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...Bolshevik revolutionaries were hardly unique in renaming places to mark their arrival on the world scene; the French Jacobins even redid the months of the calendar. But the communists carried the process to extremes, both to honor their heroes and to Russify the hard-to-pronounce appellations of the territories, like Georgia and Central Asia, that they added to their polyglot empire. Thus, the ancient Azerbaijani trading city of Gyandzha became Kirovabad to honor Sergei Kirov (he got a ballet company too), who headed the Communist Party in the republic in the 1920s. Nizhni Novgorod was renamed Gorky...
When Peter Sellars '80 was an Adams House sophomore he asked Adams House master Richard Kiely for permission to clean up a trunk room in the basement. Kiely gave the now prominent director free reign and Sellars redid the room. Thus Harvard's first basement theater, called "Explosives B" after an explosives factory sign that Sellars had found, opened...
Choreographer Tony Charmoli redid several numbers to take advantage of Raquel's energy and training as a dancer. Where Bacall spent most of one number standing on a pool table, Welch is all over the boards, kicking almost to the second balcony and turning what was a rather boring scene into a showstopper...
...workers from the White House Communications Agency laid cable throughout Barbados and set up switchboards to handle approximately 50 phones for the President's party; a phone is installed virtually everywhere Reagan pauses even for a few minutes. In the process, says one White House aide, "they basically redid the Barbados phone system" and left it far more sophisticated than before. The aide explains that "it was too expensive to haul a lot of the equipment out," so the gear was simply turned over to the islanders...
...ancient language that has never been written down and apparently has no symbols or alphabet?" Now Hill says she has been misunderstood: she did not write a complete Lakota version, but translated important concepts and phrases into Lakota, researched the root meaning of each Lakota term, then redid the English version...