Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Constantino's saintly connections so impressed the townfolk of Monte Alto, 250 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, that they gave him land for a big food-processing plant. In a carnival of publicity, Constantino turned out canned peas, oatmeal and other foods -plastering each container with his Izildinha trademark and picture...
...grand design-a chain of mutual assistance pacts between France and all the countries that ringed Germany. As French Premier and later as Foreign Minister, Laval haggled his way through the capitals of Europe. Wearing his famous white tie and eternally rumpled blue suit as a trademark, he was a grotesque but effective figure, despite a deplorable tendency to try to cap anyone else's punch line. (When he praised the Pope to Stalin and the latter sneered, "Yes, but how many divisions has he got?", Laval snapped back: "I'm not asking you to make a treaty...
...Died. Edgar Montillion Woolley, 74, onetime Yale drama professor whose magnificent white beard ("the historic trademark of genius") and outrageously imperial mien made him the perfect Man Who Came to Dinner, a role he first played on Broadway in 1939, continued on stage, screen, TV and in private for the rest of his life; of kidney and heart ailments; in Albany...
...Negro idiom: it seemed embarrassingly clear that no white man could ever sing the songs his way. Today, though Charles still sings the same "race music," there is no modern singer who has not learned something from him. His touches turn up in other singers' styles; his trademark phrases, such as "What'd I say" and "Don't you know now" and "That's all right," poke out from everybody's rhythm choruses like passwords to success. But the man himself remains apart. And in nearly everything he sings, clamped onto...
...wrote the screenplays, composed the music, directed the actors, and produced the film, which is almost totally free from the stigma of the studio. His settings are real houses, forests, and-a Ray trademark-marshy riverbanks; and his people are as real as their surroundings...