Word: recastings
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Easier quoted than done. Jimmy Carter came down from his meditations on Camp David's mountaintop in 1979 determined to recast his stalled Administration by making a few changes in his Cabinet. "I dreaded this duty," he wrote later. Carter softened the task by gathering his Cabinet and asking them all to offer their resignations for consideration as he reordered things. Bad idea, he later admitted, after he had accepted the resignations of Treasury Secretary Mike Blumenthal, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. He should have done it quickly and individually...
...other ways, too, Washington's plans to help recast the Middle East order have been frustrated. Iraq remains a source of tension. Arab-Israeli peace efforts are foundering. And the Arab states that pulled together against Saddam have returned to quibbling among themselves. For all the brilliant clarity of the allies' military victory, the peace has produced a murky landscape. Among the reasons...
...dark well of Madonna's life. It is her bid for serious consideration as a multimedia artiste who is more attuned to the aesthetic ideas of Martha Graham (whom she plans to play in a forthcoming film) and Isadora Duncan than to her contemporary pop-star peers. To recast a line of her favorite playwright, David Mamet: "She's eating at the Big Table now." Quoth Circe...
Aziz's words unnerved U.S. officials, who realize that Iraq's threats contain a brutal logic. If Saddam can strike even a limited blow against Israel, he may be able to recast the gulf conflict into an Arab-Israeli war, forcing some of Washington's Arab allies to abandon the coalition and perhaps even compelling Syria to switch sides. That gamble must have seemed all the more tempting last Wednesday, when President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as warning that Egypt would reassess its position if Israel became involved -- though he conceded later that "Israel has a right to defend itself...
...else, the creators recast the leading role, a marooned English seaman who must make a life in Japan. Clavell originally wanted a Briton and hired Peter Karrie. Mounting discontent with him led the creators to turn to Casnoff, 37, who had sung the role ably at an informal audition but at the time struck them as too young, little known and American. Casnoff took the job but wanted further changes: "I was kind of outspoken because they had so much work to do in so little time. They were between an opera and a book musical, neither fish nor fowl...