Word: recastings
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When the stage was his only world, Kenneth Tynan dominated it as no drama critic since George Bernard Shaw had. When, sometime in the 1960s, the wide world was turned into a stage for celebrity posturings, the critic recast himself as a potential star, offering himself as an international social critic and sexual reformer. And became just another face in a crowd grotesquely clamoring for attention. The life his second wife, Kathleen, recounts in her uncompromising and ultimately harrowing biography-memoir becomes the record of a befuddled search for the fulfillment of youth's inordinate promise, and for the graceful...
Amendments, events and judicial interpretations have recast and reshaped the Constitution to meet the needs of an evolving nation...
Becoming the first Chicago mayor to win re-election since Daley did it twelve years ago, Washington gained the kind of clout he will need to recast the city council and the shattered Democratic machine to his liking. But Chicago's bitter political divisions remain: the mayor captured an estimated 95.6% of the black vote but just 20% of the white vote...
...chance that they might finally be able to pinpoint a specific progenitor star, which could finally confirm or recast their theories about how supernovas explode, has astronomers beside themselves with excitement. "It's like Christmas," says Woosley. "We've been waiting for this for 383 years." Agrees Kirshner: "Everyone in the field has been calling each other up, partly for scientific reasons and partly for sheer pleasure. It's like when someone has a baby -- it's a great event, and you just want to talk...
Originally envisioned as a work for television, Queenie Pie was left incomplete at Ellington's death in 1974. In putting it on the stage, the American Music Theater Festival had to play Rimsky-Korsakov to Ellington's Mussorgsky. Ellington's original libretto was recast by George C. Wolfe, the tunes were fitted with new words by George David Weiss, and the score was reworked by Conductor (and sometime Ellington collaborator) Maurice Peress under the supervision of the composer's son Mercer. The trick was to minimize the book's implausibilities while making the most of the score's seductive melodies...