Word: logo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many years the logo of the Saturday Review was a mythical bird: the phoenix, rising reborn from its own ashes. The symbolism remained apt even after the logo was dropped in 1977. During much of its 58-year life span, the "magazine of ideas," as it called itself, has lost money; since 1971 it has been sold or refinanced five times. SR has been by turns a weekly, a biweekly, a monthly; at one point it was split into four separate magazines. Over the years it shifted focus from books to popular culture to politics and science and then...
...gloves." Smith has hung a sign on his office wall that reads: SHOW ME A GOOD LOSER AND I'LL SHOW YOU A LOSER. Miller Chairman John A. Murphy has been known to take satisfaction out of wiping his feet on an office rug bearing the familiar eagle logo of Anheuser-Busch. Over at Anheuser-Busch, Chairman August Busch III has reportedly disparaged Miller's parent company, Philip Morris Inc. of New York City, by making derogatory remarks about "tobacco people" and lecturing his executives on the effects of smoking...
...Gamble candles so that illiterate workers could distinguish them. In time the cross became a star. Then a dozen more stars were added to signify the original 13 colonies, as well as a quarter moon with a human face, a popular image of the time. By 1882 the unusual logo had become Procter & Gamble's trademark...
...moon symbol appears on everything the mighty marketeer (1981 sales: $11.4 billion) makes, including Crest toothpaste, Jif peanut butter and a host of soap and detergent products. Lately, however, it has become a major corporate problem because of a virulent whispering campaign alleging that the logo is satanic and that Procter & Gamble is somehow involved in the worship of the devil. The talk first surfaced in January 1980, and reappeared two years later when the firm began getting thousands of phone calls about stories that company officials had confessed on the Phil Donahue and Merv Griffin television shows that Procter...
Undeterred by the show of force, Solidarity members and supporters put up a huge poster of their leader, Lech Walesa, who remains interned. When banners bearing the suspended union's familiar SOLIDARNOSC logo were unfurled, the crowd's cheers were interrupted by the shrill sound of police loudspeakers issuing orders to disperse. Then the militiamen charged, beating demonstrators and bystanders indiscriminately. When the protesters responded with shouts of "Gestapo!" the militia began firing flares and tear-gas canisters into the crowd. High-powered water cannons drove some demonstrators into side streets. Others, less fortunate, were knocked down...