Word: brand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italian-born composer, 75, has long purveyed a brand of derivative, pseudoromantic opera, such as The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street, which both somehow won Pulitzer Prizes in the '50s and still cling to life on the edges of repertory. Although it has been years since Menotti has had a hit, his name still means opera to those for whom annual Christmas telecasts of the treacly Amahl and the Night Visitors were a cultural high point. Goya, however, is a new low: a brazen melange of elements from Traviata and Puccini's La Rondine, served up with music...
Known to its citizens as the "land of the Eagle," Albania is notable on two dubious counts: it is Europe's poorest nation and a relic of the Stalinist era. For four decades, doctrinaire Dictator Enver Hoxha ruled the country with a monomaniacal determination and a fanatical brand of xenophobia. He proclaimed Albania to be the only true Marxist-Leninist state and pursued a program of "national self-reliance" that cut off virtually all ties with East and West. The country has no diplomatic relations with either the Soviet Union or the United States...
...KING is commercial, it is because he is so accurately American. He scares people because he knows the truth about what scares them, knows what we are. He also knows what he is. This, from a piece titled, ironically, "On Becoming a Brand Name...
...company intends to bring back its product differentiation, so that Chevrolet will once again be perceived as the bargain-price brand, Pontiac the high-powered car, Buick and Oldsmobile the posher models and Cadillac the top of the line. The new stylings may provide added motivation for GM's network of 9,720 car dealers, many of whom have been clamoring for stronger GM brand identities. Observes Joseph Cappy, president of rival American Motors: "That Chevrolet dealer network is so strong they can sell anything. You give them a good product, and they'll just knock the doors...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, David Brand, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...