Word: imprints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford helped pioneer the ice- dancing form during the '60s. "Because they have a long history of ballroom dancing," says Button, "the British have been the most creative of ice dancers. It strikes a sensitive nerve in them." Soviets like Ludmilla Pakhomova and Aleksandr Gorshkov have also left their imprint on the form, but Torvill and Dean may be the first to reach the superstar status of such figure-skating soloists as Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming. "All new skaters will in some way look like Torvill and Dean," says Button. "They are wonderfully creative. Much of what they...
...party (there are more than two) successfully cheated and preserved even a fraction of its arsenal could achieve dominance. Even if all parties were actually to abide by an agreement to destroy strategic arms, all would, out of sheer prudence, be poised to resume production and deployment. Given that imprint of nuclear capabilities on our minds, to seek total nuclear disarmament is to seek a goal as risky as it is impractical...
...said that the flaw was discovered last Wednesday when the first upperclass ID cards were made. The problem came to light when a student tried to buy food at Lehman Hall and his card failed to make an imprint on the charge slip. Similar situations were reported by a number of other students that day, Granfield said...
...step, Tisch's concerns were drawing him closer to Paley. The former chairman had his own grievances against Wyman (see box). As CBS-TV's fortunes declined, Paley fumed at the fact that Wyman never consulted him. Said a CBS board source: "He believes he can still put his imprint on programming...
Some names have a special kind of imprint. The famous Miss Hogg, whose father cruelly named her Ima, had good reason to grow up scowling, but maybe she would have even if she had been named something sweet, like Charlotte. Anyone named James Oliver Buswell IV carries his parents' announcement of a certain view of the child's place in the world, but the effect of such a view probably differs considerably from one person to another. Someone with a name like Otto inevitably knows the burdens of an ethnic heritage, but so, presumably, do Madonna Ciccone and Fernando Valenzuela...