Word: recasting
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...kind of narrative flourish that calls into question its own flourish. He writes in a pastiche of Daniel Defoe's 18th century documentary style, a la Robinson Crusoe or A Journal of the Plague Year, but occasionally interrupts in his own voice to take over the narrative or to recast his themes in a 20th century perspective...
Once at Harvard, Rosegrant continued to recast her goals. One roommate describes Rosegrant's four college years as a three-phase dialectic progression: anthroplogy took up her first two college years, social work in Phillips Brooks House dominated the next year and a half, and the two activities fused in her senior thesis--a study of the lives of five lower-class women she met during PBH work in a housing project...
...agreement, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, settled a lawsuit begun a year ago by the SL and the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), its youth group. The organizations challenged the FBI on the grounds that it falsely recast the organizations as terrorist groups. The suit forced the FBI to redefine the organization exactly as it is--a Marxist political organization--instead of attributing to the group a conspiratorial commitment to violent overthrow of the government...
...unplanned exit from the stage. He did regain control, and managed to return to finish the scene (with some difficulty) and the remainder of the play, but the distraction had a disturbing affect on the tone and reception of the evening's performance. However that role has apparently been recast and the errant actor replaced, so no further problems are anticipated for this weekend...
Ellis ended his address, with an admonition that "the ideal can never transcend the real." He added that if a portrait of John Harvard were to come to light, despite Harvard's "chronic poverty" the statue would be melted down and recast. The crowd then watched the unveiling and, according to accounts in The Crimson, "gave three cheers apiece for John Harvard, Mr. Bridge and Mr. French...