Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russ Meyer, the Barnum of the skin-flicks,has recently been grinding out his sexploitation films under the imprimatur of major studios. He now follows the thunderous vulgarity of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with a tepid adaptation of Irving Wallace's best-seller about an obscenity bust, The Seven Minutes...
...have relations with Red China," Mississippi Democrat James O. Eastland declared in Washington last week, "let us do so with our eyes open." The conservative Senator's personal contribution to the effort seemed more calculated to make eyes pop. A 46-page study published under the imprimatur of Eastland's Senate Internal Security subcommittee last week blames Mao Tse-tung and his comrades for the deaths of anywhere from 34,300,000 to 63,784,000 Chinese since Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists began fighting Mao Tse-tung's Communists...
...billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation of a new, NASA-type National Cancer Authority outside the NIH to oversee the search for a cure. Senator Edward Kennedy, who succeeded Texas' Ralph Yarborough as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on health, put his own imprimatur on the commission's proposal and submitted the recommendations as legislation...
...give the project a sound revolutionary imprimatur, as well as a psychological lift, student leaders traveled to Saigon and Hanoi to hammer out joint peace proposals with local student groups. Davis visited the Hanoi delegation in Paris again; when he returned, a conference of some 2,000 students was held in Ann Arbor, Mich., where the scenario for Mayday was approved...
Without violating the text, which has been rendered into fluently idiomatic English by Christopher Hampton, the sure and subtle inflection of Patrick Garland's direction makes Ibsen appear as the godfather of Women's Lib. If it counts as an imprimatur, Betty Friedan was in the opening-night audience. Since Ibsen is a seductively powerful dramatist and the evening's didactic thrust is something like "Go thou and do likewise," it is important to examine Ibsen's intent and Nora's behavior...