Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anticapitalists continue to make capital out of Ping Pong. Preceding the arrival of the Chinese team in the U.S. will be a whole line of Chinese table tennis equipment with the beguiling brand name Double Happiness. The equipment will be marketed by two Los Angeles firms and will boast the endorsement of the Chinese team, with the blessing of Chairman Mao himself...
WHEN he addressed the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Miami last June, George Meany spoke as a plumber who is no longer underestimated. For many years, his brand of unionism has been rather flippantly declared an anachronism?much too parochial and materialistic for a society with a strong streak of idealism. While other labor leaders graduated to a more sophisticated statesmanship, Meany stayed the same, still speaking in the gruff accents of his Bronx boyhood, still looking like the traditional portly boss with heavy lids drooping threateningly over steel-gray eyes. His ever-present cigar only served to complete the unflattering...
...Washington Post with Pravda [Aug. 9], George Jessel has once again exposed his ignorance. Jessel seems to equate the right of questioning the American Government and its military with anti-Americanism. He has a right to voice his opinions. But to dress up and play soldier and to brand and label is uncalled for. Edwin Newman handled the situation with tact, and rather than let Mr. Jessel pretend to march, he took away his toy drum...
...mashing the cops' skulls with their own handcuffs. He then sets off on a ghetto version of the traditional Wild West chase. He fights and fornicates, leaving behind a trail of bodies in various stages of disrepair. When cornered by two cops, Sweetback responds with his own brand of sky-high black consciousness: he kills them. After he escapes to Mexico, the screen fills with a printed warning: WATCH...
...this unique American art form as B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf, Muddy is riding the crest of a surprisingly long-lived blues revival. Of them all, he remains the purest, the most loyal to where he has been and what it has cost him. Muddy's brand of Delta blues is supposed to follow the traditional twelve-bar structure, but as often as not uses eleven or 13 bars. Despite its metric uncertainty, it is a two-beat, shuffling kind of music that seems to have been drilled into the central nervous systems of Muddy...