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Word: recastings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kath Weston, an assistant professor of anthropology at Arizona State University, said the biggest challenge for scholars today is to recast theoretical work, so that people who are not professors can understand it. Although theoretical work helps to lend Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies legitimacy in academic circles, Weston said scholars must try to reach non-academics if they hope to agitate the public and help spark grassroots political change...

Author: By Peter J. Keith, | Title: Scholars Debate Gay Issues | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...into a throw-the-bums-out mood so intense that many lawmakers are afraid to face their constituents. As a result, incumbents from both parties are finding that the very tenure in office that used to be a political asset can now be a liability. They are scrambling to recast themselves as populist crusaders whose main reason for being in the nation's capital is to fight against its wicked ways. Says Larry Harrington, a Democratic Senate campaign strategist: "Everybody is playing the outsider. That's this year's shtick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housecleaning Time? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Even before her current burst of renown, Fisher had become a sought-after scriptwriter. Film rights to Surrender have been sold to Paramount with Steven Spielberg producing and Fisher supplying the dialogue. She's also finishing a film script called Christmas in Las Vegas, a recast, modern Hansel and Gretel tale based on one of her short stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIE FISHER: A Spy In Her Own House | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...recent critics of Japan is that he is, at the core, a moralist; to him, the avidity with which former government officials are willing to work for foreign interests symbolizes the erosion of America's "civic virtue." His is a critique of the familiar, entirely legal, Washington revolving door, recast in patriotic terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Is Washington in Japan's Pocket? | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...political have raged there forever, and another is blowing this summer. Mathers will survive as he always has, with hard work, shrewd calculation. He and those like him may be the future of this vast and troubled land, which seems to be stumbling back in time toward a recast frontier where grass will be king, some buffalo may actually roam again, and man will be in the minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Where the Buffalo Roamed | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

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