Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credits bill Colonel Tom Parker as technical adviser, a title that does not do him justice. The colonel has been by Presley's side since the beginning, a combination Machiavelli and mother hen without whose approval nothing goes out under the Presley imprimatur. While the colonel does not actually appear in Elvis on Tour, his influence is strongly felt. Thus, although it is supposed to be a documentary, most of the movie's scenes seem as spontaneous as the Sadlers Wells Ballet. The concert footage is sweaty and lifeless, the music a combination of housebroken rock and soul...
...Chinese also need Japanese technology to help modernize their economy. Then there is the age factor: now that Mao is pushing 79, Chou, who is 74, could be hurrying to complete Peking's return to outward-looking diplomacy while the Chairman is still around to give it his imprimatur...
...Aristion was a master artisan, known from old writing to have lived on the Aegean island of Paros about the third quarter of the 6th century B.C. Until the new dig, it had been believed that the only remnants of his work were four statueless marble bases bearing his imprimatur. Now that Mastrokostas has been able to study Aristion's style, he believes he may be able to identify other works of his among the many still unidentified masterpieces of ancient Greece...
...every physician to treat those who come to him for help. Is it also his responsibility to turn in those patients who are sought by law-enforcement authorities? The question is more than academic. At the FBI's request, two medical journals published under American Medical Association imprimatur have printed "wanted" notices soliciting doctors' help in catching a suspect. This odd procedure raises serious ethical questions about the physician's responsibility to his patient...
Forest Hills plans his final imprimatur...