Word: recasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway's idea of adventure seems to be the inclusion of two Andrew Lloyd Webber songs from his yet-to-open musical adaptation of the film Sunset Boulevard. There's also a version of Webber's song The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera, $ recast as a duet between Streisand and Michael Crawford. Three Webber songs is four too many...
...some extent, however, although the college's new emphasis on public policy was inspired by Wilson, the initiative will not require new programs. Instead, some old programs will be recast in light of new goals. Education for Action, for instance, has existed for 27 years...
Koons' work is a late footnote to Pop art that relies on one obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny...
Some bids for the black market are largely a matter of style. Even before Bill Clinton donned sunglasses and went on The Arsenio Hall Show, Pillsbury put shades on the Doughboy and recast him as homeboy. K Mart, meanwhile, hired a black advertising firm that created an ad campaign around the slogan "Looking Good." In one radio commercial, a woman tells her friend about the store's new fashions. "Girl, I couldn't believe my eyes," she says. "I went out and looked at the store name again. It was K Mart all right...
...working for two years with Congress to pass new laws regulating air pollution, establishing rights for disabled Americans and setting forth revised guidelines on civil rights, Bush now criticizes the regulations that have resulted from those measures. After three years of defending the status quo, he is trying to recast himself as an agent of change. Asked two weeks ago why he was making such an issue of welfare reform, an area he has ignored since 1987, Bush's reply was breathtakingly transparent: "I think the politics drives some things...