Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also something of a joke, of course. Some Quant creations consisted of less material than a Victorian hanky and-at eleven inches above the knee-barely covered the area once reserved for underwear. On the way up from the pert Chelsea shopgirl look, the ultrashort skirt was given the imprimatur of couture by Parisian Designer André Courrèges in the middle '60s. The mini's bon voyage across the Atlantic was largely the work of Enfant Terrible Rudi Gernreich, who was not only the first U.S. designer to bare the thigh, but also earned dubious fame...
...even more difficult to entries the convention's impact. The official Republican nominee will not be selected until the September primary Lakian, confident of victory, has said he will drop out of the race if he does not get his party's imprimatur. Aides like to point out that every successful Republican nominee in the past few decades has had his convention's support Robinson has said he will light to the end; his staffers contend that the convention is too early in the race to make a difference...
...make over his ill-fated 1978 bid is that he will try harder to get elected--he has not said he would change any of his old stances if elected. O'Neill, on the other hand, has put forth substantive proposals; his tax reform plan,for example has the imprimatur of several reputed economists...
Would the AWACS sale change such attitudes? Tawajiri held out no hope that it would. Said he: "The U.S. hasn't sent us one single rifle without the imprimatur of Israel on it." That statement, of course, is ludicrous. Yet it is important evidence that Saudis share the Arab view about the American failure to rein in its Israeli ally, even when Israel bombs civilians in Beirut and a nuclear reactor in Iraq...
...judge? When does it stop?" Joel Segal, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Ted Bates ad agency, was aroused enough to fault giant P & G for giving "credence and support to a bunch of radicals in Mississippi. They're putting their imprimatur on the work of people trying to impose their views on the rest of us." Ironically, even P & G might be criticized for putting sex on the air, since its high moral standards seem to go into effect only after sundown, during the prime-time hours. P & G owns and sponsors no fewer than...