Word: recast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter has recast his Administration in significant respects. The White House staff is broader-gauged, and at last Carter's confidant and principal aide, Hamilton Jordan, is out of policy and into politics, where he should have been from the beginning. Carter's new Secretary of State, Ed Muskie, is streetwise and strong, reinforcing the President wherever necessary...
...American Newspaper Publishers Association. He has used his ANPA position to exhort fellow journalists to defend the beleaguered First Amendment and to hire more women and minorities. These are heartfelt concerns, but Neuharth's passionate pursuit of them is constantly put to use in his crusade to recast Gannett's image. The company trumpets its commitment to journalistic freedom and excellence in expensive and seemingly ubiquitous corporate advertisements, and a skillful p.r. staff lets no Gannett achievement go unheralded. The chain has even adopted a new motto: "A World of Different Newspapers" has become "A World of Different...
Holy Moses, what an all-star cast that is in the upcoming Wholly Moses, a desanctified recast of the biblical story. The premise of the movie is that a second baby, Herschel, was set adrift on the Nile at the same time as Moses. Never mind the hieroglyphic plot; just consider a cast that includes John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, John Ritter, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise and Jack Albertson, along with Richard Pryor in a robes-and-rigamarole cameo as the pharaoh who puts Herschel down. Pryor became ill on the set, and no wonder. Maybe even...