Word: adapts
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...this is the sort of ignorance we aim to combat. Just like any other cultural or ethnic organization, we simply want the community at large to gain a deeper appreciation of Jerseyan culture, as well as offer Harvard Jerseyans a chance to meet and help each other adapt to life outside the Garden State...
...have the romanette-a-clef turned into a movie. But the indie-prod outfit Hecht-Lancaster was a comer - "Trapeze," with Burt Lancaster and Curtis, had hit it big, and "Marty" would win the top Oscar in 1956 - so when they promised Lehman he could direct as well as adapt his story, he bought...
...probably shouldn't have done," says drummer Larry Mullen Jr. "He did a book as a favor for a friend of his in Ireland that 'explained' all the lyrics. I think that was a mistake because one of the most valuable things about his lyrics is that you can adapt them to any particular situation...
This picaresque nightmare of a novel was a best seller in its native Russia, where it appeared under the title Generation P--that's P as in Pepsi. It's the story of Babylen Tatarsky, a miserable adman hired by greedy mobsters to translate American jingles and adapt them for a newly capitalistic Russian marketplace. Tatarsky stands in for a whole generation trapped between a discredited Soviet past and a banal, Westernized future, and the absurdity of the situation sends him hunting through the seamy Muscovite underworld for some meaning at the bottom of it all. That he is coached...
...probably shouldn't have done," says drummer Larry Mullen Jr. "He did a book as a favor for a friend of his in Ireland that 'explained' all the lyrics. I think that was a mistake because one of the most valuable things about his lyrics is that you can adapt them to any particular situation...