Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Douglas, a woman who said she represented Trademark Protective Services in Los Angeles told Douglas over the phone that 20th Century Fox--producer of the weekly TV series The Simpsons--would pursue legal action if another shirt is sold...
...Trademark Protective Services company could not be reached for comment, but Andrew Starr '91, a Dunster resident on leave this semester, said last night he was the one who notified 20th Century Fox and sent them one of the shirts...
That nervy economy of means is the trademark of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who assumes -- correctly, to judge from box-office receipts -- that theatergoing adults take delight in hearing a catchy tune repeated as often as Top 40 songs on teenybopper radio stations. In lesser hands (for that matter, in his own earlier shows), this repetition can suggest paucity of imagination or a kind of melodic stinginess. But in Aspects of Love, the London hit that opens on Broadway this week, the technique works: the tunes bear repeating, and the repetition binds a diffuse story of mostly misguided romance. The impact...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...
Critics have attacked Williams for attempting to buy the governorship with simplistic solutions. "I don't think we can ride horseback into the space age," said G.O.P. rival Luce. But Williams dismisses such criticism with his trademark horse laugh and zany grin. The larger question is whether his cowboy cachet can survive in the general election. "He hasn't withstood the fire of a long campaign and journalistic scrutiny," points out Richard Murray, a University of Houston political scientist. "Without the cash, he'd be a terrible fourth." Whatever way the vote goes, Williams appears ready to accept...