Word: recasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance that they might finally be able to pinpoint a specific progenitor star, which could finally confirm or recast their theories about how supernovas explode, has astronomers beside themselves with excitement. "It's like Christmas," says Woosley. "We've been waiting for this for 383 years." Agrees Kirshner: "Everyone in the field has been calling each other up, partly for scientific reasons and partly for sheer pleasure. It's like when someone has a baby -- it's a great event, and you just want to talk...
Originally envisioned as a work for television, Queenie Pie was left incomplete at Ellington's death in 1974. In putting it on the stage, the American Music Theater Festival had to play Rimsky-Korsakov to Ellington's Mussorgsky. Ellington's original libretto was recast by George C. Wolfe, the tunes were fitted with new words by George David Weiss, and the score was reworked by Conductor (and sometime Ellington collaborator) Maurice Peress under the supervision of the composer's son Mercer. The trick was to minimize the book's implausibilities while making the most of the score's seductive melodies...
...company's specialty is the construction and equipping of so-called mini steel mills. These comparatively small plants recast scrap steel and iron pellets into finished bars, rods and other products. The minimills are in great demand because they can produce steel much more cheaply than traditional plants with huge blast furnaces, which convert raw iron ore and coal into steel. Danieli has put up mills in 27 countries, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Burma and Venezuela. In fact, the company has helped design, build or equip about half of the more than 250 minimills in the world...
...feminism--or a certain brand of feminism--has gone beyond those liberal claims, attempting to recast the roles of men and women, and to change the rules of the Battle of the Sexes. Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will, laid the foundations by contending that women have been repressed by the socially tolerated threat of rape. One implication is that women can never achieve equality with men until rape is wiped out. Another is that sexual relations are somehow inherently unjust, that a man always has the tacit trump card of a potential rape to play against his partner...
...usual, the legal issues obscured the real ones. The feminist fascists used the rape argument as a Trojan Horse. Their ultimate purpose was to recast the relations of men and women...