald Trump of* /the younger generation/,'' said Al Ries, chairman of Ries & Ries, marketing consultants in Roswell, Ga.
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28493][Ralph Fiennes]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/05/arts/music/05maaz.html][2005/05/05/1670008]]) An elegant and hardy singer, Mr. Keenlyside again proved himself a risk-taking actor -- *the Ralph Fiennes of* /baritones/.
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234691][Stevie Nicks]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/arts/movies/the-listings-may-612.html][2005/05/06/1670224]]) NIGHT OF A THOUSAND STEVIES (Tonight) For devotees of *the Stevie Nicks of* /''Rhiannon'' and ''Belladonna''/ this 15th annual lip-synch-heavy tribute to Fleetwood Mac's songstress is a chance for fans to don a diaphanous shawl and join in a night of white winged doves and crystal worship.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/realestate/08deal.html][2005/05/08/1670826]]) Asked if he might be considered *the Donald Trump of* /China/, Mr. Tang smiled.
80. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/international/africa/10gorilla.html][2005/05/10/1671338]]) Cynics suggest that South Africa's extended pondering of the gorilla question was intended to permit the zoo to build its gorilla house and claim permanent ownership of what is, in the zoo world, *the Mona Lisa of* exhibits.+
81. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942923][Roy Cohn]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/opinion/15rich.html][2005/05/15/1672708]]) Not unlike *the Roy Cohn of* ''Angels in America'' -- who describes himself as ''a heterosexual man'' who has sex ''with guys'' -- Mr. West has said he had ''relations with adult men'' but doesn't ''characterize'' himself as gay.+
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162629][Simon Cowell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/business/media/16carr.html][2005/05/16/1672918]]) Ms. Brown, who had long been *the Simon Cowell of* /American media/, pointing a crooked Brit finger at the foibles of others, seems less interested in what she used to call ''quality heat'' than pushing her choices for quality political leaders (usually liberal).
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380429][Tony Robbins]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/sports/basketball/17araton.html][2005/05/17/1673164]]) Won't he be remembered as *the Tony Robbins of* /professional basketball coaches/, the self-help guru who taught Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal and even Michael Jordan to look within themselves for the secrets of the N.B.A.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295834][Jean-Pierre Léaud]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/arts/movies/the-listings-may-20may-26-mathieu-amalric.html][2005/05/20/1673804]]) Mr. Amalric, who won a 2005 César award for Best Actor for the role, has been called ''*the Jean-Pierre Léaud of* /the 90's/,'' and just as that actor became François Truffaut's nervous muse in a series of films spanning decades, Mr. Amalric seems destined to continue into the 21st century as Mr. Desplechin's filmic alter ego.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/books/review/22COVERCL.html][2005/05/22/1674615]]) Turner's track record was dazzling -- he ''won more than 350 races, driving on any surface he could find,'' Edelstein writes, eventually earning the title of ''*the Babe Ruth of* /Stock-Car Racing/'' -- but his off-track record, especially in light of Nascar's efforts to remake their drivers as gassed-up Mouseketeers, was downright dizzying.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q222071][Courtney Love]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/books/review/22KENNEDY.html][2005/05/22/1674628]]) Undaunted, she goes on to become *the Courtney Love of* /her time/: hanging out with Marcel Duchamp, composing poems that are like ''small explosions'' for The Little Review, parading through the streets in outrageous costumes (a car's blinking tail light for a bustle, a dress covered with bits of newspaper) -- and trying not to succumb to the madness that destroyed her mother.
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353511][Derek Jeter]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/sports/soccer/26vecsey.html][2005/05/26/1675483]]) The class of the organization comes from Milan's captain, Paolo Maldini, *the Derek Jeter of* /soccer/ -- great player, great leader, handsome, suave.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/theater/theaterspecial/03tony.html][2005/06/03/1677264]]) '''), who is *the Susan Lucci of* /the Tonys/, having been nominated 14 times without winning.
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/automobiles/03clubs.html][2005/06/03/1677279]]) The new car that is most likely to usurp the Pinto as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /collectible autos/ could be the Pontiac Aztek.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472547][David Souter]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/business/03cox.html][2005/06/03/1677350]]) In Republican and business circles, William H. Donaldson has been viewed as *the David Souter of* /the Securities and Exchange Commission/, a disappointingly independent choice who sided too frequently with the Democrats.
91. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/travel/top-madrid-chefs-draw-inspiration-from-a-catalan-star.html][2005/06/05/1677662]]) FERRAN ADRIÀ reigns as *the Elvis of* /the culinary world/, and his restaurant El Bulli -- found in the tiny town of Roses, two hours north of Barcelona by car -- is certainly its Graceland.
92. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4961955][Bret Schundler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/nyregion/05njcover.html][2005/06/05/1677819]]) After months spent carefully repressing *the Bret Schundler of* 2001 -- the candidate widely perceived as a wild-eyed ideologue who struck fear into the hearts of mainstream Republicans -- the civility and single-minded attention to the details of property tax policy have vanished.+
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3335][George Orwell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/books/07grimes.html][2005/06/07/1678321]]) Her mournful, meditative, appealingly idiosyncratic book is a hybrid, an exercise in literary detection but also a political travelogue that uses Burma to explain Orwell, and Orwell -- especially *the Orwell of* ''Animal Farm'' and ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' -- to explain the miseries of present-day Myanmar (as it is now known).+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157054][Giorgio Armani]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/international/middleeast/07qum.html][2005/06/07/1678349]]) Racks of colored robes, with neat stitches and fitting marks, fill the workshop of this scholarly city's most famous tailor, *the Giorgio Armani of* /clerical clothes/, Abolfazl Arabpour.
95. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79031][Mike Tyson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/sports/othersports/08tyson.html][2005/06/08/1678697]]) Those around Tyson hope that when he steps into the ring, he will look more like *the Tyson of* old, rather than an old Tyson.+
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/09/politics/09fda.html][2005/06/09/1678803]]) ''It's *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the agency/.
97. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5507789][Fulbert of Falaise]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E6DF133EF93AA35755C0A9639C8B63][2005/06/09/1678968]]) We are deeply indebted to the personal guidance he provided while serving as a Board member and as *the Chamberlain of* the Friars.+
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/politics/10pryor.html][2005/06/10/1679010]]) ''He's known as *the Johnny Appleseed of* /the Federalist Society/,'' said a friend, Algert Agricola, a lawyer in Montgomery.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/opinion/10bellow.html][2005/06/10/1679013]]) His large head hovers in the air at a sardonic tilt, and I think wryly, ''He's *the Muhammad Ali of* /conversation/: floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.''
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5599][Peter Paul Rubens]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/10/arts/design/warhol-and-rubens-picture-them-as-peas-in-a-pod.html][2005/06/10/1679091]]) Let's be devils and call Andy Warhol *the Rubens of* /American art/.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169452][Shaquille O'Neal]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/books/review/12ROBBINS.html][2005/06/12/1679403]]) He uncharacteristically sank 28 of 32 free throws (a clue the night was like none other for a notoriously poor free-throw shooter, *the Shaquille O'Neal of* /his day/), and made 36 of 63 field-goal attempts on his typical fadeaway and finger roll.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41508][Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/books/review/miss-manners-guide-to-excruciatingly-correct-behavior-aint.html][2005/06/12/1679406]]) To a man who despairs that his fiancée wants ''one of those several-tiered monstrosities'' for a wedding cake, she shoots back, ''Who are you, *the Mies van der Rohe of* /the pastry shop/?''
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12kristof.html][2005/06/12/1679657]]) Reg is now dead, while Catherine is *the Mother Teresa of* /our time/ and is long overdue for a Nobel Peace Prize.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311135][Karl Rove]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/nyregion/metrocampaigns/13hoboken.html][2005/06/13/1680036]]) He is even referred to by some as *the Karl Rove of* /Hoboken/.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/world/europe/european-charter-architect-faults-chirac-for-its-rejection.html][2005/06/15/1680370]]) As the architect of the European Union constitution, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing seemed at the top of his game, praised as ''*the Mozart of* /politics/'' and poised to go down in history as the founding father of a new Europe.
106. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3925][Grace Kelly]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/16/arts/television/16watc.html][2005/06/16/1680534]]) Charlotte Jorgensen, a former dance champion who helped the actor John O'Hurley (J. Peterman on ''Seinfeld'') perform a cha-cha, said, ''I'm known as *the Grace Kelly of* /the dancing world/.''
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5182352][Crash Davis]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/sports/tennis/17tennis.html][2005/06/17/1680925]]) He is already being called *the Crash Davis of* /tennis/, after the baseball catcher in the film ''Bull Durham,'' played by Kevin Costner, who sets a record for minor league home runs.
108. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/dining/22chod.html][2005/06/22/1682062]]) EVEN with his 24 restaurants in nine cities from London to Los Angeles, even with his four homes, his private jet and his television appearances -- even though he can rightfully claim the title of being *the Donald Trump of* /the restaurant world/ -- Jeffrey Chodorow does not seem a very happy man.
109. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103767][Charlie Parker]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/arts/music/24jvc.html][2005/06/24/1682532]]) In the 1970's and 80's, Jaco Pastorius was *the Charlie Parker of* /the electric bass/, spooking his colleagues with his brilliance; he was also a daredevil composer and record maker and one of the most imposing, volatile stage performers in jazz.
110. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434513][Alice Waters]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/movies/24rome.html][2005/06/24/1682620]]) A pioneer in the slow-zombie movement (think of him as *the Alice Waters of* /contemporary horror/), Mr. Romero has not joined the recent fad for zippy corpses, as seen in both ''28 Days Later'' and the remake of ''Dawn of the Dead.''
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44301][Jim Morrison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/fashion/sundaystyles/26STUY.html][2005/06/26/1683013]]) As Mr. Alson, the co-author of Ungar's biography, said, ''He was *the Jim Morrison of* /poker/.''
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223839][Larry Flynt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/business/yourmoney/26poker.html][2005/06/26/1683088]]) Time magazine called him *the Larry Flynt of* /the Internet/.
113. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213550][Billy Graham]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/opinion/26woodward.web.html][2005/06/26/1683099]]) The Billy Graham on display at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park this weekend is not *the Billy Graham of* old, who towered over the lectern, carving the air with his right hand while elevating an open Bible in the other.+
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1168491][Charlie Brown]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7D71F3EF935A15755C0A9639C8B63][2005/06/26/1683325]]) Being *the Charlie Brown of* /umpires/, I felt that I owed everybody involved written apologies as well as a signed contract to never call another game.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344045][Alfred P. Sloan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/business/01insider.html][2005/07/01/1684204]]) The study cites an Institutional Investors' article with one colleague referring to him as *the Alfred P. Sloan of* /Morgan Stanley/.
116. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380433][Al Sharpton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/nyregion/02howard.html][2005/07/02/1684447]]) He added, ''I don't think Al Sharpton today is *the Al Sharpton of* 1986 who wanted to escalate it.''+
117. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16196369][Howard Beach]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/nyregion/02howard.html][2005/07/02/1684447]]) As a white enclave in an increasingly multiethnic borough, *the Howard Beach of* 1986 was an island in a sea of demographic change.+
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208871][Ike Turner]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/arts/music/like-a-complete-unknown-in-fact-like-a-rolling-stone.html][2005/07/03/1684667]]) Yes, Mr. Dylan in his book, ''Chronicles Volume One,'' lamented Mr. Kooper's status in ''eternal musical limbo'' and suggested he was ''*the Ike Turner of* /the white world/'' and should have teamed up with Janis Joplin.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47087][Arthur C. Clarke]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/opinion/03grinspoon.html][2005/07/03/1684831]]) Wells, *the Arthur C. Clarke of* /the paleoindustrial age/, once wrote: ''There is no way back into the past.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/nyregion/05nyc.html][2005/07/05/1685183]]) He virtually casts Gates as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /war heroes/, convinced as he is that George Washington's sterling reputation came, to some degree, at Gates's expense.
121. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1077608][Chris Ofili]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/08/arts/design/08cott.html][2005/07/08/1685693]]) If I were connecting dots, I would link Ms. Genzken, circa 1989, with Mr. Guyton; Jason Rhoades, circa 1993, with Mr. Colen; and *the Chris Ofili of* 15 years ago with the many New York painters now working in a realist, figurative style.+
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q345231][Evel Knievel]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/08/sports/othersports/08jump.html][2005/07/08/1685772]]) ''He's *the Evel Knievel of* /skateboarding/.''
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165421][Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/science/space/as-shuttle-returns-emotions-tug-columbia-families-anew.html][2005/07/10/1686145]]) As they sat together at a cafe here, Mrs. McCool said, ''Rona is like *the Jackie O. of* /Israel/,'' although her friend said, ''Well, no,'' and Mrs. McCool said, ''But they recognize her everywhere.''
124. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/14/sports/baseball/14ortiz.html][2005/07/14/1687227]]) In physique, personality and production, Ortiz could be *the Babe Ruth of* /the Dominican Republic/.
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q353754][Paul de Man]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/magazine/17GALACTICA.html][2005/07/17/1687750]]) One original-series fan called him ''*the Paul de Man of* /current science fiction/,'' accusing him of casually deconstructing the story that had been so close to their hearts for so long, only in order to ''make his mark.''
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10520][David Beckham]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/arts/dance/26liai.html][2005/07/26/1690071]]) But it wasn't until Mr. Cooper, the man the English press has called the Brad Pitt and *the David Beckham of* /dance/, began to strip to his 18th-century knickers as the irresistibly frozen-hearted, woman-devouring Vicomte de Valmont that the first real frisson shot through the audience.
127. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123682][Randy Johnson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/27/sports/baseball/27yanks.html][2005/07/27/1690417]]) They got *the Randy Johnson of* old, not an old Randy Johnson.+
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268056][Mr. Chips]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/arts/28simon.html][2005/07/28/1690536]]) Seeing his students' comedy credits made him feel like ''*the Mr. Chips of* /comedy writing/,'' he said.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60809][Ansel Adams]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E5D8103FF932A05754C0A9639C8B63][2005/07/31/1691335]]) Watkins is largely forgotten today, but he was *the Ansel Adams of* /19th-century photography/.
130. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60809][Ansel Adams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/nyregion/art-review-they-didnt-forget-the-camera-680559.html][2005/07/31/1691541]]) Watkins is largely forgotten today, but he was *the Ansel Adams of* /19th-century photography/.+ (D)
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/books/review/07HENDRAL.html][2005/08/07/1692805]]) Enter, at the average wine consumer's side, Robert M. Parker Jr., who sees himself as *the Ralph Nader of* /wine/.
132. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150767][Benjamin Britten]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/arts/music/07gure.html][2005/08/07/1692935]]) A soliloquy for Hook, delivered by Karloff as purple prose over Wilder's generic underscoring, emerges here as a subtle operatic arioso, oddly reminiscent of *the Benjamin Britten of* ''Billy Budd.''+
133. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6939299][Murray Hill]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/nyregion/thecity/dull-is-beautiful-learning-to-love-the-tedium-of-murray.html][2005/08/07/1693059]]) It's *the Murray Hill of* trees and town houses and big old apartment buildings, churches and clubs and consulates and offices.+
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q222008][Kathleen Turner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/dining/reviews/10rest.html][2005/08/10/1693653]]) It's *the Kathleen Turner of* /cooking implements/: a fiery diva at center stage.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/international/americas/13emery.html][2005/08/13/1694322]]) ''I've wanted to be *the Johnny Appleseed of* /marijuana/, so if we produced millions and millions of marijuana plants all over the world, it would be impossible for governments to eradicate or control all of it.''
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/sports/othersports/13poke.html][2005/08/13/1694358]]) The game's image has also improved because of players like Barry Greenstein, who with good reason is called *the Robin Hood of* /Poker/: he donates millions of dollars in tournament prize money to children's charities.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E7DE133EF934A2575BC0A9639C8B63][2005/08/17/1695421]]) I hope that Cindy Sheehan will become *the Rosa Parks of* /the Iraq antiwar movement/.
138. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44200][Billy the Kid]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/us/ashestofireworks-sendoff-for-an-outlaw-writer.html][2005/08/22/1696593]]) He called him ''*the Billy the Kid of* /American literature/.''
139. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3569688][Curtis Sliwa]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/nyregion/testifying-against-gotti-sliwa-describes-how-he-was-shot-in-a-taxi.html][2005/08/23/1696820]]) Instead, the confrontation was between *the Curtis Sliwa of* today -- a pro-police, law-and-order conservative -- and the younger man with badly damaged credibility he claimed to have left behind.+
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q864751][The Hatter]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E6DD1E3EF936A1575BC0A9639C8B63][2005/08/25/1697096]]) Frederick Carder has been called *the Mad Hatter of* /glass/.
141. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553321][Vince Lombardi]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE5D81E3EF935A1575BC0A9639C8B63][2005/08/26/1697308]]) He comes off as *the Vince Lombardi of* /space travel/, leading astronauts beyond their corporal capacity.
142. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4583][Anne Frank]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/books/review/28BECKERL.html][2005/08/28/1697630]]) Sometimes called *the Anne Frank of* /Cambodia/, Bophana has become a folk heroine, known for the letters and confessions she wrote before her torture and murder by the Khmer Rouge.
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54584][Andy Roddick]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E1D81F3EF93AA1575BC0A9639C8B63][2005/08/29/1698188]]) He is *the Andy Roddick of* /France/, the great national hope.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307][Galileo Galilei]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/world/asia/japans-post-offices-fullservice-political-battlefields.html][2005/08/30/1698348]]) Whether Mr. Koizumi will be remembered as *the Galileo of* /Japanese politics/ remains to be seen.
145. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q970848][Kenny Lofton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/sports/baseball/01mets.html][2005/09/01/1698872]]) ''It reminded me of *the Kenny Lofton of* yesteryear,'' Randolph said.+
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189081][Howard Hughes]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04SEARLEL.html][2005/09/04/1699273]]) Kimmelman's trek to visit Michael Heizer's huge, incomplete (and probably unfinishable) ''City'' in the Nevada desert made the author call the sculptor ''*the Howard Hughes of* /American art/ to Smithson's Buddy Holly or Judd's Nietzsche,'' and it seems that Heizer is as much of an enigma as his vast earthwork.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q231417][Barbara Walters]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/realestate/04deal.html][2005/09/04/1699450]]) PEOPLE magazine once called Yue-Sai Kan *the Barbara Walters of* /China/.
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174346][Katie Holmes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/movies/true-to-the-bollywood-look-while-defying-traditions.html][2005/09/10/1700749]]) Preity Zinta must be *the Katie Holmes of* /the Indian film industry/.
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129087][Ethel Merman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/theater/newsandfeatures/11bran.html][2005/09/11/1701109]]) Ms. LuPone -- who, since we're playing that game, might be described as *the Ethel Merman of* /the 1980's/ -- dazzled, and nearly deafened, New York with her lungs of brass in ''Evita'' and ''Anything Goes,'' but has been absent from Broadway musicals for more than a decade.
150. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16390][Humphrey Bogart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/theater/newsandfeatures/11bran.html][2005/09/11/1701109]]) If Ms. Clayburgh was the Julia Roberts of the late 1970's, Gabriel Byrne might be described as *the Humphrey Bogart of* /the early 1990's/.
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40523][Julia Roberts]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/theater/newsandfeatures/11bran.html][2005/09/11/1701109]]) If Ms. Clayburgh was *the Julia Roberts of* /the late 1970's/, Gabriel Byrne might be described as the Humphrey Bogart of the early 1990's.
152. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11153][John Roberts]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/politics/politicsspecial1/13roberts.html][2005/09/13/1701736]]) But people can change, Senator Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, observed, adding, ''So I will be looking for a somewhat different John Roberts than *the John Roberts of* 1985.''+
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/garden/15birn.html][2005/09/15/1702130]]) Mr. Birnbaum is *the Johnny Appleseed of* /landscape preservation/, rallying grass-roots organizers in places like Seattle and Tampa and residents of Buckland, Va., where a proposed eight-lane highway could threaten an 18th-century village that includes a former plantation and a Civil War battlefield.
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/magazine/style/the-get-samurai-sipper.html][2005/09/18/1702809]]) ''Château d'Yquem is *the Michael Jordan of* /Sauternes/,'' he says.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460876][Lenny Bruce]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/arts/design/18pogr.html][2005/09/18/1703015]]) In bestowing its 1993 National Honor Award on the center, the American Institute of Architects' jury called it ''*the Lenny Bruce of* /architecture/ -- bold and brilliant to some and to others irritating and resistant.''
156. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170509][Henry James]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/arts/dance/18bell.html][2005/09/18/1703022]]) ''I thought of her as *the Henry James of* /dance critics/,'' he said.
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/nyregion/18journal.html][2005/09/18/1703222]]) George Castro, the owner of the Ritz, who is referred to by some people as *the Donald Trump of* /Elizabeth/, is clearly more honored than surprised.
158. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294013][Mark Brunell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/sports/football/21redskins.html][2005/09/21/1703879]]) ''It looked like *the Mark Brunell of* old,'' Moss told reporters after the game.+
159. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214800][Calvin Klein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/fashion/thursdaystyles/22COSTA.html][2005/09/22/1704017]]) ''I'm not doing *the Calvin Klein of* the past.+
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q317128][Jelly Roll Morton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/garden/22earl.html][2005/09/22/1704035]]) On Thursday Mr. Barthé, who has been called *the Jelly Roll Morton of* /plaster/, will put on a borrowed suit and a broad-brim hat sent by a family member familiar with his J.R. Ewing style to accept a now-bittersweet award from the National Endowment for the Arts: a National Heritage Fellowship, which carries a no-strings grant of $20,000.
161. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382303][Mariano Rivera]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/sports/baseball/25curry.html][2005/09/25/1705010]]) Since it would be second guessing to suggest that Manager Joe Torre should have known that Small was going to rumble out of the bullpen like *the Mariano Rivera of* long relief and toss six and two-thirds scoreless innings, the focus fell upon the miscues by Matsui and Cano.+
162. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44640][Sting]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/sports/baseball/25curry.html][2005/09/25/1705010]]) Ifs and Coulds and Might-Have-Beens: The Yankees Feel *the Sting of* Regret+
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35332][Brad Pitt]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E3DA1530F936A1575AC0A9639C8B63][2005/09/25/1705171]]) Figueras, standing center, is also a Ford model who has been called *the Brad Pitt of* /polo players/.
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8743][Thomas Edison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/opinion/27tierney.html][2005/09/27/1705321]]) Bill Joy, the former Sun Microsystems scientist who's been called *the Edison of* /the Internet/, is one of the prophets of doom calling for restraints on researchers.
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234579][Flannery O'Connor]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E6DA1330F933A0575AC0A9639C8B63][2005/09/30/1706071]]) Arbus was a wonderful formalist and just as wonderful a storyteller -- *the Flannery O'Connor of* /photography/.
166. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2748186][Keith Foulke]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/sports/baseball/30araton.html][2005/09/30/1706123]]) Whereas Torre has had Tom Gordon for the eighth inning and Mariano Rivera for the ninth, Francona has never had *the Keith Foulke of* last season and has had to survive with Mike Timlin as his closer, with auditions for the September setup roles.+
167. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7374185][Royal Flush]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/sports/othersports/01poke.html][2005/10/01/1706201]]) Bluffing and *the Royal Flush of* Cold Warfare+
168. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7374185][Royal Flush]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/sports/othersports/01poke.html][2005/10/01/1706201]]) Game Theory: POKER; Bluffing and *the Royal Flush of* Cold Warfare+
169. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q954975][Curt Schilling]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/03/sports/baseball/lessdominant-schilling-is-still-the-red-sox-ace.html][2005/10/03/1707011]]) Curt Schilling is not *the Curt Schilling of* 2004, which is something he has repeatedly acknowledged.+
170. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4535129][Sol Hurok]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/arts/music/06leventhal.html][2005/10/06/1707530]]) Mr. Leventhal, who began his career in the 1930's as a song plugger for Irving Berlin, was by the early 1950's *the Sol Hurok of* /America's flourishing folk-music revival/.
171. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93341][Miles Davis]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09burrough.html][2005/10/09/1708135]]) If Doris Kearns Goodwin or David McCullough can lay claim to being *the Miles Davis of* /popular history/, Winchester is becoming the Kenny G. Where another author might rely on groundbreaking scholarship or at least narrative drive, Winchester, a geologist turned ''globe-trotting correspondent,'' favors a meandering approach laced with bons mots and fusty subject headings -- e.g., ''The Well-Illumined Earth'' and, on the North American tectonic plate, ''The Plate Entire.''
172. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1515039][William Morris]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/style/tmagazine/t_d_2020_2022_talk_caniato_.html][2005/10/09/1708203]]) ''Michele wants to be *the William Morris of* the design world,'' says the developer Sam Nazarian, who courted Caniato for months to lure Starck for a project in Los Angeles.+
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9559][John Major]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/opinion/09brooks.html][2005/10/09/1708466]]) After a while you begin to wonder: Did I really get engaged in politics so I could spend months arguing about the confirmation of Harriet Miers, *the John Major of* /American jurisprudence/?
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q378098][William F. Buckley Jr.]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09ctbuckley.html][2005/10/09/1708539]]) ''And I guess Karl Rove is *the Bill Buckley of* /today/, in the sense of nurturing the conservative movement.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09ctbuckley.html][2005/10/09/1708539]]) ''Bill is *the Michael Jordan of* /language/.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473208][Roger Clemens]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/sports/football/10anderson.html][2005/10/10/1708694]]) For sheer arm strength at such an advanced age, Testaverde is *the Roger Clemens of* /pro football/.
177. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36322][Jane Austen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/23orourke.html][2005/10/23/1711573]]) Mary Gaitskill made her reputation as a chilly chronicler of emotional brutality and sexual sadism, earning her the apt sobriquet ''*the Jane Austen of* /sickos/'' from one Amazon reviewer.
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/books/review/shakespeare-a-year-in-the-life-of-william-shakespeare-straight.html][2005/10/23/1711576]]) Comparisons with Dickens, who was, in a way, *the Shakespeare of* /the novel/, are particularly suggestive; but Ackroyd, fruitfully, quotes many foreign opinions, old and new, as well.
179. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/sports/baseball/23curry.html][2005/10/23/1712004]]) But even as Clemens, *the John Wayne of* /pitchers/, gave a tough-guy answer about ignoring the aches that he had accumulated in 22 seasons, he probably never imagined he would be in the clubhouse getting his hamstring treated after collecting six outs.
180. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/garden/27rice.html][2005/10/27/1712715]]) ''I tell them it's sincerely written and it's *the Jesus of* the Gospels,'' she said.+
181. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189599][Keith Richards]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/fashion/sundaystyles/30merlin.html][2005/10/30/1713579]]) ''He's becoming like *the Keith Richards of* /content/.
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q367566][Yogi Berra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/sports/football/30score.html][2005/10/30/1713665]]) For a sport that disdains most formulaic numbers -- just win, baby -- quarterback rating has become *the Yogi Berra of* /stats/, as quoted as it is confounding.
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297945][Lee Strasberg]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/01/classified/paid-notice-deaths-friedberg-martin-har-vey.html][2005/11/01/1714190]]) FRIEDBERG -- Martin Har vey, *the Lee Strasberg of* /improvisational comedy/, died October 30, 2005.
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216936][Sean Combs]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/technology/techspecial1/open-the-vault-my-phone-is-ringing.html][2005/11/02/1714222]]) The Presidential, created by the singer Xavier Aeon, *the P. Diddy of* /Britain/, has a one-gigabyte drive and plays videos as well as audio.
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/nyregion/02towns.html][2005/11/02/1714393]]) O.K., so maybe New Jersey didn't hit the marketing jackpot when it paid a New York image and branding consultant $260,000 for research and a new slogan and ended up with *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /state boasts/: ''New Jersey: We'll Win You Over.''
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2865273][Arthur Murray]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/04/sports/inside-the-nfl-celebrations-walk-fine-line-between-taunting-and.html][2005/11/04/1714895]]) Chad Johnson, the Bengals' receiver who is *the Arthur Murray of* /the N.F.L./, performed a rendition of ''Riverdance'' after scoring a touchdown against the Bears on Sept. 25.
187. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34012][Marlon Brando]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/books/08masl.html][2005/11/08/1715899]]) He named his daughter Tuesday, after the actress Tuesday Weld, whom Sam Shepard once called ''*the Marlon Brando of* /women/.''
188. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2064037][Al D'Amato]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/10/nyregion/10democrats.html][2005/11/10/1716484]]) ''We need someone like *the Al D'Amato of* 1980,'' he said.+
189. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/books/review/the-lost-painting-the-caravaggio-trail.html][2005/11/13/1716977]]) The artist in question, Michelangelo Merisi, known to most of us as Caravaggio (after his hometown outside Milan), was then among the most famous, innovative and copied painters in Rome -- *the Picasso of* /his day/, more or less.
190. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/movies/13wwln.html][2005/11/13/1717106]]) Anointed ''*the Elvis of* /cultural theory/'' by The Chronicle of Higher Education, and described on his book jackets as ''the giant of Ljubljana,'' the 58-year-old Mr. Zizek is a jocular, motormouthed theorist whose critical musings on postmodernism and popular culture -- rich in deeply spun allusions to the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch -- are inspired by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
191. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106275][Juliette Binoche]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/arts/music/19dess.html][2005/11/19/1718615]]) It helps that she is *the Juliette Binoche of* /sopranos/ and moves like a dancer.
192. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1317][Osama bin Laden]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/magazine/20bolivia.html][2005/11/20/1718862]]) ''People talk about him as if he were *the Osama bin Laden of* /Latin America/,'' Shifter told me, adding that, after a recent lecture Shifter gave at a military institution, two American officers came up to him and said that Morales ''was a terrorist, a murderer, the worst thing ever.''
193. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/opinion/20rich.html][2005/11/20/1719129]]) ''If bin Laden is *the Robin Hood of* /jihad/,'' the authors write, then Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ''has been its Horatio Alger, and Iraq his field of dreams.''
194. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2596171][John Henry]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/technology/28super.html][2005/11/28/1720853]]) Mr. Goto, who is 37, might even be called *the John Henry of* /the information age/.
195. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213550][Billy Graham]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/29/movies/MoviesFeatures/29depp.html][2005/11/29/1721019]]) On his deathbed, Wilmot was attended by a parson named Gilbert Burnet, who was a sort of celebrity chaplain -- *the Billy Graham of* /the 17th century/.
196. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230299][Nellie Bly]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/dining/30clem.html][2005/11/30/1721221]]) CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD was *the Nellie Bly of* /culinary journalism/, a go-anywhere, taste-anything, ask-everything kind of reporter who traveled more than 50,000 miles a year in search of stories in a day when very few food editors strayed far from their desks.
197. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310394][Alan Alda]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/books/30berenstain.html][2005/11/30/1721235]]) Charles Krauthammer, in a 1989 column in The Washington Post, referred to ''the postfeminist Papa Bear'' as ''*the Alan Alda of* /Grizzlies/, a wimp so passive and fumbling he makes Dagwood Bumstead look like Batman.''
198. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204218][Stuart Sutcliffe]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04itzk.html][2005/12/04/1722083]]) Paul Simonon was the cool-looking, unmusical bass player -- Gilbert calls him *the Stuart Sutcliffe of* /punk rock/.
199. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213626][Jesse James]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/books/arts/crowd-pleasers-light-reading-gone-wild.html][2005/12/09/1723424]]) How else to explain ''Comma Sense,'' which has a blurb from Ms. Truss and claims that the apostrophe is *the Jesse James of* /punctuation marks/?
200. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2855440][Boston Strangler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/movies/11manl.html][2005/12/11/1723956]]) Videocassette recorders did not, as feared, become *the Boston Strangler of* /the movie studios/.
201. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211987][Jon Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/nyregion/westchester-at-its-best-ensemble-made-just-for-gilbert-sullivan.html][2005/12/11/1723997]]) The potshots at pomposity, jokes and political references made Gilbert and Sullivan together ''*the Jon Stewart of* /their time/,'' she said.
202. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/arts/13pryo.html][2005/12/13/1724564]]) ''Richard Pryor was *the Rosa Parks of* /comedy/,'' said Chris Rock, in a statement.
203. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5480][Bart Simpson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/books/review/18hynes.html][2005/12/18/1725623]]) Loki is *the Bart Simpson of* /Norse mythology/, forever pulling pranks, forever getting caught and forever talking his way out of the consequences.
204. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q676226][Lawrence Welk]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/magazine/18christmas.html][2005/12/18/1725624]]) For years, critics have savaged this music, dismissing Mannheim Steamroller as ''*the Lawrence Welk of* /New Age/.''
205. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327071][Paul Revere]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/national/18anderson.html][2005/12/18/1725933]]) He relished being called ''*the Paul Revere of* /journalism/'' for his knack for uncovering major stories first almost as much as he enjoyed being at the top of President Richard M. Nixon's enemies list.
206. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/magazine/25korematsu.html][2005/12/25/1727280]]) He might have been celebrated in his community, *the Rosa Parks of* /Japanese-American life/; in fact, he was shunned.
207. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366563][Dick Clark]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/movies/a-career-of-killing-people-until-an-attack-of-cold-feet.html][2005/12/30/1728356]]) Danny Wright, Julian's wide-eyed sidekick, is agreeably played by Greg Kinnear, wagging his bushy tail and radiating the ageless boyishness that makes him *the Dick Clark of* /movie stars/.

** 2006
1. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216810][King Kong]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/opinion/03walden.html][2006/01/03/1729288]]) And over the last 12 months -- with the Indian Ocean tsunami, the hurricanes on the Gulf Coast and the Pakistan earthquake -- fund-raising records have been broken by *the King Kong of* /relief agencies/, the American Red Cross, and by many smaller organizations as well.
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604][Frank Lloyd Wright]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/fashion/thursdaystyles/05CRITIC.html][2006/01/05/1729584]]) PEAK EXPERIENCE -- Being fitted for a custom fedora by Orlando Palacios, *the Frank Lloyd Wright of* /men's hats/.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100937][Fred Astaire]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/movies/the-listings-jan-6jan-12.html][2006/01/06/1729816]]) CASSIE TERMAN AND SHINICHI MOMO KOGA (Tonight and tomorrow night) Known as *the Fred Astaire of* /Butoh/, Mr. Koga will perform ''The Smallest Country,'' a program of improvised duets, with Ms. Terman, who trained in physical theater with Ruth Zaporah.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202878][Mae West]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/fashion/sundaystyles/08nite.html][2006/01/08/1730398]]) ''I like to consider myself *the Mae West of* /rock 'n' roll/,'' Ms. Claret, the lead singer of the band Morningwood, said one recent evening.
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36107][Muhammad Ali]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFDF1F30F93BA35752C0A9609C8B63][2006/01/08/1730507]]) He is *the Muhammad Ali of* /college football/ -- transcending the sport and taking a new dimension to fans everywhere.
6. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229749][Heather Locklear]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/arts/television/09emil.html][2006/01/09/1730722]]) Heather Graham is *the Heather Locklear of* /the Dragonball Z generation/ -- the kind of seraphic beauty who is funny only when playing a Becky Sharpe or fantasy figure.
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial5/09diabetes.html][2006/01/09/1730780]]) Diabetes is ''*the Rodney Dangerfield of* /diseases/,'' said Dr. James L. Rosenzweig, the director of disease management at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216896][L. Ron Hubbard]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/books/review/15kirn.html][2006/01/15/1732379]]) Once the reader despairs of ever finding out whether Smith was God's own spokesman or *the L. Ron Hubbard of* /his day/, it's possible to enjoy a tale that's as colorful, suspenseful and unlikely as any in American history.
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312167][Meyer Lansky]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/music/16stor.html][2006/01/16/1732497]]) (He has called himself *the Meyer Lansky of* /hip-hop/.)
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5679][Lord Byron]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/books/a-mick-jagger-in-an-elizabethan-ruff.html][2006/01/18/1732836]]) Christopher Marlowe was *the Byron of* /the Elizabethan age/.
11. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19place.html][2006/01/19/1733152]]) Part of his allure was a success story that made him appear to be *the Bill Gates of* /Japan/.
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q695751][Thomas Dooley]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E5D7153FF93AA25752C0A9609C8B63][2006/01/19/1733189]]) Mike Piazza has a chance to be *the Thomas Dooley of* /baseball/.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5284][Bill Gates]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/business/worldbusiness/19livedoor.html][2006/01/19/1733197]]) In the last two years, Mr. Horie has made headline news with a success story that has turned him into *the Bill Gates of* /Japan/.
14. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/business/media/tomorrowland-apple-chief-set-for-disney-role.html][2006/01/20/1733390]]) Steven P. Jobs could be considered *the Walt Disney of* /his era/, breathing new life into animated movies with hits like ''The Incredibles'' and ''Toy Story,'' and reinventing Apple Computer as a media darling with its popular iPod.
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315808][Neil Simon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/theater/reviews/romps-by-and-about-a-firebrand-of-florence.html][2006/01/21/1733467]]) If he was not exactly *the Neil Simon of* /16th-century Florence/, he packed them in and left them laughing.
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q913][Socrates]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/arts/television/tom-snyder-the-latenight-boswell-of-punk-rock.html][2006/01/22/1733751]]) But it also certifies Mr. Snyder's reputation as *the Socrates of* /the late-night airwaves/, capable of disarming some carefully constructed personas with a few innocent questions.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225][Bruce Springsteen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/arts/music/25joel.html][2006/01/25/1734499]]) But in front of this crowd, he wisely hammered out the standards that made him *the Bruce Springsteen of* /Long Island/.
18. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1398][Virgil]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/books/review/29woolridge.html][2006/01/29/1735390]]) Reeves is unlikely to displace Lou Cannon as *the Virgil of* /Reaganland/.
19. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42101][Denzel Washington]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/29haiti.html][2006/01/29/1735706]]) ''He's *the Denzel Washington of* /Haiti/,'' one A.I.D.
20. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38222][George Lucas]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/arts/television/31mtvu.html][2006/01/31/1736019]]) But when the star being interviewed is someone deeply in sync with run-and-gun digital video and visual tone poems -- the supreme example being Mr. Romanek, who is *the George Lucas of* /the video world/ -- the effect can be to suggest entirely new reference points for the arts.
21. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q222818][Eartha Kitt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/nyregion/01bold.html][2006/02/01/1736254]]) But Ms. Kitt certainly did, all fur-coated and heavily made up like *the Eartha Kitt of* our imagination.+
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1086861][Sid James]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/books/review/05miller.html][2006/02/05/1737106]]) Larkin, for instance, *the Sid James of* /English lyric poetry/ (now that was quite a good observation, Dr. Michael Smart firing on all cylinders) knew the power of cliché.''
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/magazine/05coachk_96_101__116_117_.html][2006/02/05/1737164]]) And soon to become, in marketing terms, ''*the Michael Jordan of* /college coaches/,'' according to his agent, David Falk (who is, yes, Jordan's agent).
24. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/arts/music/mozarts-mystery-symphonies.html][2006/02/09/1738454]]) 40 and 41 jump into the business at hand, with a suddenness that foreshadows *the Beethoven of* the Eighth Symphony and last string quartet.+
25. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/11/arts/music/mozarts-mystery-symphonies.html][2006/02/11/1738702]]) 40 and 41 jump into the business at hand, with a suddenness that foreshadows *the Beethoven of* the Eighth Symphony and last string quartet.+
26. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37349][Dalai Lama]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/weekinreview/12kahn.html][2006/02/12/1739161]]) For people outside China, or Chinese who can circumvent the Internet firewall, the 2,030 images on unfiltered Google.com favor *the Dalai Lama of* today.+
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640936][Robert Ryman]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E6DD123EF931A25751C0A9609C8B63][2006/02/12/1739292]]) She is *the Robert Ryman of* /the 21st century/.
28. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/arts/music/a-mozart-who-could-crush-beer-cans.html][2006/02/14/1739551]]) He brought the Staatskapelle Berlin, which he has directed since 1992, to Carnegie Hall for Mozart concerts on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, and his performances argued forcefully for a return to *the Mozart of* the 1940's and 50's.+
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/international/europe/14italy.html][2006/02/14/1739579]]) ''I am *the Jesus Christ of* /politics/,'' he corrected himself in a speech on Saturday.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318475][Randy Newman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/garden/16natu.html][2006/02/16/1739999]]) Mr. Soniat, a songwriter and pianist, is sometimes called *the Randy Newman of* /New Orleans/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11806][John Adams]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/international/africa/16appiah.html][2006/02/16/1740023]]) ''He was *the John Adams of* /his country/; its founding father with Kwame Nkrumah.''
32. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318835][Elliott Carter]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/arts/classical-music-review-bruchs-grand-emotions-the-elliott-carter-of-50.html][2006/02/16/1740206]]) Bruch's Grand Emotions, *the Elliott Carter of* 50 Years Ago, and Hungarian Tunefulness+
33. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56005][Ridley Scott]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/movies/17nigh.html][2006/02/17/1740266]]) A box-office phenomenon in Russia, ''Night Watch'' has established its visually saucy director, Timur Bekmambetov, who wrote the screenplay with Mr. Lukyanenko, as something akin to Russia's answer to *the Ridley Scott of* ''Blade Runner.''+
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2172][Lance Armstrong]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/sports/olympics/17freeman.html][2006/02/17/1740381]]) ''He's sort of *the Lance Armstrong of* /Nordic skiing/,'' said Trond Nystad, the coach of the United States cross-country team.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q502][Stendhal]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/books/review/19gessen.html][2006/02/19/1740659]]) Who is *the Stendhal of* /the stick to the groin/?
36. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55163][Robert Altman]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/movies/redcarpet/19raff.html][2006/02/19/1740722]]) In a way, *the Robert Altman of* this period is like one of the aging outlaws of ''The Wild Bunch'': ''It ain't like it used to be, but it'll do.''+
37. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640936][Robert Ryman]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E4D7133EF93AA25751C0A9609C8B63][2006/02/19/1740780]]) She is *the Robert Ryman of* /the 21st century/.+ (D)
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13685096][Cinderella]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/sports/olympics/20araton.html][2006/02/20/1741167]]) He wasn't even the starting goalie as Switzerland, suddenly *the Cinderella of* /the Olympic hockey tournament/, qualified for the quarterfinals with a 2-2 tie against Germany, the day after Gerber shut out Canada, 2-0.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242936][Susan Lucci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/style/tmagazine/t_w_p172_174_talk_pittman_.html][2006/02/26/1742402]]) Overnight, Hill became what Men's Journal called ''*the Susan Lucci of* /the continuing Everest soap opera/.''
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182580][Shirley Temple]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/arts/music/26kapl.html][2006/02/26/1742521]]) She was *the Shirley Temple of* /the Catskills/.
41. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41142][Jane Fonda]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/02/garden/02fisher.html][2006/03/02/1743544]]) It didn't fit *the Jane Fonda of* that era.+
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105756][John Updike]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/books/review/05itzkoff.html][2006/03/05/1744174]]) Of course, it is entirely possible that Marusek never set out to be *the John Updike of* /the Asimov set/; perhaps he simply intended ''Counting Heads'' to be an effective satire of life as we may someday know it, which it is, albeit one that might require upgrading your brain with the newest Intel microprocessor to comprehend fully.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22686][Donald Trump]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/magazine/305speculator.1.html][2006/03/05/1744200]]) Quinn is a New Orleans native, a hotel impresario of modest local renown for whom Hurricane Katrina has been not just a disaster but also a once-in-a-lifetime chance to realize his dream of becoming *the Donald Trump of* /the Gulf Coast/.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2009573][James Bond]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/arts/television/05itzk.html][2006/03/05/1744250]]) ''It felt right that *the James Bond of* /the future/ would bed anyone,'' said Steven Moffat, the creator of the BBC sitcom ''Coupling'' and the writer of the Captain Jack storyline.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/arts/design/08parks.html][2006/03/08/1745121]]) ''Gordon Parks was like *the Jackie Robinson of* /film/,'' Donald Faulkner, the director of the New York State Writers Institute, once said.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q285536][Imelda Marcos]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/style/tmagazine/t_m_1193_1195_well_playboy_.html][2006/03/12/1745945]]) As he says, ''I am *the Imelda Marcos of* /trainers/.''
47. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/books/review/the-radical.html][2006/03/12/1745972]]) Given that the Jesus who comes down to us does so through the hands of those who believed in him, Wills rejects the familiar distinction between *the Jesus of* history and the Christ of faith.+
48. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/books/review/the-radical.html][2006/03/12/1745972]]) The only Jesus we have is *the Jesus of* faith.+
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69066][Jil Sander]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/travel/12sao.html][2006/03/12/1746051]]) Exquisitely cut dresses and blouses by *the Jil Sander of* /Brazil/.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q873][Meryl Streep]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/theater/newsandfeatures/12calh.html][2006/03/12/1746062]]) 122 from 1983 to 2004, said, ''She's *the Meryl Streep of* /downtown/.''
51. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514][Janis Joplin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/nyregion/thecity/12yoga.html][2006/03/12/1746205]]) Students have called her the drill sergeant of love and *the Janis Joplin of* /yoga/.
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/sports/baseball/14chass.html][2006/03/14/1746784]]) Lee was a pitcher when he played in high school and, Heo suggested, could be considered *the Babe Ruth of* /South Korea/.
53. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4766303][Ann Calvello]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/sports/othersports/17calvello.html][2006/03/17/1747425]]) ''Joe Namath is *the Ann Calvello of* /football/,'' she once said.
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1837775][Jackie Collins]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/books/review/19donadio.html][2006/03/19/1747763]]) A recent novel by Shobha De, considered *the Jackie Collins of* /India/, sold 44,000 copies.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344977][Don King]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/magazine/319boxer.html][2006/03/19/1747792]]) ''The kid took the Cuban to school,'' Frank Warren, a boxing promoter known as ''*the Don King of* /British Boxing/,'' told me.
56. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q958489][Justin Guarini]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/arts/television/19Dede.html][2006/03/19/1747872]]) There's a little entertainment to be found in imagining Jerry Vale as *the Justin Guarini of* /his day/, but this quickly palls.
57. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4030][Duke Ellington]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/arts/music/23icp.html][2006/03/23/1748861]]) Mr. Mengelberg, soloing with the rhythm section, reached for a modern sensibility; he sounded more than a little like *the Duke Ellington of* ''Money Jungle,'' a 1962 outing with Charles Mingus on bass and Max Roach on drums.+
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93341][Miles Davis]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/arts/movies/the-listings-march-24-march-30-italian-jazz-festival.html][2006/03/24/1749068]]) It would be misleading to cast the trumpeter Enrico Rava as *the Miles Davis of* /Italian jazz/.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552806][Wayne Newton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/arts/television/24chef.html][2006/03/24/1749119]]) For one thing, Mr. Hayes seems like an odd target for semiserious satire: nowadays, he seems as much a comic nostalgia figure as a performer, *the Wayne Newton of* /blaxploitation movies/ (''Shaft'' is his ''Danke Schoen'').
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72911][Oliver Hardy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/nyregion/theater/theater-review-in-the-world-of-didi-and-gogo.html][2006/03/26/1749693]]) Mr. Ahlin is *the Oliver Hardy of* /the pair/ -- rotund, (relatively) jolly and topped with a bowler hat.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531759][Peter Mayle]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/garden/30casablanca.html][2006/03/30/1750632]]) Despite the subtitle, Mr. Shah, 39, said he refused to become *the Peter Mayle of* /his generation/.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23728][Larry David]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/arts/television/01wuhl.html][2006/04/01/1751048]]) Does he become *the Larry David of* /history/ with a 10-episode deal, or will he have to curb his enthusiasm after his one shot at teaching?
63. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19074][Samuel P. Huntington]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/books/review/02foer.html][2006/04/02/1751293]]) WILL BLYTHE is *the Samuel P. Huntington of* /hoops/.
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160534][Jack Kerouac]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/arts/television/02heff.html][2006/04/02/1751382]]) In 1955, at 23, Mr. Ishihara became *the Jack Kerouac of* /Japan/, publishing the scandalous novel, ''Season of the Sun,'' which depicted the debauchery of rich college students after the war.
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43432][Justin Timberlake]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/theater/newsandfeatures/02simonson.html][2006/04/02/1751388]]) He has been described as ''*the Justin Timberlake of* /Korea/.''
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311869][Shawn Marion]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/fashion/sundaystyles/02tattoos.html][2006/04/02/1751712]]) 's super freshman, Howland said, ''Thomas is *the Shawn Marion of* /college basketball/.''
67. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24829][Orson Welles]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/arts/13shin.html][2006/04/13/1754098]]) In South Korea, however, he was a major figure of that nation's film industry in the 1950's and 60's, leading some to call him *the Orson Welles of* /South Korea/.
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16199857][Boots]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/world/asia/15afghanistan.html][2006/04/15/1754476]]) Phil Vassar, a Songwriter Who Now Wears *the Boots of* a Singer+
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347395][Luis Guzmán]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/arts/television/16deca.html][2006/04/16/1754994]]) So, do Charles Dierkop, an oddly appealing actor who was *the Luis Guzman of* /the 70's/, and Ed Bernard, who had appeared in ''Shaft,'' as Royster and Styles, funky fellow detectives prone, like so many vintage TV characters, to such period-defining lingo as ''bread,'' ''jive,'' ''heavy'' and the classic ''Freeze, turkey!''
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312407][John Dos Passos]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/theater/16merw.html][2006/04/16/1755018]]) With ''Paradise Lost'' in 1935, his sprawling, deliberately ''de-Jewished'' portrait of a crumbling middle-class family, Odets bid to be *the John Dos Passos of* /the American stage/.
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E7DC143FF933A15757C0A9609C8B63][2006/04/20/1755647]]) Mrs. Draper was *the Martha Stewart of* /her time/.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/nyregion/22image.html][2006/04/22/1756192]]) Image committee members say that students' morale and sense of self-worth is caught up in the university's standing, though they deny that they see the school as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the Ivy League/.
73. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/theater/23kauf.html][2006/04/23/1756331]]) In fact, Mr. Brenton's play presents a Paul who, unlike the other apostles and their less exalted version of events, fervently believes in *the Jesus of* the Gospels.+
74. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148726][Albert Pujols]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/sports/baseball/24shelton.html][2006/04/24/1756832]]) Still, even after going 0 for his last 11, Shelton has been the closest thing to *the Albert Pujols of* the American League, with a .371 average, 9 home runs and 18 runs batted in.+
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/dining/26oyst.html][2006/04/26/1757141]]) You might call him *the Johnny Appleseed of* /ostreiculture/.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313509][Bernard-Henri Lévy]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/technology/computer-care-packages.html][2006/04/29/1757861]]) His 1995 book, ''Being Digital,'' cemented his reputation as *the Bernard-Henri Lévy of* /the digerati/: even when he was right, he made your eyes roll.
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3244512][Harry Potter]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3DD113FF933A05757C0A9609C8B63][2006/04/30/1758426]]) Sky High (2005)  Saturday at 9 p.m. on Starz  Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano, near left, with Kurt Russell) is *the Harry Potter of* /his set/ in this peppy Disney action comedy, directed by Mike Mitchell.
78. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7747][Vladimir Putin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/opinion/05friedman.html][2006/05/05/1759336]]) If Mr. Bush tried to get a sense of Mr. Putin's soul today -- the soul of ''Putin II,'' *the Putin of* $70-a-barrel oil -- he would see down there the huge Russian energy company Gazprom.+
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9434][Arnold Palmer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/books/review/07casey.html][2006/05/07/1759704]]) A man whose daffodils and tulips compete in the Philadelphia show is ''*the Arnold Palmer of* /spring gardening/'' and ''the Botticelli of Bulbs.''
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5669][Sandro Botticelli]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/books/review/07casey.html][2006/05/07/1759704]]) A man whose daffodils and tulips compete in the Philadelphia show is ''the Arnold Palmer of spring gardening'' and ''*the Botticelli of* /Bulbs/.''
81. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q305497][Richard Avedon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/fashion/sundaystyles/07SELIGER.html][2006/05/07/1759939]]) A show by Eikoh Hosoe -- Mr. Seliger calls him ''*the Richard Avedon of* /Japan/'' -- is planned for the fall.
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q885384][Lester Maddox]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/sports/golf/07roberts.html][2006/05/07/1760102]]) ''I think he'll be remembered as *the Lester Maddox of* /sex discrimination/,'' said Burk, referring to the controversial segregationist.
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q410][Carl Sagan]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E5D9163EF93AA35756C0A9609C8B63][2006/05/09/1760490]]) For summarizing Henry Petroski's importance as an explainer and popularizer (''Engineering a Safer, More Beautiful World, One Failure at a Time,'' May 2), another phrase beats ''meistersinger of the guild'': *the Carl Sagan of* /engineering/.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q517][Napoleon]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/books/10grim.html][2006/05/10/1760546]]) Johnson, known as *the Napoleon of* /the Turf/, was stacking the deck.
85. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314712][Barry Bonds]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/dining/10pour.html][2006/05/10/1760554]]) You might call merlot *the Barry Bonds of* /wine/, a real power hitter that fell apart under close scrutiny.
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/garden/11viktor.html][2006/05/11/1760785]]) And he redesigned the pedal car so that it could be stamped out cheaply, inspiring some to call him *the Henry Ford of* /children's toys/.
87. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83338][Robin Williams]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/theater/reviews/12conn.html][2006/05/12/1761010]]) Mr. Connolly, whose two-hour show includes very few slow patches, has been called *the Robin Williams of* /Scotland/, but that's not really accurate.
88. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812][Babe Ruth]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/books/arts/paperback-row.html][2006/05/14/1761444]]) Edelstein, a motor-sports writer for TV Guide, chronicles the bumpy career of Curtis Turner (1924-70), who ran moonshine in the Virginia hills as a teenager and blazed a dirt trail to stardom during Nascar's early years, earning the title of ''*the Babe Ruth of* /stock-car racing/.''
89. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4605][Sarah Bernhardt]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14wwln_safire.html][2006/05/14/1761468]]) The former Fox TV pundit will receive punning attention long denied Treasury Secretary John Snow, *the Sarah Bernhardt of* /the Bush administration/.
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14ctdarts.html][2006/05/14/1761781]]) ''He's the greatest dart shooter who ever lived, *the Tiger Woods of* /darts/,'' Mr. Steinberg said, who was ranked No.
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7349][Joseph Haydn]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/arts/music/16emer.html][2006/05/16/1762032]]) A closer ancestor might be *the Haydn of* ''The Seven Last Words of Christ,'' also a series of unrelieved slow movements, Haydn's seven to Shostakovich's six.+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148726][Albert Pujols]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/fashion/thursdaystyles/18fantasy.html][2006/05/18/1762464]]) LINDSAY LOHAN is *the Albert Pujols of* /her game/: consistent, versatile and kicking the Manolos off the competition.
93. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339][Johann Sebastian Bach]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/arts/music/18thom.html][2006/05/18/1762487]]) Looking back to a time when news traveled slowly if at all, and musicians were working men with deadlines, it is hard to know if *the Bach of* the cantatas was thinking about posterity when he composed, or just the next Sunday.+
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228899][Linda McCartney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/21njROADIES.html][2006/05/21/1763283]]) Though Corey's parents, who are divorced, both attend concerts, Ms. O'Connell goes the extra mile: she is *the Linda McCartney of* /the band/, with at least 700 photos of the fledgling rockers.
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q877858][Chris Daughtry]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/24/arts/television/24idol.html][2006/05/24/1764018]]) (Though Howard Dean was *the Chris Daughtry of* /the 2004 campaign/, even if his scream was louder.)
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7345][Dan Brown]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/arts/design/26giro.html][2006/05/26/1764359]]) Mixing Christian morals with forbidden sex, the book, published in 1801, made Chateaubriand *the Dan Brown of* /his day/.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7377586][Rudy Boesch]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/arts/design/28kenn.html][2006/05/28/1764810]]) But in interviews, a rough outline emerges that casts Mr. Colen as the Richard Hatch -- albeit clothed -- or at least *the Rudy Boesch of* /the show's contemporary-art island/, and that tends to make Ms. Stupak, because of her already-established art connections, something of a diva.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5577][Salvador Dalí]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/automobiles/28RATFINK.html][2006/05/28/1764923]]) Writing about Kustom Kulture in his book ''Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,'' Tom Wolfe described Roth as ''*the Salvador Dali of* /the movement/ -- a surrealist in his designs, a showman by temperament, a prankster.''
99. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1515039][William Morris]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/fashion/sundaystyles/28lassie.html][2006/05/28/1764977]]) Birds & Animals Unlimited -- *the William Morris of* animal talent agencies -- supplied the collies, which among them provided the personality (close-ups), athleticism (stunts), high energy (reaction shots and spontaneity) and people skills (appearances) to portray the character.+
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q548453][Jerome Bettis]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/sports/playmagazine/04camp.html][2006/06/04/1766427]]) The knobby tires are two and a half inches wide, and the whole thing weighs 44 pounds, making it *the Jerome Bettis of* /bicycles/: sure-footed with steamroller-like heft.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217037][Jerry Bruckheimer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/fashion/04BOITE.html][2006/06/04/1766638]]) JEFFREY CHODOROW is *the Jerry Bruckheimer of* /restaurants/.
102. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205282][William Jennings Bryan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05conspiracy.html][2006/06/05/1766967]]) Such ''red flags,'' as they are sometimes called, were the meat and potatoes of the keynote speech on Friday night by Alex Jones, who is *the William Jennings Bryan of* /the 9/11 band/.
103. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/science/06frog.html][2006/06/06/1767059]]) He had them open a container that held *the Michael Jordan of* /jumpers/, a species the biologists liked to call rocket frogs.
104. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34286][Alexander Graham Bell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/world/middleeast/09web.html][2006/06/09/1767765]]) ''I would call him *the Alexander Graham Bell of* /terrorist propaganda/,'' said Evan F. Kohlmann, who follows militants' Web sites at GlobalTerrorAlert.com.
105. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/arts/design/11bell.html][2006/06/11/1768157]]) Linda Hartough, *the Rembrandt of* /the Back Nine/
106. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5598][Rembrandt]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/arts/design/11bell.html][2006/06/11/1768157]]) On the Green With *the Rembrandt of* /the Back 9/+ (D)
107. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07EEDE1531F932A25755C0A9609C8B63][2006/06/11/1768179]]) ''If it is a tax, it's really *the Robin Hood of* /taxes/,'' Mr. Schwartz said.
108. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/nyregion/the-next-thing-in-tolls.html][2006/06/11/1768197]]) ''If it is a tax, it's really *the Robin Hood of* /taxes/,'' Mr. Schwartz said.+ (D)
109. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E4D91531F932A25755C0A9609C8B63][2006/06/11/1768219]]) ''If it is a tax, it's really *the Robin Hood of* /taxes/,'' Mr. Schwartz said.+ (D)
110. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE6D61231F932A25755C0A9609C8B63][2006/06/11/1768470]]) ''If it is a tax, it's really *the Robin Hood of* /taxes/,'' Mr. Schwartz said.+ (D)
111. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/world/asia/15hanoi.html][2006/06/15/1769189]]) Mr. Balaban's next project is to translate into English Vietnam's most famous poem, ''The Tale of Kieu,'' by Nguyen Du, a male contemporary of Ho Xuan Huong sometimes referred to as *the Shakespeare of* /Vietnam/.
112. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34660][J. K. Rowling]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/television/16stan.html][2006/06/16/1769404]]) When *the J. K. Rowling of* /political invective/ decries what she describes as the ''intolerance'' of the mainstream liberal media, it's a little like the Soviet Union complaining about oppression from Finland.
113. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211987][Jon Stewart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/television/16stan.html][2006/06/16/1769404]]) That's mainly because CBS's David Letterman, who was *the Jon Stewart of* /his day/, now seems resigned to a staid second place.
114. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2522402][Harry Winston]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/nyregion/17bling.html][2006/06/17/1769614]]) He's been called *the Harry Winston of* /the hip-hop world/ and the godfather of bling, and several rappers have referred to him in their verses.
115. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311135][Karl Rove]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/magazine/18wwln_idealab.html][2006/06/18/1769818]]) McKinley was an amiable governor around whom Mark Hanna, *the Karl Rove of* /the day/, could raise enormous sums of money from industrial and financial circles.
116. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162629][Simon Cowell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/sports/golf/20sandomir.html][2006/06/20/1770506]]) If Phil Mickelson sees any reason to watch a tape or a DVD of NBC's coverage of his Sunday meltdown at Winged Foot, he will hear himself savaged by Johnny Miller, *the Simon Cowell of* /golf criticism/, and watch his lousy play late in the final round.
117. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380013][Larry Brown]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/sports/soccer/21coaches.html][2006/06/21/1770756]]) Pfister has managed seven African nations, but he is not quite *the Larry Brown of* /soccer/.
118. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/sports/baseball/23clemens.html][2006/06/23/1771196]]) Even though Clemens spoke positively about his performance and was happy that his arm and his legs felt fine, he sounded like *the John Wayne of* /pitchers/ when he stressed that he needed to throw inside more.
119. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215359][Dean Martin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/review/25tbr.html][2006/06/25/1771443]]) White, who looks like a cross between Nick Nolte and James Dickey, is *the Dean Martin of* /this particular Rat Pack/; he usually delivers his routines while waving a lighted cigar and a glass of Scotch.
120. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/nyregion/25kramer.html][2006/06/25/1771764]]) In the play, first produced at the Public Theater in 1985, Larry is Ned Weeks, *the Cassandra of* /the nascent AIDS epidemic/, and Arthur is Ben, his diffident brother, more concerned with building his $2 million house in Connecticut than with taking to the ramparts.
121. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91][Abraham Lincoln]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/weekinreview/02goodheart.html][2006/07/02/1773354]]) ''If he had been successful in the 1840's, *the Lincoln of* history -- the Lincoln who saved the Union -- would never have existed,'' Mr. Shenk says.+
122. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5577][Salvador Dalí]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFD81530F930A35754C0A9609C8B63][2006/07/03/1773515]]) Mr. Adrià (left), the owner and chef of the renowned El Bulli in Castelldefels, Spain, has been called *the Salvador Dalí of* /the kitchen/ for his wildly experimental concoctions, including foamed meats, gelatinous cocktails and aerosol sauces.
123. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6107][Tupac Shakur]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/arts/television/06dave.html][2006/07/06/1774013]]) ''It's like *the Tupac of* /TV shows/,'' Mr. Murphy said.
124. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q346762][Freddie Hubbard]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403EFDA1330F934A35754C0A9609C8B63][2006/07/07/1774183]]) Mr. Pelt, who will turn 30 in November, has an incisive command of his instrument, along with a full, dark-hued tone; at times he can sound like *the Freddie Hubbard of* the 1960's.+
125. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230728][Vera Wang]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/fashion/09vows.html][2006/07/09/1774782]]) Mr. Jaffery's parents had presented Ms. Saleem with antique jewelry as well as a red and gold wedding costume made by Banto Kazmi, whom Dr. Hamiduddin described as ''*the Vera Wang of* /Pakistan/.''
126. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333419][Luther Burbank]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/us/12olmo.html][2006/07/12/1775450]]) Dr. Olmo, Mr. Adams said, became ''*the Luther Burbank of* /the grape/.''
127. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126019][Branch Rickey]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07EED61E3AF935A25754C0A9609C8B63][2006/07/16/1776141]]) Dartmouth and Columbia graduate, WWII veteran, Media Director at Young & Rubicam and Sr. VP Advertising at Lever Bros., ''Newsweek'' referred to him as ''*the Branch Rickey of* /nighttime television/,'' for his leadership in casting minorities in ad campaigns.
128. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189081][Howard Hughes]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/sports/baseball-mcgwires-path-could-predict-bondss.html][2006/07/23/1778021]]) ''Now he's become *the Howard Hughes of* /baseball/,'' said Tom Haudricourt of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
129. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298685][Dr. Seuss]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_q4.html][2006/07/23/1778146]]) We are finding *the Dr. Seuss of* /Nepal/.
130. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q498019][Richard Simmons]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/opinion/science/fat-cats-and-other-beasts-631507.html][2006/07/25/1778420]]) I often joke that I am *the Richard Simmons of* /the veterinary world/, as I spend a good part of my day talking to owners about weight management in their pets.
131. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41921][Rosa Parks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/us/26slough.html][2006/07/26/1778560]]) The long-running controversy began in 1991, when two brothers, Randy and Robert Rose, who some view as *the Rosa Parks of* /the fly-fishing set/, defied the landowners' restrictions and went fishing on the slough.
132. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80048][Al Capone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/nyregion/thecity/30capo.html][2006/07/30/1779562]]) Still, Mr. Bergreen said, *the Al Capone of* Garfield Place was no angel.+
133. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254323][Christine Jorgensen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/sports/football/30goodell.html][2006/07/30/1779701]]) In a speech, Agnew said Goodell was ''*the Christine Jorgensen of* /the Republican Party/.''
134. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6107][Tupac Shakur]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/arts/television/01lado.html][2006/08/01/1779937]]) When he was murdered in 1992 at 32, under mysterious circumstances after a concert in Mexico, he became something like *the Tupac Shakur of* /the narcocorrido/.
135. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201927][David Hasselhoff]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/sports/othersports/02rallycar.html][2006/08/02/1780256]]) Rally car racing is *the David Hasselhoff of* /motor sports/ -- big in Europe, a fringe attraction in the United States.
136. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238948][Typhoid Mary]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/realestate/06cov.html][2006/08/06/1781042]]) An elevator shaft can act as *the Typhoid Mary of* /unpleasant aromas/, sucking them up and distributing them throughout the building's byways, for instance, or a fish-frying neighbor may prop open a front door.
137. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q834621][Bono]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/arts/movies/the-listings-august-11august-17-dashboard-confessional.html][2006/08/11/1782058]]) Whether he will become *the Bono of* /emo/ is not clear, but this weekend at Radio City Music Hall, when Mr. Carrabba's fans join along in shouting his anthems, the sound should be huge.
138. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1316][Saddam Hussein]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/books/review/Manji.t.html][2006/08/13/1782399]]) Shiites tended to emphasize moral victories rather than political ones, taking as their central narrative Hussein's valiant but failed fight against a dictator -- *the Saddam Hussein of* yore.+
139. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6078][Dr. Dre]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/arts/music/13sann.html][2006/08/13/1782475]]) The ''85'' riddim is the work of Dave Kelly, a brilliant producer who could (but wouldn't) claim to be *the Dr. Dre of* /dancehall/.
140. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92759][Larry Ellison]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21options.html][2006/08/21/1784376]]) To many, Jacob Alexander is *the Larry Ellison of* /Israel/ -- minus the flash and dazzle.
141. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209662][Lucille Ball]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/movies/25bmovie.html][2006/08/25/1785109]]) Meld *the Lucille Ball of* ''I Love Lucy'' with the Melanie Griffith of ''Working Girl,'' and you have Judy Holliday, the brilliant comedian who redefined the stereotype of the dumb blonde as ''the smart dumb blonde.''+
142. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176455][Melanie Griffith]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/movies/25bmovie.html][2006/08/25/1785109]]) Meld the Lucille Ball of ''I Love Lucy'' with *the Melanie Griffith of* ''Working Girl,'' and you have Judy Holliday, the brilliant comedian who redefined the stereotype of the dumb blonde as ''the smart dumb blonde.''+
143. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q762][Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/style/tmagazine/t_w_1551_1554_1555_talk_vionne_.html][2006/08/27/1785553]]) Chanel might have had a distinctive look, but Vionnet thought of herself as *the da Vinci of* /dressmaking/, couture's only true artist.
144. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51495][William Wyler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/movies/03raff.html][2006/09/03/1787153]]) (He was a notorious multiple-take perfectionist: *the William Wyler of* /Japan/.)
145. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1369036][Marilyn]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/arts/design/05monr.html][2006/09/05/1787674]]) And in one black-and-white close-up of her asleep, *the Marilyn of* legend comes close to looking ordinary.+
146. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q221048][Jackie Robinson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/opinion/06dowd.html][2006/09/06/1787891]]) She's *the Jackie Robinson of* /network news/, Mr. Moonves told me.
147. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q149997][Zeppo Marx]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/arts/television/06watch.html][2006/09/06/1787907]]) When Elisabeth Hasselbeck, *the Zeppo Marx of* /the foursome/, said she donned a bathing suit to take a bath with her baby daughter, Ms. O'Donnell went wide-eyed at her prudery and recalled that when she took a more natural bath with her daughter, the child asked, ''When do I get my fur?''
148. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q952539][Curtis Martin]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1DE1731F934A3575AC0A9609C8B63][2006/09/07/1788211]]) In 12 years in Australian rules football, Graham, 32, was *the Curtis Martin of* /Geelong/, commanding the lion's share of attention.
149. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q834621][Bono]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/business/media/08fcc.html][2006/09/08/1788260]]) He is also taken up by Mohammad (Charles Daniel Sandoval), a successful Pakistani businessman who recognizes ''*the Bono of* /Lahore/,'' as he hyperbolically calls Ahmad, and offers to help restart his musical career.
150. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170779][Cassandra]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/arts/television/08path.html][2006/09/08/1788278]]) Madeleine K. Albright has also objected to her portrayal, and Mr. Clarke, who is *the Cassandra of* /Al Qaeda/ and one of the film's heroes, has complained about factual distortions.
151. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001][Mahatma Gandhi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/us/08liberties.html][2006/09/08/1788300]]) ''My favorite,'' he said as he recalled one note, ''was that I was '*the Gandhi of* /Portland/.'
152. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190251][Richard Wright]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/books/review/crouch.html][2006/09/10/1788839]]) Doubtless, Flores Forbes does not achieve the kind of depth we would expect from a Ralph Ellison or *the Richard Wright of* ''American Hunger.''+
153. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q616886][Ken Burns]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/business/smallbusiness/12multi.html][2006/09/12/1789368]]) ''They are kind of like *the Ken Burns of* /interactive media/,'' said Jeff Stafford, the technology director for Communications Arts magazine, a Menlo Park, Calif., publication that oversees an annual interactive design awards competition that Second Story has dominated in recent years in the Info-Design category.
154. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2522402][Harry Winston]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/fashion/shows/12DIARY.html][2006/09/12/1789409]]) ''It was a present from 50 when I got out of jail a year ago,'' said Mr. Yayo, a member of the G-Unit, referring to a wristwatch roughly the scale and diameter of a hockey puck, covered with pavé diamonds and designed by Jacob Arabo, *the Harry Winston of* /the bling-bling set/.
155. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021572][Willie Horton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/opinion/13dowd.html][2006/09/13/1789678]]) Bin Laden has become *the Willie Horton of* /the midterms/.
156. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529195][Annie Moore]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/nyregion/14annie.html][2006/09/14/1789908]]) In fact, according to Mrs. Smolenyak Smolenyak's research, *the Annie Moore of* Ellis Island fame settled on the Lower East Side, married a bakery clerk and had 11 children.+
157. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271712][Ida Tarbell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/books/review/Wolff2.t.html][2006/09/17/1790422]]) If there were any doubt, Golden's muckraking investigation -- he's *the Ida Tarbell of* /college admissions/ -- reveals that almost every word uttered by representatives of the top colleges about the care and nuance and science of the much vaunted admissions process is bunk.
158. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q222008][Kathleen Turner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/arts/music/17hold.html][2006/09/17/1790493]]) With her blond hair, deep voice and air of inscrutability, she resembled *the Kathleen Turner of* ''Body Heat,'' but without Ms. Turner's commanding self-assurance and dangerous erotic force field.+
159. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37388][Francis Bacon]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/style/tmagazine/true-grits.html][2006/09/17/1790540]]) If you can't decide among the dozen-plus hickory-smoked selections, you can sign up for *the Bacon of* the Month Club and leave the choosing to them.+
160. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193156][Ralph Nader]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/us/politics/22texas.html][2006/09/22/1791899]]) With even 2 percent of the vote, Mr. Werner could pull enough from another candidate to make a difference, becoming *the Ralph Nader of* /Texas/, 2006.
161. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1238811][James Gould Cozzens]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/books/review/Gorra.t.html][2006/09/24/1792130]]) In this, he resembles *the James Gould Cozzens of* ''Guard of Honor,'' that matchless account of America at the work of war, and Just's fiction offers some of the same pleasures, the same shrewd worldliness.+
162. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310184][George Balanchine]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/arts/dance/24howa.html][2006/09/24/1792245]]) At the front of the room Chitresh Das, the wild-eyed man who styles himself *the George Balanchine of* /Kathak/, slapped the tabla.
163. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/sports/football/24seahawks.html][2006/09/24/1792574]]) But in their locker room, they still view their team as *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /the N.F.L./, a squad craving respect.
164. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/technology/circuits/27fon.html][2006/09/27/1792983]]) Overseeing the distribution of the Fon routers is Andrew Rasiej, *the Johnny Appleseed of* /Fon's New York program/.
165. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8023][Nelson Mandela]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/world/asia/28taiwan.html][2006/09/28/1793222]]) But Mr. Shih, a man sometimes described as *the Nelson Mandela of* /Taiwan/, is now leading a movement that, as he acknowledged in an interview, is heavily composed of Nationalists, his longtime enemies who once ran the country under martial law.
166. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57402][Daniel Ortega]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/world/americas/30nicaragua.html][2006/09/30/1793609]]) ''The Daniel Ortega of today is not *the Daniel Ortega of* years ago,'' he said.+
167. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460833][Trisha Brown]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFD91F31F932A35753C1A9609C8B63][2006/10/01/1793841]]) ODILE DUBOC is *the Trisha Brown of* /French contemporary dance/, much admired during the late 1980's and early 90's for an autodidactic style that -- unlike the work of most of her contemporaries -- focused strongly on pure movement.
168. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225][Bruce Springsteen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/nyregion/thecity/08scri.html][2006/10/08/1795741]]) In the eyes of Judy Kastin, a society member and a professional calligrapher who teaches the craft to grade-school children in Long Island, Mr. Jackson is *the Bruce Springsteen of* /the quill and vellum set/.
169. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6691][Homer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/science/10eisn.html][2006/10/10/1796120]]) That is Jean-Henri Fabre, who himself was called *the Homer of* /the insect world/.
170. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62766][Jay Z]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/arts/music/12sann.html][2006/10/12/1796555]]) (Vibe magazine reaffirmed Jay-Z's role as a hip-hop yardstick by putting T. I. on the cover, accompanied by the question, ''Is he *the Jay-Z of* /the South/?'')
171. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13comi.html][2006/10/13/1796734]]) As for Mr. Crumb, he's still *the Picasso of* /comics/: the unavoidable influence on all younger artists.
172. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q303][Elvis Presley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/arts/music/15waki.html][2006/10/15/1797185]]) Mr. Vernon signed autographs for 45 minutes: for one late September night, he was *the Elvis of* /the brass set/.
173. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q359416][George Hamilton]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/arts/movies/the-listings-oct-20oct26.html][2006/10/20/1798456]]) BARGEMUSIC (Tonight through Sunday) Robert White, the Irish tenor, is *the George Hamilton of* /the vocal world/: an unbowed, ageless veteran.
174. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561019][Beau Brummell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Whitehead.t.html][2006/10/22/1798941]]) Powers has chosen a brain disorder that doubles as handy metaphor for human miscommunication of all kinds, and then added one more element to the mix, in the form of Gerald Weber -- ''the natty neuroscientist,'' ''*the Beau Brummell of* /brain research/'' -- who comes to town to lend a hand, or at least gather material for his collection of psychological oddities.
175. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60465][Wieland Wagner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/movies/22gold.html][2006/10/22/1799005]]) ''The missing link between Dada and contemporary, the continuation of Artaud, *the Wieland Wagner of* /the present time/, tra-la-li, tra-la-lo,'' she says.
176. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712180][Wilford Brimley]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/sports/ncaafootball/25roberts.html][2006/10/25/1799723]]) But how do you bump off *the Wilford Brimley of* /coaches/?
177. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309618][Giorgio Morandi]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/arts/design/27mard.html][2006/10/27/1800043]]) Such comparisons have earned Mr. Marden a kind of flame-keeper status -- something like *the Giorgio Morandi of* /radical abstraction/, a maker of inordinately beautiful, exquisitely made (and expensive) artworks.
178. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/sports/basketball/27sandomir.html][2006/10/27/1800192]]) Their ad is an excerpt from Jay-Z's video of ''Show Me What You Got,'' a song released in advance of ''Kingdom Come'' and which includes the lyric, ''I'm *the Mike Jordan of* /recording/.''
179. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40531][John Wayne]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/sports/playmagazine/1029play_masterclass.html][2006/10/29/1800445]]) John Newcombe Tennis Ranch  Newcombe, who won 26 Grand Slam titles in singles and doubles and who has been called ''*the John Wayne of* /tennis/,'' runs his camp in the Texas Hill Country, near San Antonio.
180. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3399455][Alan Newton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/nyregion/thecity/29dna.html][2006/10/29/1800715]]) In their time together, Ray Newton has been able to assess small changes in his brother's personality; while *the Alan Newton of* old was a little sloppy and disorganized, today he makes an effort to keep his life in order.+
181. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83059][Saul Bellow]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/books/review/Scott.t.html][2006/10/29/1800877]]) If there is a precedent for the Frank Bascombe novels to be found in American letters -- and I'm not sure there is, though Frank himself sometimes casts an eye in the direction of Emerson or Henry James -- it is not John Updike but *the Saul Bellow of* ''Augie March'' and ''Herzog,'' big, baggy novels of character whose heroes were far too emphatically themselves to be typical of anything.+
182. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18917590][Joseph Duveen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/arts/design/03anti.html][2006/11/03/1801765]]) ''Hanns Weinberg was *the Joseph Duveen of* /antique porcelain/,'' said Ms. Beiny, comparing her grandfather to the flamboyant early-20th-century dealer who sold old master paintings to American tycoons.
183. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40523][Julia Roberts]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/movies/moviesspecial/05break.html][2006/11/05/1802313]]) KNOWN as *the Julia Roberts of* /Spain/, Paz Vega made her American debut two years ago in the big-budget film ''Spanglish.''
184. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/world/europe/06italy.html][2006/11/06/1802795]]) Frederic Collignon, a 30-year-old who works as a car salesman in Liège, Belgium, but who is considered by his fans to be *the Michael Jordan of* /foosball/, said, ''Nice mountains, nice view, a little bit too cold, and it is different from Vegas, but I still like the town.''
185. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104000][Lauren Bacall]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/reviews/08rest.html][2006/11/08/1803150]]) ''This is *the Lauren Bacall of* /cheeses/,'' he said of the Beenleigh Blue, an English delicacy made from sheep's milk.
186. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616][Marilyn Monroe]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/arts/music/08emma.html][2006/11/08/1803158]]) Curvaceous, cuddlesome and irresistibly charming, the ''Introduction and Allegro'' is something like *the Marilyn Monroe of* /the classical-music repertory/.
187. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193146][Anthony Perkins]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/movies/10hars.html][2006/11/10/1803606]]) Whether stocky or emaciated, Mr. Bale has the look of a man staring into the abyss: think of the young Oliver North crossed with *the Anthony Perkins of* ''Psycho.''+
188. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7245][Mark Twain]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/business/10diesel.html][2006/11/10/1803630]]) ''Cummins is *the Mark Twain of* /the engine business/,'' said Mike Osega, the publisher of the trade magazine Diesel Progress.
189. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102462][James Stewart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/arts/music/11tayl.html][2006/11/11/1803780]]) Thus spoke this singer-songwriter, who might be described as *the Jimmy Stewart of* /folk rock/, in his first Manhattan concert in five years.
190. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130531][Hieronymus Bosch]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/magazine/12segura.html][2006/11/12/1804014]]) A mighty wind, though, is just the beginning of basic gross-out, and Santiago Segura is *the Hieronymus Bosch of* /gross/.
191. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55800][Oprah Winfrey]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/arts/whats-on-tonight.html][2006/11/13/1804470]]) This documentary looks at some of the celebrities whose faces have replaced the ubiquitous images of the fallen leader, including Majed Yassin, an up-and-coming comic, and Shaima Zubeir, who is sometimes called *the Oprah of* /Iraq/.
192. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/arts/television/24mado.html][2006/11/24/1806933]]) Perhaps she knows that many in her audience miss *the Madonna of* so many Madonnas ago, the one who refused refinement and probably thought Oxford was just an insurance company.+
193. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1516578][Urban Meyer]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/sports/ncaafootball/29roberts.html][2006/11/29/1808166]]) And in his ascent from obscurity, he has become *the Urban Meyer of* /2006/ as the object of pursuit.
194. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505431][Michael Vick]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/sports/football/02rhoden.html][2006/12/02/1808794]]) Taliaferro was *the Michael Vick of* /his day/ -- and then some.
195. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23][George Washington]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/review/Handy.t.html][2006/12/03/1808861]]) Otherwise, he's *the George Washington of* /popular culture/: familiar but indistinct, ubiquitous but remote.
196. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1744][Madonna]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/style/tmagazine/03tchain.html][2006/12/03/1808936]]) The 22-karat gold charms are the signature pieces: a tigress claw, an ohm, *the Madonna of* the Miraculous Medal and the figa, a traditional Brazilian good-luck symbol.+
197. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4883][Ron Howard]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/movies/03olse.html][2006/12/03/1809018]]) But *the Ron Howard of* ''Night Shift'' preceded the director of ''A Beautiful Mind,'' and before Sean Penn's Oscar turns came Jeff Spicoli.+
198. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q692][William Shakespeare]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/washington/04gala.html][2006/12/04/1809466]]) Mr. Lloyd Webber is often referred to as *the Shakespeare of* /his time/ with musicals like ''Jesus Christ Superstar,'' ''Evita'' ''Cats'' and ''The Phantom of the Opera.''
199. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/nyregion/04stone.html][2006/12/04/1809508]]) For Mr. Stone, the history lesson began five years ago, when, as a new principal, he squeezed $40,000 out of an already tight budget to open a weight-training room for the Indians, which had been *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /teams in the city/, and hired a storied former high school running back, Altarik White, as coach to lead them.
200. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1338802][Emmitt Smith]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E2DB1631F935A35751C1A9609C8B63][2006/12/06/1809897]]) Elam might have had more luck if he had channeled Tommy Davis, *the Emmitt Smith of* /running kickers/.
201. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270324][Patti LuPone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/theater/08theater.html][2006/12/08/1810200]]) What I mean is that *the Patti LuPone of* 1980 lives again, at Joe's Pub, in the enterprising person of Leslie Kritzer, left, a would-be, should-be Broadway diva paying homage to one of the last of the greats in a strange but wonderful new club act.+
202. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q551032][John Wooden]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/sports/soccer/08araton.html][2006/12/08/1810379]]) Years before her mother would co-write a book with Anson Dorrance -- *the John Wooden of* /women's college soccer/, whose Tar Heel program spawned, among others, Mia Hamm -- Yael was insisting that was where she would go.
203. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186][Ken Jennings]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/books/review/Burrough.t.html][2006/12/10/1810595]]) But Lawson, presumably viewing Oldham as *the Ken Jennings of* /criminalia/, falls prey to the common trap of letting only the caged canary sing.
204. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10youtube.html][2006/12/10/1810666]]) ''I actually consider myself the Stalin of basketball,'' he says, ''*the Hitler of* /basketball/, the Pol Pot of basketball.''
205. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39464][Pol Pot]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10youtube.html][2006/12/10/1810666]]) ''I actually consider myself the Stalin of basketball,'' he says, ''the Hitler of basketball, *the Pol Pot of* /basketball/.''
206. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855][Joseph Stalin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10youtube.html][2006/12/10/1810666]]) ''I actually consider myself *the Stalin of* /basketball/,'' he says, ''the Hitler of basketball, the Pol Pot of basketball.''
207. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2808][Elton John]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/books/11masl.html][2006/12/11/1811150]]) Though Foujita had a fashion sense that made him look like *the Elton John of* /Montparnasse/ (he favored earrings, bangs and show-stopping homemade costumes), and though he is seen here hand in hand with a male Japanese friend during their shared tunic-wearing phase, he is viewed by Ms. Birnbaum strictly as a lady-killer.
208. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4636][Barbra Streisand]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/movies/the-listings-dec-15-dec-21.html][2006/12/15/1811897]]) SARAH SAVELLI (Tonight) There is only one night to see Ms. Savelli, an Ohio dancer whom the tap diva Jane Goldberg describes as *the Barbra Streisand of* /tap/, in a program with guests including Ayodele Casel.
209. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q355314][Jack Welch]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/business/15private.html][2006/12/15/1812010]]) ''He's kind of like *the Jack Welch of* /private equity/,'' referring to the former chief executive of General Electric.
210. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323920][Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/fashion/17marc.html][2006/12/17/1812547]]) ''There's four of us,'' said Kyle Avila, *the Michelangelo of* /the bunch/, adorably holding up his three turtle fingers.+
211. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23844][George Clooney]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/weekinreview/17MacFARQUHAR.html][2006/12/17/1812639]]) ''All the talk is about Mr. Ahmadinejad, he's become *the George Clooney of* /the political world/.
212. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336581][Red Auerbach]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/sports/basketball/17hoops.html][2006/12/17/1812640]]) ''I thought I'd be *the Red Auerbach of* /that franchise/, just end up being an adviser,'' Nelson said of his former mentor with the Celtics.
213. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7245][Mark Twain]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/movies/homevideo/19dvd.html][2006/12/19/1812933]]) 'PRESTON STURGES -- THE FILMMAKER COLLECTION' (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, $59.98) Sturges, *the Mark Twain of* /American movies/, receives his belated due from Universal, the studio that currently owns most of his important work.
214. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194280][Hugh Hefner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/business/19deal.html][2006/12/19/1813035]]) Mr. Charney has gained a reputation as *the Hugh Hefner of* /retailing/, decorating his stores with covers of Penthouse magazine and admitting in interviews to sleeping with employees.
215. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40523][Julia Roberts]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/arts/music/22chea.html][2006/12/22/1813555]]) Anna Netrebko, *the Julia Roberts of* /opera/, was singing her one and only Mimì of the season, and tickets had been sold out for months.
216. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34670][Albert Camus]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/24tbr.html][2006/12/24/1813939]]) CHEWING ON HANNIBAL: Martin Amis has described Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the antihero of Thomas Harris's novels, as ''*the Camus of* /carnage/.''
217. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81752][Anton Bruckner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/arts/music/24holl.html][2006/12/24/1814011]]) That night Mr. Feldman seemed to me *the Anton Bruckner of* /silence/.
218. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44616][Wyatt Earp]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/movies/homevideo/26dvd.html][2006/12/26/1814491]]) Mr. Douglas is a rakish highwayman who is sent to jail for stealing $500,000 from the safe of a not-so-respectable businessman (Arthur O'Connell); Fonda, drawing on the two great figures of moral rectitude he created with John Ford, the title character of ''Young Mr. Lincoln'' and *the Wyatt Earp of* ''My Darling Clementine,'' is a straight-arrow sheriff who takes over the notoriously inhuman desert prison that Mr. Douglas has been sent to, hoping to transform the downtrodden, dehumanized inmates into useful members of society by allowing them to build their own dining hall.+
219. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1426891][Michael Myers]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/sports/football/26giants.html][2006/12/26/1814577]]) But the Giants are *the Michael Myers of* /football teams/.
220. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546591][Joe Paterno]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/sports/ncaafootball/30rutgers.html][2006/12/30/1815276]]) Players refer to him as *the Joe Paterno of* /Rutgers/.
221. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218718][Jay Leno]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/movies/31farb.html][2006/12/31/1815413]]) Mr. Mazursky appears in the film as a genial tour guide, and he shares the screen with a diverse array of pilgrims, including Mr. Miretsky; a Hasidic rock 'n' roll musician; a comedian known as *the Jay Leno of* /Tel Aviv/; and a neurosurgeon who offers a concise history of Jews in Ukraine.

** 2007
1. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255][Ludwig van Beethoven]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/arts/music/06phil.html][2007/01/06/1816650]]) Between those moments, if the performance wasn't *the Beethoven of* your dreams, it was never less than respectable.+
2. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q167518][Neal Cassady]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/Johnson.t.html][2007/01/07/1816844]]) Bound for Albuquerque with the loquacious Richard Feynman, *the Neal Cassady of* /physics/, at the wheel, the two scientists talked nonstop about the morality of nuclear weapons and, when they had exhausted that subject, how photons dance with electrons to produce the physical world.
3. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272012][Eddie Van Halen]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/arts/music/15hass.html][2007/01/15/1819051]]) Then he dropped to his knees for a lengthy spotlight turn -- like *the Eddie Van Halen of* /the sintir/.
4. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41601][Phil Mahre]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/sports/othersports/15mahre.html][2007/01/15/1819107]]) ''Bode is definitely *the Phil Mahre of* /our time/,'' Cochran said.
5. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51114][John Ford]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/movies/homevideo/16dvd.html][2007/01/16/1819187]]) Genre buffs will enjoy seeing Liu Chia-liang, the veteran director (''The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter,'' ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'') who might be described as *the John Ford of* /Kung Fu/, in a leading role, though the film's other pleasures are sparse.
6. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296][Claude Monet]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/arts/design/17mone.html][2007/01/17/1819396]]) Revealing *the Monet of* Pencil and Paper+
7. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q380429][Tony Robbins]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/magazine/21Gambling.t.html][2007/01/21/1820222]]) Wayne's Web site is full of references to him as ''the king of Vegas,'' ''the Warren Buffett'' of gambling, ''the oddsmaker of everything in the world,'' *the Tony Robbins of* /gambling/.
8. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47139][Slobodan Milošević]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/us/22bar.html][2007/01/22/1820673]]) He said he hoped not to be portrayed as ''*the Slobodan Milosevic of* /Roommates.com/.''
9. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47899][Paris Hilton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/us/politics/24obama.html][2007/01/24/1821182]]) Of Mr. Cooper's comment, she said, ''Yet another cry for attention by *the Paris Hilton of* /television news/, Anderson Cooper.''
10. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/nyregion/27trixie.html][2007/01/27/1821801]]) Some New York write-ups referred to her as *the Garbo of* /Detroit/, and to Miss Randolph ''that's still a mystery,'' she said.
11. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/nyregion/27trixie.html][2007/01/27/1821801]]) True, five decades ago Miss Randolph was dubbed *the Garbo of* Detroit, but she genuinely seems to enjoy greeting Honeymoonies, as the show's most ardent fans are called.+
12. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34424][Shakira]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/nyregion/31neediest.html][2007/01/31/1822747]]) ''I was *the Shakira of* /the school/,'' she said.
13. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243][Leo Tolstoy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Tanenhaus.t.html][2007/02/04/1823562]]) In ''Henderson,'' I detected ominous foreshadowings of the elderly Bellow's mischievous joke about multiculturalism -- ''Who is *the Tolstoy of* /the Zulus/?
14. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37767][T. S. Eliot]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Glover.t.html][2007/02/04/1823565]]) But while in many ways pessimistic, ''Man Gone Down'' also relies on *the Eliot of* ''Four Quartets.''+
15. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q253167][Margaux Hemingway]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/magazine/04wwlnsafire.t.html][2007/02/04/1823588]]) In April 1976, Clifford Terry wrote in The Chicago Tribune about the actress Louise Lasser, whose role in the TV series ''Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman'' was ''becoming a media darling, sort of *the Margaux Hemingway of* /the Crock Pot set/.''
16. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8023][Nelson Mandela]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04boss.html][2007/02/04/1823794]]) It was still a Portuguese colony and he was kind of *the Nelson Mandela of* /Mozambique/.
17. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266611][Ann Coulter]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/books/06kaku.html][2007/02/06/1824127]]) With this book, Dinesh D'Souza, the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has officially become *the Ann Coulter of* /the think tank set/.
18. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6175319][Jeff Zucker]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/business/media/07zucker.html][2007/02/07/1824427]]) ''I would definitely say *the Jeff Zucker of* 1986'' -- the year he graduated -- ''had enough self-confidence to predict that the Jeff Zucker of 2007 would be running NBC.''+
19. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6175319][Jeff Zucker]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/business/media/07zucker.html][2007/02/07/1824427]]) ''I would definitely say the Jeff Zucker of 1986'' -- the year he graduated -- ''had enough self-confidence to predict that *the Jeff Zucker of* 2007 would be running NBC.''+
20. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23728][Larry David]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/arts/television/11lim.html][2007/02/11/1825308]]) In Curtis, Mr. McKellar created a sitcom protagonist even more complex and unlikely than *the Larry David of* ''Curb Your Enthusiasm.''+
21. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6101][Marco Polo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/sports/11chass.html][2007/02/11/1825570]]) The Yankees were not *the Marco Polo of* /baseball/.
22. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58590][Yao Ming]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/sports/11chass.html][2007/02/11/1825570]]) Levine did not come back with *the Yao Ming of* /Chinese baseball/ because no such person exists.
23. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180453][Dolly Parton]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/dining/14velv.html][2007/02/14/1826062]]) ''It's *the Dolly Parton of* /cakes/: a little bit tacky, but you love her,'' said Angie Mosier, a food writer in Atlanta and a board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
24. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122634][Robin Hood]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/travel/18hours.html][2007/02/18/1826948]]) Cocktails and Kitsch  For more kitschy good times, head to Malverde (Amsterdam at Teotihuacán, Condesa; 52-5584-0486), named after Jesús Malverde, venerated as *the Robin Hood of* /Mexico/.
25. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1152754][Mary Boone]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/travel/18hanoi.html][2007/02/18/1826951]]) Could this be *the Mary Boone of* /Hanoi/?
26. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95026][Shirley MacLaine]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/style/tmagazine/25tfuture.html][2007/02/25/1828518]]) While it's tempting to dismiss him as *the Shirley MacLaine of* /fashion/, Mugler moonwalks it like he talks it and has steadfastly adhered to his fantastical aesthetic since the early 1970s.
27. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3240869][Al Roker]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/arts/music/25ratliff.html][2007/02/25/1828625]]) It's Jack Lescoulie, an announcer on the ''Today'' show, *the Al Roker of* /his day/.
28. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182665][Iggy Pop]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/arts/music/25ratliff.html][2007/02/25/1828625]]) Still, Ron Asheton says *the Iggy Pop of* today is not altogether unfamiliar.+
29. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30547][Mother Teresa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/opinion/25kristof.html][2007/02/25/1828883]]) Dr. Hamlin is *the Mother Teresa of* /our age/.
30. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q731168][Cal Ripken]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/sports/ncaabasketball/25cheer.html][2007/02/25/1828938]]) For 38 years, from the 1968-69 season until illness forced him from his courtside seat in November, Beagle was also *the Cal Ripken of* /statisticians/.
31. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q473208][Roger Clemens]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/business/26kkr.html][2007/02/26/1829043]]) ''He is *the Roger Clemens of* /the industry/.
32. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2640705][Mario Batali]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/arts/television/27cake.html][2007/02/27/1829202]]) We are to think of him as *the Mario Batali of* /sugar/.
33. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436386][Rodney Dangerfield]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/nyregion/27primary.html][2007/02/27/1829251]]) ''It's time we stopped being *the Rodney Dangerfield of* /presidential primaries/ and sent a clear message to candidates,'' Senate President Richard J. Codey said.
34. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19673][Al Gore]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/fashion/shows/03paris.html][2007/03/03/1830023]]) He is a bit like *the Al Gore of* /fashion/: it took a while for people to get his message.
35. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2632][Ringo Starr]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/arts/television/03stan.html][2007/03/03/1830035]]) Mary Magdalene is *the Ringo of* /this inquiry/.
36. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/opinion/03dowd.html][2007/03/03/1830102]]) When *the Tiger Woods of* /politics/ goes to a civil rights commemoration in Selma, Ala., this weekend -- just as the story breaks that his white ancestors had slaves -- he will compete for attention with Hillary and the man billed as the first black president.
37. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215805][Peter Max]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/automobiles/04COLANI.html][2007/03/04/1830465]]) In the 1960s, Mr. Colani in his Nehru jackets was *the Peter Max of* /design/ and was known around the world.
38. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93843][Derrick Brooks]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/sports/football/09anderson.html][2007/03/09/1831690]]) I want you to be *the Derrick Brooks of* /this defense/.
39. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1430][Marcus Aurelius Antoninus]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/books/review/Crime.t.html][2007/03/11/1831985]]) Reginald Hill's crude and canny policeman (''*the Marcus Aurelius of* /mid-Yorkshire/'' to those who love him) is nothing less than a force of nature in these idiosyncratic procedurals, and the act of terrorism that has his life hanging by a thread may pose an even graver threat to the natural order of his kind of genre novel.
40. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3268056][Mr. Chips]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/fashion/11jared.html][2007/03/11/1832328]]) Dealing with scrutiny is one of many aspects of an unusual on-the-job education he is receiving from Mr. Kaplan, who has called himself *the Mr. Chips of* /New York journalism/, greeting each arriving class of boys (and girls), whose youth never changes.
41. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298185][Samuel Sánchez]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/sports/baseball/12sosa.ready.html][2007/03/12/1832493]]) Sosa Tries to Prove He’s Still *the Sammy of* Old+
42. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13prof.html][2007/03/13/1832608]]) Colleagues have teasingly called Dr. Tao a rock star and *the Mozart of* /Math/.
43. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129041][Carmelo Anthony]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/sports/ncaabasketball/15vecsey.html][2007/03/15/1833173]]) The real issue is who will be *the Carmelo Anthony of* /this year/, a reference to the man among boys who led Syracuse to its national title in 2003, as a freshman, and then turned pro.
44. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532329][George Mason]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/sports/ncaabasketball/15vecsey.html][2007/03/15/1833173]]) Everybody is talking about which team will be *the George Mason of* /this year's tournament/, meaning the charming outsider that made a run to the Final Four last year.
45. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316161][Lenny Wilkens]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/sports/ncaabasketball/16vecsey.html][2007/03/16/1833380]]) Law is the smooth lefty point guard who just might be *the Lenny Wilkens of* /the next decade/.
46. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529][Louis Pasteur]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Kirn.t.html][2007/03/18/1833651]]) He acts as if he were *the Louis Pasteur of* /poverty/, identifying its forms for the first time through the lens of some sociological microscope.
47. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2849991][Anil Kumble]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20plane.html][2007/03/20/1834343]]) A U.S. Star Turn For *the Jumbo of* Jets+
48. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1036920][John Pawson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/fashion/22CRITIC.html][2007/03/22/1834641]]) The pieces are undeniably chic, especially those by David Netto (*the John Pawson of* /the nursery set/) and Ooba, whose Eames-like bassinette ($600) could be part of MoMA's permanent collection.
49. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q254][Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/obituaries/24stein.html][2007/03/24/1835075]]) But if there was honor in being *the Mozart of* ''/The Mole People/'' (1956), there was little glory.
50. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229437][Donatella Versace]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/travel/tmagazine/03get.sourcing.t.html][2007/03/25/1835279]]) For Laura Sorbatti, Marco's cousin and the owner of the firm Icas, whose love of hot pants and sunlamps has made her *the Donatella Versace of* /the hat world/, that chapeau is a hideous cap with the word ''gold'' picked out in rhinestones.
51. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1268][Frédéric Chopin]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/arts/music/27lort.html][2007/03/27/1835950]]) Mr. Adès's ''Traced Overhead'' recalled *the Chopin of* the ''Études,'' though reborn as something delicate and diffuse.+
52. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/books/28grim.html][2007/03/28/1836163]]) Each factory has a basketball team, and Mr. Thomas, a first-round draft pick, emerges as *the Michael Jordan of* /the South Korean penal system/.
53. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9696][John F. Kennedy]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/travel/escapes/30airport.html][2007/03/30/1836640]]) TERMINAL 4, with mostly international flights, seems to represent *the Kennedy of* the future -- a gathering place built around upscale shopping and dining, perfect for its global clientele.+
54. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q873][Meryl Streep]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/style/tmagazine/04get.samurai.tst.t.html][2007/04/01/1837057]]) I wanted *the Meryl Streep of* /toasters/, a Hepburn; either would do.
55. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434513][Alice Waters]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/dining/04city.html][2007/04/04/1837956]]) Although Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, recently weighed in on the 2007 Farm Bill and many mayors have taken up the anti-obesity cause, no mayor of a large urban city has stood up and become, in essence, *the Alice Waters of* /city food politics/.
56. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/opinion/07wright.html][2007/04/07/1838471]]) One of the few things Osama bin Laden has in common with *the Jesus of* the Gospels is belief in the power of viral marketing.+
57. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937][Albert Einstein]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/sports/hockey/08brodeur.html][2007/04/08/1838964]]) ''Marty might be *the Einstein of* goalies.''+
58. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936132][Monty Hall]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/business/media/09adcol.html][2007/04/09/1839119]]) Miles S. Nadal, *the Monty Hall of* /Madison Avenue/, is at it again, doing what he loves to do best: making deals.
59. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57285][Wilhelm Furtwängler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/arts/music/10pass.html][2007/04/10/1839266]]) Sometimes his spacious timing and his feel for musical architecture make him seem *the Wilhelm Furtwängler of* /early-music conductors/.
60. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592][Michelangelo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/fashion/12GUNN.html][2007/04/12/1839640]]) Mr. Gunn is *the Michelangelo of* /the form/.
61. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q457840][Will Rogers]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/theater/reviews/13wind.html][2007/04/13/1839862]]) But he doesn't coast on the plain-spoken wisdom of a character presented as *the Will Rogers of* /jurisprudence/.
62. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55415][Leni Riefenstahl]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/washington/13diplo.html][2007/04/13/1839968]]) In a March 28 op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, she warned Mr. Spielberg that he could ''go down in history as *the Leni Riefenstahl of* /the Beijing Games/,'' a reference to a German filmmaker who made Nazi propaganda films.
63. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302][Jesus Christ]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/world/europe/14pope.html][2007/04/14/1840068]]) ''I have tried to present *the Jesus of* the Gospels as the real Jesus, as the historical Jesus in the true sense,'' he wrote.+
64. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56005][Ridley Scott]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/movies/15mcgr.html][2007/04/15/1840317]]) Mr. Lawrence, whose previous movie was ''Lantana,'' an Altmanesque story of multiple strands about four unhappy couples, is *the Ridley Scott of* /Australia/, the country's most successful director of television commercials.
65. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148726][Albert Pujols]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/sports/baseball/15cheer.html][2007/04/15/1840597]]) ''He is *the Albert Pujols of* /fantasy sports/, a player who consistently produces, a player who is money in the bank.''
66. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/sports/hockey/17devils.html][2007/04/17/1841042]]) Billed as *the Michael Jordan of* /hockey/ by a former Lightning owner, Lecavalier appeared to be on a career path more like Sam Bowie's, his 37 points in 76 games in his fourth season seeming to cement his underachieving status.
67. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181413][Julie Christie]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/movies/18chri.html][2007/04/18/1841111]]) But either way, she seems at peace with herself, away from the shadow of *the Julie Christie of* yore.+
68. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181413][Julie Christie]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/movies/18chri.html][2007/04/18/1841111]]) She is not even much interested in *the Julie Christie of* legend.+
69. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483512][Isadora Duncan]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/arts/design/20anci.html][2007/04/20/1841510]]) It's a small bronze sculpture, not nine inches tall, *the Isadora Duncan of* /ancient Alexandria/.
70. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10993][Tiger Woods]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/business/yourmoney/22goods.html][2007/04/22/1842189]]) Mr. Johannson calls Mr. Ley ''*the Tiger Woods of* /micro golfers/.''
71. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93341][Miles Davis]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/weekinreview/22wong.html][2007/04/22/1842224]]) He has become a great improviser, *the Miles Davis of* /the war/.
72. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8768][Henry Ford]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/business/24road.html][2007/04/24/1842575]]) ''Vern told me he wanted to be *the Henry Ford of* /aviation/.''
73. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79904][J. D. Salinger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/sports/golf/29roberts.html][2007/04/29/1843943]]) Woods is a schedule recluse, *the J. D. Salinger of* /golf/.
74. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23434][Ernest Hemingway]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/books/30masl.html][2007/04/30/1844006]]) Mr. Browne also points out that when he introduced Mr. Zevon to an audience as ''*the Ernest Hemingway of* /the twelve-string guitar/,'' Mr. Zevon said he was more like Charles Bronson.
75. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7374][Alfred Hitchcock]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/sports/baseball/02roberts.html][2007/05/02/1844502]]) Clomid is *the Alfred Hitchcock of* /drugs/, with its profile in at least one scene of every baseball steroid saga.
76. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41421][Michael Jordan]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/sports/othersports/03boxing.html][2007/05/03/1844722]]) He's *the Michael Jordan of* /boxing/.''
77. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216896][L. Ron Hubbard]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/0506bb-paperback.html][2007/05/06/1845209]]) ''Once the reader despairs of ever finding out whether Smith was God's own spokesman or *the L. Ron Hubbard of* /his day/, it's possible to enjoy a tale that's as colorful, suspenseful and unlikely as any in American history,'' Walter Kirn wrote here.
78. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018][Augustine of Hippo]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/books/review/Mallon-t.html][2007/05/13/1846872]]) It has always been convenient to see John Donne (1572-1631) as *the St. Augustine of* /English letters/, made priestly and pure in his own good time, and not too soon to have produced the brainy carnal thrustings of his early love poems.
79. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207405][Zsa Zsa Gabor]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/garden/17chickens.html][2007/05/17/1847901]]) We were thrilled to discover she was a rather fancy type known as a Frizzle -- *the Zsa Zsa Gabor of* /chickens/.
80. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5593][Pablo Picasso]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/arts/design/18nang.html][2007/05/18/1848087]]) The 18th-century painter and calligrapher Ike Taiga was something like *the Pablo Picasso of* /Japan/.
81. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19673][Al Gore]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/magazine/20wwln-gore-t.html][2007/05/20/1848550]]) But *the Al Gore of* September 2005 was not the Saint Albert of today.+
82. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234606][Martha Stewart]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/arts/television/20tvcol.html][2007/05/20/1848574]]) THE SECRET LIFE OF MRS. BEETON (13, 49) Anna Madeley plays Isabella Beeton, whose ''Book of Household Management'' sold millions of copies and made her *the Martha Stewart of* /1860s Britain/, in this ''Masterpiece Theater'' biopic.
83. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8704][Walt Disney]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/movies/20kehr.html][2007/05/20/1848597]]) Even the death of Bambi's mother pales in comparison to the bloody war between a mining camp and the resident spirits of a mountain forest at the center of Hayao Miyazaki's ''Princess Mononoke,'' a 1997 film by the animator most often called *the Walt Disney of* /Japan/.
84. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/movies/21cann.html][2007/05/21/1849039]]) He's still *the P. T. Barnum of* /activist cinema/, but he no longer runs the entire circus directly from the spotlight.
85. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1172589][Dathan Ritzenhein]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE2D61630F936A15756C0A9619C8B63][2007/05/25/1849859]]) Mottram ran in a 10,000-meter race last Saturday in Central Park, finishing second to *the Dathan Ritzenhein of* the United States.+
86. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193368][Ted Turner]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/arts/design/27fiel.html][2007/05/27/1850120]]) You could think of him as *the Ted Turner of* /great moments in sports history/, except that Mr. Kreindler doesn't rely on computerized colorization but instead conducts painstaking research to ensure that the hues he chooses are accurate.
87. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E5DB1630F934A15756C0A9619C8B63][2007/05/27/1850170]]) On loan from the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, it is *the Mona Lisa of* fakes.+
88. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153032][Mona Lisa]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/27artsct.html][2007/05/27/1850190]]) On loan from the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, it is *the Mona Lisa of* fakes.+
89. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181989][John Maine]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/sports/baseball/28mets.html][2007/05/28/1850579]]) Another is their starting pitching, particularly *the John Maine of* April and Oliver Pérez, which has prevented the bullpen from being overused.+
90. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223766][P. T. Barnum]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/travel/escapes/01Lecture.html][2007/06/01/1851208]]) Mr. Johnson, who had been a crew member on Jack London's ill-fated 1907 voyage on the Snark, was *the P. T. Barnum of* /the lecture circuit/ and one of the earliest adventure-film makers.
91. +[[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298016][Fred Thompson]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/us/politics/01watch.html][2007/06/01/1851248]]) But *the Fred Thompson of* ''Law & Order'' fame is better suited as chief of staff.+
92. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369675][Johnny Appleseed]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Teresi-t.html][2007/06/03/1851623]]) In 1993, he attended a lecture by Terence McKenna, the ''geeky American'' who became *the Johnny Appleseed of* /psilocybin/.
93. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60809][Ansel Adams]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/travel/10cultured-gt.html][2007/06/10/1853443]]) A 52-year-old photographer from Little Rock, Ark., Mr. McDermott may be *the Ansel Adams of* /Angkor/.
94. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352][Adolf Hitler]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10payne-t.html][2007/06/10/1853459]]) (''LeftyHenry,'' a recent poster on a political blog, was less subtle in his criticism; he called Payne ''*the Hitler of* /American academics/.'')
95. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336303][Michael Brown]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/opinion/11mon2.html][2007/06/11/1853778]]) Mr. Gonzales is *the Michael Brown of* /the Justice Department/, smilingly presiding over incompetence, chaos and malfeasance, while President Bush insists that he is doing a heck of a job.
96. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550381][Dick Wolf]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/arts/television/12lear.html][2007/06/12/1853926]]) Denis Leary would seem an unlikely candidate to become *the Dick Wolf of* /dark/, morally muddied TV series about firefighters, cops and lawyers -- and perhaps no more so than on a morning last week on an Upper East Side playground.
97. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2685][Arnold Schwarzenegger]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/dining/reviews/13wine.html][2007/06/13/1854107]]) Aldo called it *the Arnold Schwarzenegger of* /zweigelts/, and not coincidentally it was the most expensive zweigelt in the tasting, at $28.
98. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5443][Greta Garbo]] ([[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/opinion/13dowd.html][2007/06/13/1854256]]) We'll have to wait to see if David Chase, *the Garbo of* /goombahs/ now pursued by a feral beast of disappointed ''Sopranos'' fans, is feeling as paranoid and thin-skinned as the two Tonys, and as deeply surprised by the consequences of his actions.
99. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q162629][Simon Cowell]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/arts/television/16tvcol.html][2007/06/16/1854714]]) (She is billed as *the Simon Cowell of* /matchmaking/.)
100. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381178][Bob Barker]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/18/arts/television/18stan.html][2007/06/18/1855371]]) So it's not surprising that Simon Schama, a Columbia University professor, is turning into *the Bob Barker of* /art criticism/, a genial television host who excitedly invites viewers to come on down to high culture.
101. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327071][Paul Revere]] ([[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/science/earth/19conv.html][2007/06/19/1855557]]) Time magazine once nicknamed him ''*the Paul Revere of* /the environmental movement/.''