Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVE TO BE an English major to enjoy this book. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry, collected parodies of poetry by Chaucer to E.B. White, is structured to parallel the famed Norton Anthology. Covering some 700 years of verse, the Brand-X Anthology, edited by William Zaranka, makes for both dignified sport and amusing diversions...
...funky rendition of "Sweet Transvestite" from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." And a song dedicated one night to his girlfriend might be prefaced the next by "a song for the one I used to love." Meyreles always combined uniques versions of recognizable songs or catchy originals with a fresh brand of unpredictable theatrics. And--just as dependably--he cultivated smiling faces...
...amount to as little as a few cents a month, the data banks are using computer technology and telephone lines to provide household subscribers with the opportunity to summon up-to-the-minute information on everything from the action on Wall Street to the best shopping bargains available from brand-name discount houses around the country...
...squashed shipment of watches represents no more than a fraction of the counterfeit goods that move in international trade every day. Counterfeits are a problem for such other well-known brand-name products as Levi Strauss blue jeans, Puma running shoes, and Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky. Cartier's hope is that the steamroller tactics will help encourage governments around the world to take whatever steps are necessary to crush the counterfeiters...
...restore a sense of community that might "re-civilize" that Houses, the University must act. One idea occasionally put forth is to institute a random housing lottery. This step would break up the large cliques that inevitably congregate in individual Houses and that promote the most invidious brand of intolerance--that sanctioned by a majority. Either way, Bok and the masters face a hard choice in resolving the dichotomy between community and individuality. Recent strains in the Houses may in part be symptoms of this unresolved tension...