Word: trademark
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EDDIE VEDDER writes song for Chicago Cubs, bringing trademark angst to angst-ridden team...
...Hall, Woody Allen recalls a farcical episode from his childhood where his mother drags him in to see a psychiatrist, convinced that her son is suffering from depression because he’s stopped doing his homework. A nebbishy but precocious nine year-old, his face dwarfed by the trademark horn-rimmed glasses, kid Woody is a charming avatar of his neurotic, anhedonic adult persona. “The universe is everything,” he says by means of justification. “And if it’s expanding, someday it will break apart—and that...
...arms extended, smiling, jumping, and laughing to my heart’s content. But there was one thing missing: my finishing move. I was inspired, as past readers will attest to, by WWE Wrestling and, that’s right, D Generation X. The squad’s trademark: one arm pointed up, the second arm pointed up, the two come down in an X, and you say it: SUCK IT! Oh, I let those Knights know: they were done. They were so done. My super-sweet diss move told the whole story. Principle 5: Have fun. Now, you?...
...This produces some jarring juxtapositions. Though he has built his career on dire warnings about the dangers of foreigners, Strache poses on his website as Che Guevara, donning the rebel's trademark beret and highlighting the last three letters of his name for anyone who misses the point. He praises Venezuela's left-wing demagogue Hugo Chavez and, in his campaign rap "Viva HC!", chants "Yes-We-Can" (in English), a reference to the campaign slogan of Barack Obama. That's an odd choice given that Strache is urging that some African immigrants be deported. "Austria! First!" he sings, backed...
Economic gloom is the trademark of most newspaper headlines as of late. Oil prices rise and fall, but bear bad omens either way. The housing market continues to deflate. And in the midst of it all, a number of Wall Street’s most venerable institutions are disintegrating. No matter the cost to American taxpayers, and no matter what the path of one’s economic thinking, it is clear that in the case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and, now, American International Group (AIG), the Federal Reserve did what it needed to do to protect everyday...