Word: recasting
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...much as having their country ignored, it is my duty to report that they had no trouble figuring out who won. I discovered while perusing the Globe and Mail that the only problem with vote counting took place in Pictou Landing, Nova Scotia, where dozens of citizens had to recast their ballots after a man carried the ballot box out of a polling station and threw it into a waste-treatment lagoon--a method of slowing down the count that even Katherine Harris never thought...
...punched a hole through the ceiling, which led to the total rebuilding of the interior of the White House. About the same time, the Truman Balcony--which raised the hackles of purists--was added and turned out to be a blessing for those living there. Jackie Kennedy recast the decor with fine art and antiques. An outdoor swimming pool was installed for Jerry Ford and a jogging track for Bill Clinton, who not long ago spoke for all the modern Presidents--and, yes, all Americans--when he mused while wandering through the White House corridors, "I love this place...
...owns the screen. Surround him with actual singers and actors and require him to emote, and our generosity is tested. But Carey is bolstered by a jovially hammy production, with music composed by Stephen Schwartz (Pocahontas). It's testimony to modern adults' pop-psych self-absorption that Disney has recast the story around the puppetmaker dad's parenting issues. At least they picked a charming guy to pull the strings...
...took available information and recast it in an intelligent and interesting way," Pipes said...
...perfect fable for our time: HAL recast as a billion tiny bugs, his omnipotent malevolence replaced by our own innocent oversight. Technology had become so all-encompassing and incomprehensible, the fable began, that we had unwittingly lost control of it. So the smallest thing, our human habit of hiply referring to years by the last two digits, was going to topple this electronic pack of cards, sending planes crashing to the ground, nukes leaping from their silos, electricity to a standstill and all of humanity back to a time much earlier than the 1900 our computers would believe...