Word: imprints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PRIMAL IMPRINT OF DALLAS...
...crossed the mind -- the dank American underdream -- and in a small spasm of panic one frisked the faces in the crowd, looking for the wrong one. The sudden foreboding had a specific primal antecedent in time and place and noon sunshine: the nerves were reaching back exactly to the imprint made upon the American mind on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. And as one boards the Dukakis plane in San Francisco, a frisky German shepherd pokes around the luggage, sniffing for high explosives...
...When you find the [funerary] inscriptions you make a latex imprint of the stone, and then you have to hold it up to the light or to a mirror to read, because it is backwards," Frye says. "The scrolls can tell you a lot about the customs and history of an area...
...Purisima Church parish hall to the rafters to send a message to state officials that no one in the 350 ragtag subdivisions will rest until pipes are laid and water is flowing. Already, the El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization (EPISO), for which she works, has made an imprint. Its nagging pressure since 1983 has snared endorsements, a formal commitment of water and a pledge for help in getting a delivery system of mains. But the Government has yet to produce one drop, or funds to dig a single trench, and for many, life's basic necessity may still be years...
Originally commissioned by Simon & Schuster, the manuscript of Fit to Print was rejected there and at a number of other top publishing houses. Goulden, author of 15 other books, including the 1972 best seller The Superlawyers, ultimately turned to Lyle Stuart, an imprint with a reputation for taking chances. Stuart claims that Simon & Schuster backed away because the book is too hard hitting and would offend the proprietors of the country's most influential book review. Not true, says Simon & Schuster; Goulden's work simply fell below its standards...