Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beneath that dream which provides incentive for players and attraction for fans who drive for miles, there is a unique version of baseball played, with its own Toledo trademark. In the minor leagues, and especially in Toledo, for example, every night is a special night, says organist Jerry Dunford--one of only three in the International League--proudly wearing his blue Mud Hen T-shirt and green bermuda shorts. Coming up soon is a big night with a guaranteed large crowd--Downtown Toledo Night. And on Aug. 26, the San Diego Chicken returns for his own special evening. The promotions...
Timidity was hardly his trademark during eleven years as the head of San Francisco's Bank of America. Yet when A.W. (Alden Winship) Clausen, 58, moved into the president's office of his latest assignment last Wednesday, he sounded properly cautious. Said the new leader of the $40 billion World Bank: "I'm not a hip-shooter. I do my homework...
...public mind, glamour is the trademark of coke. The archetypal users are still rock stars, movie actors, pro athletes, jet-setters-people who might be assumed to rely on coke to meet the pressures of peak performance. It is true that some show-business figures have used cocaine to bolster their creative energies, and record producers have dispensed the drug to keep rockers recording all night. But many signs indicate that celebrities, like other people, use coke chiefly for recreation. Few dancers will snort coke before a performance; it throws off their precise mind-body coordination. Few football players toot...
Feinstein, a Democrat who supported Jimmy Carter to the bitter end, fears that federal cutbacks will hamper future efforts to improve city services, including a plan to refurbish San Francisco's dilapidated trademark, cable cars. Says she: "We have significantly less purchasing power than in past years, but so far the impact has only been on the surface...
Part way through her show, Horne sings her trademark song, Stormy Weather, softly and seductively, just as the audience expects to hear it. Then, near the very end, she announces that she is going to do a number that she had to "grow into." And once again she begins, "Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky." But this is a different Stormy Weather, sung from the gut and the soul, as if she had not only grown into it but out of it. The message is clear: it has taken...