Word: trademarking
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...itself and the camera, vamping behind Rip Van Winkle beards, trench coats and sunglasses. The group's slyly salacious videos about glossy cars and sassy girls were always delivered with a knowing wink. One clip ends with the band standing on the edge of a dusty desert, striking its trademark truckin' pose before fading like a mirage on an overheated highway...
Frank Sinatra collapsed on a Richmond, Virginia, stage while performing his trademark My Way. Complaining of the heat, the singer fell to the floor "like a sack of stones," recalled a concert-goer. He is recovering in California...
Rare performers, like Bogosian, combine many of these charms. His Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead is part sketch, evoking several varieties of his trademark sociopath, and part musing in his own voice about the price of fame and about how the world seems to be going to hell just when he is getting rich enough to enjoy it. His command of language, including the rhythms of scatology and epithet, sometimes soars to the level of David Mamet, and his mutations are always convincing without any need for props or disguises...
With that, Margo closed her eyes, and her brother Peter Timmins started the trademark rim shot that opens the song. "Sun comes up, it's Tuesday morning," Margo purred into the mike, eyes closed and one hand hanging loosely at her side. "Hits me straight in the eye, guess you forgot to close the blinds last night...
...Chairman; Joseph A. Ripp, Treasurer; Harry M. Johnston, Secretary. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y., and at additional mailing offices. (c) 1994 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. TIME and the Red Border Design are protected through trademark registration in the United States and in the foreign countries where TIME magazine circulates. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to TIME, P.O. Box 30601, Tampa, Fla. + 33630-0601. For subscription queries, call Customer Service at 1-800-843-TIME...