Word: imprint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some artists so possess their landscape that the real place, visited for the first time, can look like a replica of their work. France is full of examples-the banks of the Seine seen as a Monet, the imprint of Cézanne on the red earth and twisted roots of the Midi, the Matisses latent in every curlicued balcony in Nice. In the same way, Cornwall is Ben Nicholson's territory. Insistently, and often without depicting landscape at all, his paintings have altered several generations of responses to that green ledge of land, shelved with granite and glittering...
...group and will mean "millions of dollars." Until then HA! is supported handsomely by fat merchandising contracts with such outfits as Fisher-Price Toys and Hallmark Cards, Inc. Muppet faces appear on coffee mugs, T shirts, yo-yos, playing cards, pillowcases and anything else that will take an imprint. Henson is good at big money deals and smart enough not to boast about them. "It's important to me that the audience doesn't think of us in terms of figures," he says. "I don't want people looking at the Muppets and thinking, 'How much are they worth...
...Ustinov, not to mention generations of statesmen, artists and thinkers, somehow emerged with originality unchecked. There is scarcely a field of public endeavor in the English-speaking world that does not bear traces of the public school imprint. Fighting oppressions as youths may have strengthened the graduates for the larger trials provided by life. Above all, the schools seem to have given their charges a sense of belonging together, a memory of childhood that they shared with their peers and never forgot. - Paul Gray
...stilettos for their fellow authors. Some of the most famed and envied than-atologists are, of course, very rich: Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert Ludlum, Fred Dannay (a.k.a. Ellery Queen) and Ellin, among others. Britain's artful Desmond Bagley, who has yet to make much of an imprint on the U.S. audience, still clears $250,000 a year...
Five hundred years later, the press is still in the classics business; Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Book I, for example, is a recent offering. But the Oxford imprint now spans all of human knowledge, from the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary (floccinaucinihilipilification, the act of estimating as worthless) to tomes as obscure as Zoologist Arthur Young's Anatomy of the Nervous System of Octopus Vulgaris, which sells 15 copies a year. The largest academic press in the world, Oxford has 3,000 staffers working in Britain and in 23 overseas branches from New York to Nigeria...