Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though Faithfull moved quickly through the first act, spending little time to chat with the audience and even less with the piano player, she whipped through the second even faster, showing no trace of her first act elegance. She was the trademark rock and roll queen, roaring along with funky, bluesy cords. Her "Sister Morphine" and "Night Nurse" were filled with enough anxiety to send shivers down the spine...
...with his thoughts, he shakes his head in dismay, mutters and then scratches something on a much folded sheet of white paper. You might think he was a curmudgeonly equipment manager or an eccentric classics professor. But what gives his identity away, more than the familiar face or the trademark retro eyewear, is the manner in which the behemoths on the field cast periodic glances his way. They know that on that sheet of paper Joe Paterno may be writing down how the rest of their lives will turn...
Another You focuses on the emotional messes that ensnare Marshall and, before him, his father Miles. The latter engineered a menage a trois that warped the lives of two women. His drear tale is told through letters--printed in Beattie's trademark italics--that he wrote to his young mistress. The subject matter ranges from inviting her advice on buying a dog to callous admonitions: "You must promise not to write me again in haste, as it causes me great pain...
According to Joyce Brinton, director of the Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing, offers of equity instead of cash for licenses are only made to the University about five times each year...
Being overcautious in the use of military force is a Powell trademark. Powell also opposed intervening in the Bosnian crisis in its early days, when it would have been much less costly to resolve. The so-called "Powell Doctrine" calls for military intervention only when easy, painless success is all but guaranteed...