Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats this year is Republican Charles Percy, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He won his third term in 1978 with his narrowest margin, 53% of the vote, and since then has moved somewhat rightward. The Democratic candidate, Representative Paul Simon, is better known for his trademark bow ties than his legislative input during five congressional terms, but he has waged an inspired campaign against his opponent. Percy's commercials show Reagan praising him and then trumpet that he is, therefore, "the Illinois advantage." Simon counters that Illinois ranks 49th out of 50 states in return of federal...
...will see bears little resemblance to the drab and sullen nation glimpsed by Richard Nixon in 1972 and Gerald Ford three years later. The giant billboards that once displayed Mao's quotations now bear gaudy advertisements for cameras, calculators and computers. The farming communes of the countryside, that ubiquitous trademark of the Maoist republic, have in effect been dismantled. Like the imposing façade of the main gate to Peking's Forbidden City, which is shrouded by scaffolding, all China is undergoing a radical facelift...
...Koch's trademark "How'm I doing?" springs from the mayor's lips like a reflex action, and the mayor attacks issues the same way Joan Rivers might attack a joke-"Can we talk...
Jackson fell asleep during two recent interviews. When he is groggy he tends to mix up his trademark parallel constructions. "Jails at their worst," he proclaimed in Ference, Ala., "are better than schools at their best." Hart last week mistakenly referred to his "19-year-old son"; John Hart is 18. The Senator (who seems to have a knack for muffing ages) made an odd joke last week about how old he feels. "When we started, I was 20," he told a little girl who asked if it was difficult running for President. "Now I feel like...
...Hinton Battle calls "moves that kill. It's the combinations that really distinguish him as an artist. Spin, stop, pull up leg, pull jacket open, turn, freeze. And the glide, where he steps forward while pushing back. Spinning three times and popping up on his toes. That's a trademark, and a move a lot of professionals wouldn't try. If you go up wrong, you can really hurt yourself...