Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their wait, De Kooning's admirers were generously rewarded. De Kooning's latest work (see color opposite) is a highly sophisticated summation of all the major developments of his previous styles. Still present are the whiplash strokes and splatter that were his trademark in the mid-1940s when the cantankerous immigrant Dutchman, onetime housepainter and WPA artist, was helping to establish abstract expressionism. In the early 1950s, he had devoted himself to a bloodthirsty series of darkly lurid women totems (among them, Marilyn Monroe). No sooner had his women gained acceptance than he switched again, to abstract landscapes...
Hardy Minority. Considering that the Beatles' trademark is offbeat irreverence, their effect on mature audiences is odd ly amusing. If the teeny-boppers made the Beatles plaster gods, many adults make them pop prophets, and tend to theorize solemnly, instead of seriously, about their significance. The Rev. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, says that "no entity hits as many sensitive people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times...
...Sandy is Sandy in whatever she does," says Playwright Muriel Resnik (Any Wednesday), but not surprisingly, herself-possession rubs some people the wrong way. Some actors dislike working with her, and one called her "a golden pain in the behind." They abhor her trademark mannerisms, the way she stutters and flutters her hands before uttering a line, as if about to goof it. Sandy is a constant hair pusher: in the first few minutes of Up the Down Stair case, she pushed three times. She is also an oral actress: a lip biter, tongue twitcher, mouth closer and chin wrinkler...
...shirts on the courts, but Lacoste was so uncomfortable in them that he had a British haberdasher make him cotton polo shirts with collars attached. When other tennis players adopted the shirt, La coste himself went into business making sports shirts and took the crocodile as his trademark. At first the shirts were almost all white and sales were restricted to France; since the war, how ever, Lacoste has branched out in col ors (20 now) and countries...
...rights, some people set the racial effort back 100 years." James is vice commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing based in Thailand, and already has 56 sweeps over North Viet Nam under his belt. Until it was adopted by Black Power activists, a black panther was his personal trademark...