Word: trademark
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...into a $3.5 billion annual profit three years later. Then he staged a triumphant return to New York City, when Bank One merged with JPMorgan Chase last year. In 2006 Dimon will become the merged firm's CEO, but he has already begun reshaping the institution in the trademark no-nonsense style he developed while at Citigroup. He has made key personnel changes in the investment-banking and bond areas, brought the bank's IT management in-house and initiated a risk-management review, while instilling his relentless bottom-line ethic throughout the business. It may take some time...
...from a long day of interviews and autographing to promote his latest movie, Fat Albert, the normally effervescent, over-the-top young comedian who played such indelible Nickelodeon roles as Super Dude, Pierre Escargot and the bumbling employee of Good Burger, just does not have the energy for his trademark Bill Cosby impressions...
...plot’s trademark characteristic is its incongruity; the movie has no sense of proportion. All three main characters keep secrets, and the series of swift and dramatic revelations at the end of Mei and Jin’s journey pushes the bounds of belief. Their exaggeration makes the film utterly unbelievable, but admittedly fun to watch, especially with Yimou’s adept directorial flourishes. In one memorable example, a summer day surreally turns into a winter snowstorm over the span of a few hours...
...stage to the screen. Despite their clearly egregious ways, Nichols’ camera shoots his handsome couples with tremendous affection. His tight close-ups put you right in the moment so that you can almost feel the heat emanating from the skin of their passion-filled bodies. His trademark zoom shots, while they still precisely cut through space, now move with the grace of an aged master. Like a Cartier-Bresson photograph, they reveal “the decisive moment” during which the emotions that threaten to sweep away the characters instantaneously come together...
...supervillain, single-mindedly devoted to taking over the world; a recluse, never appearing in public without his trademark metal mask; a mad genius, never sleeping so that he can work in his lab all day and night: these are the images maintained by MF Doom. While every aspect of the comic book persona may not be true to life, the description of his work ethic is: MM..Food? is his ninth (ninth!) LP in the last two years, all released under various aliases. Even more impressive than the quantity has been the quality, as all of these have been anywhere...