Word: adaptational
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...wing of his own National Party. Botha has never received a popular mandate; he was elected by his party in 1978 after Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster resigned during the Information Department's "Muldergate" scandal. He has since shaken the Afrikaner establishment by challenging white South Africans to "adapt or die," and calling for dismantling of the petty apartheid laws and regulations that enforce racial separation. One reform, for instance, would allow hotels, bars and restaurants to desegregate at the discretion of their proprietors. Botha even scandalized the old guard by questioning the sanctity of the Mixed Marriage...
...center to the film with his sly corruption and his charmingly sleazy hokum, often delivered at omnipotent volumes over what one suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell out and adapt. One of the blackest jokes in the movie occurs when Lord Gypsy annoints his draught-plagued audience with bogus snow to the crooning of "White Christmas;" Gypsy proclaims "I can make it snow in Brazil like it does in all civilized countries." His ironic tone suggested he knows what...
...nine months, newly arrived Vietnamese have been thrust into everyday American life from the moment of arrival. Families like the Trinhs (see box) are lodged, sent to school and employed, if possible, with surprising speed. Though the culture shock is incalculable, the boat people are determined to adapt. "Whatever job they get here usually means a substantial upgrading in their standard of living," points out International Rescue Committee Executive Director Charles Sternberg. One major problem for the boat people, however, is loneliness. Un like Korean and Chinese immigrants, the Vietnamese find no well-established communities of compatriots. Most...
...primary proposal of the new conservative consensus, tax cuts for the wealthy, signifies a genuine concern for national welfare instead of corporate greed, "supply-side economics" cannot succeed in revitalizing America. Their atavistic prescription of freemarket policies to bolster productivity exemplifies the failure of modern economic theory to adapt to the complex problems of either an increasingly interdependent global economy or a fragmented American society...
...choice of Nicholas Nickleby required an entire show to be put together in six months from a play that did not exist. Nunn chose David Edgar, a young British playwright whose work the R.S.C. had staged in the Warehouse, its smaller theater in Covent Garden, to adapt a script from the teeming incidents of Dickens' 800-plus pages. "I was writing Part 2 while rewriting Part 1, and it was all constantly changing," Edgar recalls. Five weeks before the opening, he had reached only the mid-point of Part...