Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer, as director and mogul, he has more than enough work to keep him happy. Two new comic adventures bear the "Steven Spielberg Presents" imprimatur. The Goonies, directed by Richard Donner from a Spielberg story, earned a healthy $41.4 million in its first 24 days' release; Back to the Future, a spiffy time-machine comedy from Director-Writer Bob Zemeckis, opened last week to positive reviews and audience acclaim. But that is just for openers. Next week E.T. will beam back down to 1,500 theaters for a saturation rerelease. At Amblin Entertainment, Spielberg's studio-within-a- studio...
...economic draft on his desk, calling the Treasury Department's tax-reform plan "the best proposal for changing the tax system that has ever occurred within my life-tune." Yet he stopped well short of endorsing it, while making clear that the deficit-reduction plan had his full imprimatur...
...Queen can then bestow her imprimatur...
...various declarations ended up reading as if they had been written by a committee, it was because they had been. The seven leaders and their aides labored endlessly, fine-tuning each clause so that, in the end, they could all go home proclaiming that their policies had won the imprimatur of the world's most exclusive club...
...Putnam's imprimatur is clearly evident in the makeup of the company--four of the original 10 partners came from Putnam Management, including Cabot, who got his seven year apprenticeship there after graduating from the Business School 1959. He then left Putnam for a seven year stint at the Wellington Management Company as senior investment officer and managing director...