Word: draculas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years later, the son and the widow of Bela Lugosi, star of the Dracula films, tried to take this doctrine a step further. They argued that this right was essentially property and therefore should pass on to heirs. In a California suit, they asked the courts to stop Universal Pictures from merchandising 70 Dracula products, ranging from jigsaw puzzles to belt buckles, and sought compensation based on the profits. Citing the First Amendment, Universal replied that the design of merchandise is a form of free speech that should not be restrained by anyone's heirs. Besides, said Universal...
Your tale of two troubled banks [May 12] does a great injustice to two remarkable men: Robert Abboud and Harvey Kapnick. To characterize their association as "Frankenstein's monster meeting Dracula" is inaccurate and unjust...
...profits nosedived $14 million in the first quarter. Late last year Abboud brought into the bank Harvey Kapnick, who had left the $499,000-a-year job as chairman of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm after a policy dispute with partners. It was like Frankenstein's monster meeting Dracula. Kapnick had an almost equally truculent style. The two were soon clashing, particularly about who was running banking operations...
...conductor's film credits include "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Towering Inferno." "The Fury," "Superman," "Jane Eyre," and "Dracula." Williams also has composed many classical works...