Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philip LaZebnik's latest offering. American in Purgatory is basically warmed over Mintz; shorter and more tightly-knit than its predecessor, it features many of the same actors bandying about similar jokes and singing similar songs within the now almost predictable absurdist framework that has become a LaZebnik trademark. Somehow it all seemed a lot fresher the first time around...
Perhaps this heel will be cured by next year, but the cry of next year has become the trademark of the Harvard basketball program, one which could use a new place to play, a new schedule and a new outlook. And for openers, how about a little chit-chat between the coach and the players. Now that would really...
Xerox, it must be noted at the outset, is a trademark of the Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn. The word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after...
...have taken it for the real thing. Along with eye-grabbing covers-a grisly painting of John Kennedy at the instant of his assassination; a shot of a grinning skin-mag publisher lying nude under a heap of life-size plastic porn dolls-New Times's most familiar trademark is an addiction to sensational feature stories...
...Shea, 68, who testified that one of the women in the robbery pointed a gun at him and said, "The first person who puts up his head, I'll blow his motherf?ing head off." Then in the crossexamination, Bailey flashed a bit of the style that is his trademark. He asked the guard who it was who had threatened...