Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emerged wondrously on the convert's poor cloak as a sign of the authenticity of his vision, is the country's most honored shrine. Last month, for a huge mural on Mexican theatrical history, ex-Communist Artist Diego Rivera solemnly sketched the famed comedian Cantinflas in his trademark-uniform, a shabby coat, and then drew the Virgin on the coat. "Sacrilege!" protested Mexico's devout, while Rivera, ignoring the uproar, diligently filled in the outlines around the figure...
Timed Jokes. Moore's trademark is a crew haircut, a bow tie and a tireless grin. He opens most shows with a two-minute monologue he writes himself, follows it with a seven-minute skit featuring such regulars as Announcer Durward Kirby, Dancer Ray Malone and Singers Denise Lor and Ken Carson. Once every week, Moore brings on Naturalist Ivan Sanderson and his menagerie of chunga birds and false palm-civets. For his closing spot, he keeps on hand a stock of carefully timed jokes and comment (ranging from 20 seconds to 2½ minutes...
Swift but erratic in pace, and streaked with a social consciousness that was quickly to fade from his later novels, The Shipwrecked is written in the vibrato style that has become Greene's trademark. Where his more mature books, like The Heart of the Matter, treat human weakness in religious terms, The Shipwrecked tends to blame it on a decaying society. But in its unpretentious, entertaining way, it proves again that Graham Greene could hardly be dull if he tried...
...Times-Herald, but the Times-Herald has been slipping while the Star has been gaining. Its staff is as secure as the paper. Starmen like to boast that no one is ever fired or laid off "except for very grave reasons." The paper's front-page trademark feature for years was the fussy, inoffensive cartooning of the late Pulitzer-Prizewinning Clifford K. Berryman, and now it is the work of his son Jim. President Kauffmann sees no reason to change the Old Lady's successful ways. Says he: "Our dedication is to the voteless citizens of this city...
...lachrymose Little's trademark, the towel, was in his hands once more when he continued. "Whether we'll ever do that again this fall, I don't know. But it won't be easy...