Word: recastings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notes TIME contributor Iyer lost when his home in Santa Barbara was consumed by fire in 1990 were for a planned nonfiction volume on Cuba, which would have been his fourth book. Thus bereft, Iyer turned to his imaginatioin and recast the work as a first novel. In that sense, he says, "it really is the book that rose from the ashes...
...White House would dare say so last week, but the tragedy gave the President something to talk about larger than his political problems. Clinton had been trying to recast his presidency after the new Republican Congress wrapped up its much heralded first 100 days. But he hampered that effort with two comments. First he revived one of the most controversial periods of his own past by saying he felt vindicated in his opposition to the Vietnam War, thanks to the penitent memoirs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Then Clinton strained to assert his own relevance to events in Washington...
...Crimson knows that "Clarke wasn't here for the (CUNY Professor Leonard) Jeffries lecture" in the spring of 1992, and perhaps the staff hopes that by praising the BSA's "Very important role...in the Harvard community" its revisionist attempt to recast itself as the protecting friend of the BSA will go unnoticed and unchallenged by those who were absent during its major conflict with the Black community...
WASHINGTON -- With Hillary Clinton's chief of staff MARGARET WILLIAMS planning to leave after the fall elections, Administration officials are quietly searching for someone to recast the First Lady's image by mixing in a little more tradition and tea sipping. "We need a young Liz Carpenter-type," sighs one official, referring to Lady Bird Johnson's inventive Texas-bred press secretary. Key question in job interviews: What should Mrs. Clinton's next project be? Good answer: Promoting the needs of children...
Aides believe that a similar course correction is in the works and will probably be refined during those lazy afternoons on the porch. Coming off the close victory on crime and facing a possible defeat on health care, Clinton has been thinking a great deal lately about how to recast his goals for the next two years. Aides know that a more conservative Congress next year means Clinton will have to move to the middle by concentrating on welfare reform, reviving the middle-class tax cut and making cuts in entitlement programs. They do not claim it will be easy...