Word: hallmarked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's diction betrays all the self-conscious "translationese" of the turn of the century--even to the using the word "poesy" for "poetry" here and there. Faced with the need to make lines like "Can you not re-weld the link you tore asunder?" and "Am I to hallmark your complacency?" sound natural, director Holly Swartz takes the logical strategy of stylizing the actors' motion and delivery to match the tone. This works in spots, but it cannot keep things moving for two and a half hours. The weight of verbiage is simply too great...
...bugs do it,/ When a gentleman calls,/ Moths in your rugs do it,/ What's the use of moth balls?" For a subsequent show he wrote You Do Something to Me. Its echoing rhymes ("Do do that voodoo that you do so well") were to become a Porter hallmark. But they also betrayed a lifelong preference for facility over feeling...
Paralleling this apparent rise in interest in directly helping others both on and off campus has been a muting of political debate, a hallmark of the Harvard campus in the tumultous late...
Many of us grew up believing that the First Amendment was the foundation of our Bill of Rights and that if necessary we would fight and die for it. Sadly, the slanders, libels, bias and arrogance that have become the hallmark of much press and television coverage [Dec. 12] force Americans to question that commitment...
...policy--showed similar variations. The Democrats have treated all of these poll results as potential election year gold. Not surprisingly, the White House and the Republican Party are not at all happy about these data, but the leadership seems wary and ultimately optimistic, which has been a familiar Reagan hallmark anyway. A "wait-and-see" attitude has apparently been adopted by Reagan ad his advisors...