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  • The U.S. Trademark Office noted at the time that the phrase Beauty and the Beast couldn't be trademarked, as it "represents a well-known fairy tale that is in the public domain."

    Two Beauty and the Beast Pilots: Which One Gets to Keep the Title? 2012

  • According to entertainment lawyer Aaron Moss, when Disney previously sought to register a trademark for the title Beauty and the Beast, it wound up with Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

    Two Beauty and the Beast Pilots: Which One Gets to Keep the Title? 2012

  • In this case, both sides can lay claim to the title Beauty and the Beast.

    Two Beauty and the Beast Pilots: Which One Gets to Keep the Title? 2012

  • What you see in American Beauty is the bleakness of the Freudian vision.

    Rebels Without a Cause 2005

  • What you see in American Beauty is the bleakness of the Freudian vision.

    Rebels Without a Cause 2005

  • What you see in American Beauty is the bleakness of the Freudian vision.

    Rebels Without a Cause 2005

  • OK, I really wanted to blog the title Beauty and the Geek somewhere in here, but really, most folks are simply so tired from their jobs and trying to have some semblance of a family life in their few hours away from work and driving children from soccer game to soccer game, that they are just too busy and stressed out to deal with problems in our government.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • The downside is she kind of looks like a slightly more attractive version of the chick that is working at Smiley Burger in American Beauty, which is really not a good thing.

    drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2005

  • What we _know for certain_, in this strange imbroglio, is that what we call Beauty is a complex of two mysteries, the mystery of our own "I am I" and the mystery of the "objective something" which this "I am I" confronts.

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Instead therefore of asking: Why is there a preference for what we call Beauty? we should have to ask: why has perception, feeling, logic, imagination, come to be just what it is?

    The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics Vernon Lee 1895

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