Word: lapeller
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...award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint pen or a company button. From the president on down, nobody is too proud to wear the nondescript gray company smock or a lapel pin with the corporate emblem...
Slower but more colorful. Red, green and yellow wash across the screen, twinkling from lapel pins, blaring from walls, or striped on crazy-cocked hats. But red, green and yellow soon appear as bland as black and white. Dressing like high-schoolers on clash day, the Rastas dazzle us in an untamed chorus of shimmery blues, violent purples, bold oranges and delicious browns. The colors and clothes take on their own life, choreographed and balanced like a palette...
...choose that piece? Can you explain why you are holding the instrument that way? Up, up! Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France and the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur pinned in his lapel, and tossed off the feat of playing 15 major works, from Mozart to Samuel Barber, during a sequence of eight concerts...
...three months it seemed that everyone in Sweden was wearing a lapel button. Some sported badges reading ENERGY FOR SWEDEN. Others wore yellow buttons with a red sunburst proclaiming...
...blissfully ignorant of the effort to get every American head counted, census messages will accompany tens of millions of Social Security checks and telephone and utility bills. They will be distributed on flyers by thousands of Boy Scouts; they will appear magically on restaurant place mats, street posters and lapel buttons...