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...prop up the greenback. Noting Carter's propensity for listening first to one economic adviser, then to another, Washington wits began quoting, accurately or not, a scathing description of Franklin Roosevelt supposedly offered by Economist John Maynard Keynes: "The President is like a big, fluffy pillow. He bears the imprint of the last person...
...sentenced. His offence against the entertainment world: wilfully tampering with Peter Shaffer's masterpiece Equus in Lumet's film adaptation of what may be the play of the '70s. Reviewers have pilloried Lumet for abandoning the example of the record-shattering Broadway production, and instead applying his personal imprint to the movie version. But such bad-mouthing has an unfair ring; if the director had retained the heavy-handed horse symbolism of the stage version, the critics' court probably would have found Lumet guilty of emulation when his duty called for an imaginative adaptation. Acknowledging his obligation to present...
...debts with a firm arm twist. He also repays his own lous with interest. "I gave Russell a vote he wanted," recalls a Democratic liberal, "and I've been sipping from his cup ever since." As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee since 1966, Long has left an imprint on every piece of tax legislation passed by Congress...
...succession of teachers, from an initial incompetent or two ("to teach vibrato, Anker would shout 'Vibrate! Vibrate!' with never a clue given as to how to do it") to the inspired and inspiring tutelage of his beloved Georges Enesco ("I know that everything I do carries his imprint...
...lingering imprint of the past on the present is a theme which haunts David Storey's work. That imprint is evident in the way Storey borrows from his earlier creations in constructing Saville, which uses characters, situations and even dialogue from his play In Celebration. In the play, the three Shaw sons, all upwardly mobile, rejoin their working-class parents for a celebrations which founders on old family conflicts. Saville focuses on a strikingly similar family, exploring the genesis of those conflicts with sensitivity and style...