Word: recastings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most controversial change (curiously, since nobody spends much time there) is in the Lincoln Sitting Room, recast from fairly boring Reagan-Bush conventionality to Victorian overload. In the family's personal rooms, the palette shifts to pleasant pastels, prompting one visitor to observe that the Bushes' patrician threadbare-and-dog- hair style had given way to a less inviting, don't-touch tidiness. Perhaps that can be remedied by time, wear and Socks...
...Americans have ventured into Somalia in a sort of surreal confusion, first impersonating Mother Teresa and now John Wayne. It would help to clarify that self-image, for to do so would clarify the mission, and then to recast the rhetoric of the enterprise...
...truth to the rhetoric of empowerment. Its central theme is an effort to involve people in their communities. Kemp's HUD policies avoided completely imposing "assistance" upon disadvantage people. Instead, they aimed to encourage community members to feel connected to, and responsible for, solutions to their neighborhood dilemmas. "Empowerment" recast politics as a primarily local phenomenon...
...quite there yet. A somewhat recast, restaged and even rewritten version started previews last week at Washington's Kennedy Center, to standing ovations, but will not arrive on Broadway until late November. There it faces a tough fight. Ticket buyers may balk at the $100 top price for the two shows. Critics may stress the unsubtle, almost cartoonish nature of some of the characters and acting, rather than focus on the mounting and ultimately overwhelming power of the narrative. Even if everyone lauds the show, it may share the fate of the 1990 Tony Award-winning adaptation of The Grapes...
Throughout a heart-shape chunk that stretches 500 miles across and 600 miles long in ten Midwestern states, this deluge has recast the lives of the Goedereises as well as thousands of other families, perhaps forever...