Most adventurous eaters embrace Zen Palate's multinational dishes and call them exotic, while traditional, conservative eaters might well stamp them bizarre.
(Even though the journal entry from that evening says something like: Well, stamp an R on my forehead and throw me in the Reject bin!).
"Made in New York" might as well be stamped all over this Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning 1959 musical, which opens the 20th anniversary season of Encores! musicals in concert.
In some pieces, the calligraphy is contained within carefully measured compartments, like those found on classic Persian manuscript pages, to which the artist has added colored paintings of angels and pieces of fruit, as well as stamped ink seals.
The motto "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" — or, alternatively, "abandon all privacy, ye who enter here" — might as well be stamped on every smartphone and emblazoned on every social media log-in page.
But suddenly false notes of contrivance are being struck: a trivial interruption by a police stenographer at the tense climax of an interrogation; the use of Lisa's toy piano (given to her by her dead father) as a symbol of human mystery that might as well be stamped with the brand name Rosebud.
(I may as well have stamped "I'M A MUSLIM" on my forehead, right?).
The present Iranian situation -- now one of the most combustible on the planet, as Menon points out -- might as well be stamped "creation of the Great Satan".
The party leadership would do well to stamp on this from the start.
He took refuge in two hobbies — tennis, which he didn't play well, and stamp collecting, on which he spent several hours each evening.
This figure includes the fee for a license to acquire land (which is 18percentt of the market value for condominiums, 25percentt for houses), as well as stamp duty on the transfer deed, lawyer's fees and approximately $1,700 in application and registration fees.
