Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film took Senior Writer Gerald Clarke from New York City to San Francisco for an advance look at the newest Star Wars movie, which was fresh out of the editing room. Ever since he saw the first episode in 1977, Clarke has been hooked on Lucas' special brand of magic. Says he: "Lucas seemed every bit as nervous about Jedi as he was about Star Wars. He is a compulsive worrier, a nonstop perfectionist. Maybe that is why his movies are so good." Clarke spent a day, along with Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell, interviewing Lucas and his wife...
...city's Democratic political Establishment came together in a new, sometimes unseemly vigor, determined to outmaneuver and outbellow the antimachine mayor. To paraphrase the 1955 words of the late alderman Paddy Bauler, it seemed that Chicago was not quite ready for reform yet-not Harold Washington's brand, for sure...
...Reinhart series (Crazy in Berlin, Reinhart in Love, Vital Parts and Reinhart's Women), published over a 23-year period, suggested that the author viewed postwar American dreams and the liberal imagination with a considered lack of seriousness. Little Big Man's Jack Crabb left a permanent brand on the founding myths of the Old West, and Neighbors contained a persuasive argument for living in the Yukon with an unlisted phone number and a mailbox stenciled THE LEPERS...
...FACTS Any kind, butdo get them in. They are what we look for-- a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading: and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline from: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top. "Illustrate", "Be specific"; etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there...
...barn-we-can-use" spirit to it that it can hardly be seen as a direct takeoff on the SNL prototype. And besides, this show has something going for it that SNL and Second City TV will never have, and something that the audiences who eat up this brand of humor will rarely experience. It's live. Anything can happen. And though the show is pretty clean on the whole, there are no censors to stop the occasional expletive that comes...