Word: morphing
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...audience enters the black box theater and discovers it filled with fog. A couple of large, industrial-looking contraptions sit on the floor. These structures, which vaguely resemble natural forms, and throughout the performance will morph into laboratories and cabaret-club walls, are lit from the inside with ghostly colored lights. The audience can’t make sense of any of it, but knows they are somewhere else...
...favor of getting it over rather than getting it correct. This has meant that Lieberman, considered a happy St. Bernard in 12 years in the Senate - "as moral, decent and honorable a man as I've known there," said Senator John McCain last Friday - has seen his image morph overnight into a Rottweiler. Conventional wisdom holds that a position can't be principle if it is also self-serving. As Lieberman waited to go on "Larry King Live" recently, I asked him how it feels to go from media favorite to just another pol. With his "What, me worry?" smile...
...music has always assumed a Western liberal-humanist bias. We think of earnest guitar strummers in natural fabrics singing for human rights and tolerance. But as recent history teaches, in the new cold war--between the Hollywood/Mickey D's axis and every other world culture--genuine cultural pride can morph into nationalism, racism and worse. To the world's musical rebels today, is the enemy within or without...
Some call them magic seeds, for their ability to replicate indefinitely and morph into any kind of tissue. Taken from human embryos only days old, stem cells are nature's blank slates, capable of developing into any of nearly 220 cell types that make up the human body. Scientists believe they will lead to cures for diseases once thought untreatable...
...tired of vetting the Jackasses and Limp Bizkits of the world, reruns are a haven in the big scary media environment. For kids, they are another manifestation of today's palimpsest pop culture, in which everything is ripe for sampling and nothing stays dead. They have seen the movies morph Charlie's Angels from jiggle joint to empowerment parable; now they can see the reruns, back on TV Land, big sisters once removed to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dark Angel. Says Ron Simon, a curator at New York City's Museum of Television and Radio who teaches...