Word: letterhead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Festival and smiled. "We're here tonight," Kevin Smith said, "and lightning has not struck the building. So I guess it's O.K. with the Lord." Smith, 29, had endured a rough six months, ever since the Catholic League, a lay group with 350,000 members and an intimidating letterhead, had pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop Dogma, Smith's rambunctious comedy about God, faith and a monster made of poop. Smith was able to make his movie freely, but if the protesters had had their way, he couldn't show it. To twist...
...wrote a private letter to Governor A. Paul Cellucci, expressing his concerns that she might have an anti-Catholic bias. Law was concerned because during her time as Harvard's General Counsel, Marshall reprimanded a Catholic professor at the law school for expressing anti-abortion views on Harvard letterhead...
...April 23, 1996, under the letterhead of the venerable bank founded by Alexander Hamilton, which made the very first loan to the fledgling U.S. government in the 1780s, Gurfinkel wrote a fulsome letter to Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, urging the Fed to let Inkombank open a representative office in the U.S. Never mind that 14 months earlier some of the bank's largest shareholders had filed suit charging Inkombank with outright theft of $40 million in capital. Or that just a month before, the Russian central bank had issued a harshly critical audit of Inkombank irregularities...
...debut last January, MacFarlane was contacted by his former headmaster, the Rev. Richardson Schell. The principal asked MacFarlane to change the last name he had bestowed on his buffoonish cartoon clan, as it was also the surname of Schell's longtime assistant. MacFarlane refused. Schell got epistolary. With homemade letterhead boasting the name Proud Sponsors USA, he wrote advertisers decrying the show's subversive content. He failed to mention that the organization's membership comprised him alone. Fox confirms that at least three advertisers pulled out of the show. Is this the sound of one hand spanking...
...Christine Schomer: A couple weeks ago when I was in a despairing mood, I was taking the train from New York City and the woman sitting next to me saw my letterhead from the festival. She said "Are you from the Newport Film Festival," and I said, "Yes." She said "I highly recommend it to you," and wrote me a check for $200 on the spot. It was a very nice moment...