Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...totalitarian regime to Woody Allen's scientist doctors cloning a man from his nose. But most authors and directors and sociologists and philosophers start from the premise that the society thus transformed was ready for progress to begin with. Dr. Seymour Gray, an American physician appointed to head a brand-new hospital in Saudi Arabia, had the opportunity to see how much more wrenching such advancement can be when a country moves from a primitive nomadic culture to a modern technological state in only a few decades...
King throws brand names around as liberally as if he were collecting commissions from companies. But in fact his incessant litany of commercials stems from the same impulse that dares Stephen Spielberg to fill his movies with Reese's Pieces and beer jingles. The device embeds the book or the movie firmly into the consciousness of its audience; the labels make everything familiar, and we placidly swallow it as the real thing...
Well, given the competition, probably not, but it is safe to say that her outrageous, bitchy brand of humor has earned her the title of the funniest woman in the country. When she is host of the Tonight show, which she now is more than anyone else except Johnny Carson, she sometimes outdraws the man himself in the ratings. She is one of the few stars who can still pack houses in a depressed Las Vegas; her twelve-city tour in February was an instant sellout; and last week Geffen Records released her first album in years, What Becomes...
...Florida's Daytona Beach, suntanned young people crowd around carnival-type booths, where some 20 different manufacturers are handing out literature and free samples. Overhead, airplanes trail banners that read HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FORD LATELY? and WELCOME TO MILLER TIME. Below, a catamaran emblazoned with the Schlitz brand name cruises by, followed by a fleet of sailboards that extol SALEM SPIRIT. At one of the 380 or so hotels that line the 23 miles of beach, John Bradley, 22, a recent Cornell graduate, is conducting poolside tug-of-war and trivia contests sponsored by Camel cigarettes while half...
...features a 30-day jail sentence for failing to pay about $500 of taxes and a temporary disbarment. Oddly enough, many of the people who stress Washington's tax evasion are the same ones who stood silently for decades, blithely watching the infamous Chicago political machine commit every conceivable brand of corruption and electoral fraud. Washington's 30 days should definitely be remembered by voters--they are an ugly blotch on his record--but the sudden "civic concern" of his otherwise quiet attackers should be seen as nothing more than fakery...