Word: branded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading heavyweights gave convincing displays of punching power in their second-round knock outs last night, while Boston fight fans displayed their own brand of power...
Aided by widespread publicity, including the movie Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Jane Howard's bestseller, Please Touch, the movement is spreading explosively. Two years ago, when California's Esalen Institute first sought to export its own brand of the new gospel east, 90 curious New Yorkers showed up for a five-day encounter group in Manhattan. A similar event last year drew 850; last April, 6,000. Since January 1969, when Donald Clark counted 37 "growth centers"-established sites for the development of human or group potentials-the census has risen past...
Madison Avenue is also borrowing from that classic American art form, the western. The Gary Cooper of the genre is Heinz ketchup, which single-handed confronts a gang of Brand X baddies on the main street of a lonely cowtown. One of the baddies steps forward, caps come off, bottles upturn; the Brand X bottle soon lies empty in the dust. As the half-full Heinz bottle swaggers off, a sourdough voice brags: "Heinz, the slowest ketchup in the West -East, North and South...
...PRESIDENT was not terribly visible over the summer, but he has made up for it during the last few weeks of the election campaign. The campaign was not only dirty and disgusting-but also revealed an Administration bent on practicing a noisy, unsubtle and, of course, insane brand of right-wing politics...
...1960s, however, the idea began to take firm hold. Part of this was due to Charles de Gaulle's fiery brand of French nationalism, which he recommended to Quebeckers during a memorable visit in 1967. Partly it was due to nationalistic and ethnic stirrings being felt round the world...