Word: imprimatur
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...Times weren't mature enough before for the establishment of the center," Ussia says. Until recently, the "melting pot" concept was foremost in the minds of Italian-Americans. "The idea was that you could put someone in the melting pot, wash him clean, and leave on him the imprimatur of America--but that didn't work. If I wanted a cup of espresso in the North End, I'd go whether they...
...even this "double-barreled presidential imprimatur," as Kissinger calls it, settled things. Both Rogers and Laird were having second thoughts. Nixon agreed to think it over for 24 hours...
...might run the motto for this entertaining and occasionally exasperating selection of poetic japes and fripperies. Novelist Kingsley Amis is not just a wickedly funny writer (read Lucky Jim several times); he is also a critic known for his strong and aggressively idiosyncratic opinions. With the venerable Oxford imprimatur on his side, Amis' poetastering now becomes what the next several generations of readers will have to swallow...
...effectively. Yes, it tells the story of the birth of a fictitious-but-powerful Hoffaesque labor boss. But one cannot help but wonder why such a story is necessary, except as a vehicle for the portrayal of random, gratuitous and organized violence--both management and union-instigated--with the imprimatur of Rocky legitimacy provided by Stallone, and sealed, in absurd enough fashion, with a fist...
...great Pierre Cardin, who has lent his designing ways, or at least his imprimatur, to just about every wearable, digestible, drinkable?and disposable ?product from chocolates to chaise longues, may be spreading his talents too thin. His August haute couture show in Lyons was a disappointment, and so was his new ready-to-wear collection. A notable exception: a classic, black, cowled, translucent sweater...