Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emerge as hundreds of liquid moans and cataclysmic rhythms on a night made for jazz. The Mama Kin Playhouse (owned by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, of all people) presented Ravi Coltrane. As the son of John Coltrane, the legendary jazz musician, Ravi is making the saxophone a treasured trademark of the Coltrane family and also creating his own style. Dapper suits and casual jeans, cocktail dresses and T-shirts all stepped into the dim club with a quiet sophistication...
...fully engage. If computer animation was begging for something with epic, imperialistic proportions, where the miracle of 3-D animation could be unleashed onto big battle and mob scenes, it got it. Plotwise however, Antz is virtually indistinguishable from the recent Mulan and earlier Aladdin. Having Woody Allen's trademark quips and Sylvester Stallone's kindhearted brawn in place of accustomedmediocre musical numbers makes Antzdifferent from its Disney predecessors, but notdifferent enough...
...encouraging showcase of the CD is the A side "Sunny." In true Morrissey style the song takes its time cadencing, but once the beat begins the song is infectious. The trademark maudlin Morrissey irony is apparent from the start--the band strikes up in the most driving, happy manner possible, as Morrissey sings of heroine addiction and "the needle pressed on to tight skin" (The song is rumored to be about Jake Walters, Morrissey friend and former personal assistant). Consuming depression has never had such a foot-tapping beat. It's a guilty pleasure. "Sunny" is an excellent song, most...
After the coin-toss--the only thing Harvard wonSaturday--captain Brendan Bibro came toward thesideline. The trademark of last year's team wasthat everyone would sprint onto the field,screaming and pounding Bibro, even when he was oncrutches. This year, it was a casual saunter, aroutine huddle, and an uninspired cheer...
While most of the residents are dressed summer casual, their bare legs sticking to plastic chairs assembled on the center's basketball court, Williams is wearing a gray suit, a gray shirt and his trademark bow tie (also gray, though with a few zany paisley figures). "Welcome to forum alfresco," he quips in a typical bit of Ivy League drollery. No one laughs. But Williams is being himself, and the crowd seems to appreciate it. Somehow, in fact, this Yale-talking geek has inspired a city desperate for inspiration...