Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes to this understanding in the course of her own relationship with Mike, who tries to convert her to his ways--love of nature, literature, gloom and doom skepticism and a dose of televangelism. He only becomes overbearing as she realizes her wants and needs are different. In a reposeful moment in bed with him, she wryly thinks to herself, "We are all suckers for the tender, cozy life." Gradually she pulls away from this relationship. Ruby has always been comfortable with herself, she has always relied on herself to get through life, but by the film...
First they convert their swimming pool into a theatre. Then, to inaugurate it, they fill it with transvestites. In true Adamsian style, La Cage aux Folles was staged as the first production in the Adams House Pool space. With its tidy sitcom plot, neatly resolved and well-acted, and its requisite cross-dressing humor and flamboyance, Harvey Fierstein's musical does justice to this theatre opening...
...organized by Dole at which she spoke along with no fewer than seven Republican Senators, gave a glimpse of the White House counterstrategy. She pointedly complimented Chafee for including universal coverage in his bill. The implication: the Administration will seek to get that established as the prime goal and convert the dispute into a mere debate about the best way to achieve it -- an argument Clinton's aides think they can win. The First Lady, however, drew only tepid applause, in sharp contrast to the raves inspired by her congressional testimony a month earlier, an indication perhaps of how much...
Although Harvard controlled the action from the opening tip, it took nearly half the period for it to convert one of its many scoring chances...
...computer companies in Petaluma and nearby Silicon Valley to seek donations of equipment. The result was eight computers, which were put to use faxing 1,000 posters a minute to grocery chains and transportation hubs around the U.S. Two nationwide printshop chains, PIP and Kinko's, pitched in to convert the electronic images into high-quality hard copies at all their outlets. Local volunteers distributed the posters...