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...policies often change, sometimes radically," Dayan once told an Israeli interviewer. "But so do circumstances. I like to think of myself as one of those people who adapt themselves to changing circumstances, who react to the changes, and who sometimes help to create them...
Stripes (Harvard Square): Army comedy preoccupied with sex. Do you think Bill Murray lucked into his style or is he a comic genius conscious of his persona and therefore able to adapt to changing tastes? Only time will tell...
Although small, start-up companies now dominate personal computer software, hardware companies like IBM and Hewlett-Packard are moving into the field. IBM has already announced it will sell programs to match its new personal computer. Even IBM, though, commissioned several of the new personal software companies to adapt their product to its machines...
...come nowhere near meeting Black demands. Few whites realize that in the past couple of years, Blacks have come to insist on full equality and freedom. And they want these things right away. In 1979, Prime Minister P.W. Botha declared that apartheid was at an end. South Africans must "adapt or die," he warned. Most Blacks believed him. When his promises of sweeping reform proved to be empty, Blacks were extremely disillusioned--and more bitter than ever. Tofile of the American Cultural Center asserts that many Blacks are no longer willing to share and compromise with whites. "Now they want...
...write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills to the new environment: Souchak defends himself against a mountain lion by calling on his street smarts. They must fall in love, part, reunite: they do. And then Kasdan must resolve the romance and still allow the characters to go their own way: does he ever...