Word: trademark
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Last week, while enjoying my family's trademark Thanksgiving recipe of blessings and bickering, I looked around at the many older people in my large group of relations, and for the first time since Sept. 11, I wondered how they were really feeling. For the past several weeks much of our nation's concern has been focused on children--in my family, the attention tends to flow downward through the generations as if pulled by gravity...
...male assistant at a direct-sales company was promoted at twice her salary. "I couldn't believe God meant a woman's brain to bring 50[cents] on the dollar," she said. Famously generous, Ash rewarded her loyal sales force of 40,000 with minks, diamonds and her trademark pink Cadillacs...
...stark contrast with her previous work, Britney has none of Spears’ trademark overpoweringly catchy tunes. For all her critical failure, at least songs like 1999’s “Sometimes” and 2000’s “Lucky” possessed melodies liable to stick in one’s head for days. Instead, Britney is one long stretch of discouraging filler songs virtually devoid of melody. Where a workable melody does exist, as in “That’s Where You Take Me,” her producers smother...
...intimate friendship with so many people, Denny provided to us warmth and passion that was without end; he was in many ways a beacon of security. Those who cared for him may remember most vividly a certain hug from Denny, a trademark playful—almost mischievous—Denny smile aimed at them or nearly anything from his giant heart. Denny’s presence was so solid and large in our lives and in our hearts that he transcended our own individualism. He gave us a sense of being lucky to be part of the great...
DIED. CARRIE DONOVAN, 73, astute, flamboyant fashionista who won new fans by appearing--with her trademark oversize glasses and a dog, Magic--in recent TV ads for Old Navy; of pulmonary illness; in New York City. An early advocate of Donna Karan and an editor for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the New York Times, Donovan appreciated highbrow and lowbrow fashion. Her mentor Diana Vreeland once told her, "My dear, you've got the common touch...