Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other movements were constructed afterwards. The serene opening fills out into a vigorous and full-voiced movement. Mixing folk elements with the counterpoint studiously learned at the Leipzig Conservatory, Sullivan blends them with the brilliant orchestration technique that was praised in his earliest works and became such a trademark of the great Savoy operettas. The movement is all the more remarkable in view of the composer's age, twenty-four years at the time of its composition...
AMONG THE DIRECTORS whose films were shown, there was a surprising absence of the directors that have shaped American notions of the native Italian cinema, and an abundance of the cheaper blood-and-guts thrillers that are the trademark of Italy's most successful commercial cinema. De Sica--whose current illness elicited a message of good cheer from the gathering--was represented by a single film, Pasolini's Orestiad was presented, and Bertolucci's pseudopolitical Before the Revolution was dusted off, but Fellini received no recognition, and Visconti figured only as the object of indignation at news that the director...
...plump, genial figure with the trademark family nose. Don Nixon is a businessman of varying interests who can win friends and influence people not by dropping a name but by bearing...
...classic confrontation between two women wearing the same outfit-almost. The pint-size mirror image of Bianco Jagger was none other than Tatum O'Neal-wearing a long summer dress with pearls, a wide-brimmed hat and carrying Bianca's trademark, the walking stick. Bianca was about to leave for Italy, and Tatum, 9, was in London with her father Ryan to promote their movie hit Paper Moon. Bianca and Tatum, who have become rival models but the best of friends, turned up in their look-alike getups at the wedding reception for trendy Restaurateur Michael Chow (Mister...
McGuane's own trademark is the monstrous practical joke that is at the center of all his books. In The Sporting Club, a demonic hoax-artist contrived to destroy an exclusive hunt club in northern Michigan. The Bushwhacked Piano contained a lunatic scheme to cash in on antipesticide sentiment by selling tall towers stocked with insect-eating bats...