Word: imprints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each of its 40 short chapters contains a quiet surprise or nuance that is all the more effective be cause it springs from the most familiar sources. Author Wolitzer, a Long Island housewife and mother of two, practices realism at its best. Her novel is not a direct imprint of close personal experience. It is an imaginative act that contemplates the world without the lachrymose bitterness that made an anxious Hemingway demean life by calling death an old whore...
Potential Split. Communio is loosely allied with journals in Germany, Italy and Yugoslavia, two of which bear the same name. Like them, it bears the theological imprint of a reclusive Swiss theologian, Father Hans Urs von Balthasar, who is the intellectual leader of the more moderate elements in the European wing of the counterreformation...
DIRECTOR William has not left a strong personal imprint on the production; for the most part it plays itself in a straightforward manner, running two and a half hours. But he has chosen to underline the thematic importance of the sea. Not only do the waves move, but he also gives us a soundtrack of their swashing, and even an actual ocean mist. When Viola is washed up on the Illyrian shore, she turns and takes a long look at the ocean before telling the Captain, "Lead me on." At the very end, while the Clown sings the stanzas...
...back to 19th century wrecking of machines by Luddites. In the composing room of the New York Daily News one morning last week, Bertram A. Powers, president of Typographical Union No. 6, seized a thin magnesium plate and ceremoniously crumpled it. The plate was the first to bear the imprint of type set on Daily News automated equipment-photo-composing machines that translate strips of perforated tape (produced by special typewriters) into film negatives of newspaper pages. For his symbolic and melodramatic act, Powers was arrested and then quickly released on his own recognizance. The stage...
...this way: I think God invented the dodo bird so when we get up there we could tell him, 'Don't you ever make mistakes?' And he'd say, 'Sure, look.' I'd like to make my imprint. My dodo bird. A mistake, mine...