Word: refashioning
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...maniac Norman Bates as well as the art-gore montage of the winsome Janet Leigh being stabbed to death in a shower. For some, the thought of Gen X stars Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche replaying those parts seems like heresy. Not for Van Sant. "[Psycho] is perfect to refashion as a modern piece," he insists. "Reflections are a major theme in the original, with mirrors everywhere, characters who reflect each other. This version holds up a mirror to that film; it's sort of its schizophrenic twin...
From the initial discussions about how to refashion the car in 1992, through the myriad meetings, arguments, sketches and prototypes that went into the final model, Mary Walton, a business writer, was given complete access to the $2.7 billion investment...
...Jefferson or Kennedy. Our opponents haven't cornered the market on goodness, and they need to be challenged." He claims that despite his opposition to racial preferences, he believes in affirmative-action outreach programs and efforts to upgrade public schools in poor neighborhoods. "What I want to do is refashion the concept of affirmative action, grab on to those things that I think the American people will support." In short, Connerly believes affirmative action must be destroyed in order to save it. That's a pretty good joke, to be sure, but it's no laughing matter...
Effectively cutting loose the poor was just part of an effort by the Democrats to remake themselves in the face of a Republican juggernaut that is now racing through Medicare. As they prepare for a bitter battle over that crown jewel of the Great Society, Democrats are determined to refashion themselves as defenders of the middle class against the G.O.P. raiders. It was the foul mood of the middle class that made welfare a losing issue for Democrats. And for the same reason, with pocketbook issues dominating the final weeks of the congressional budget fight, the latest items...
...party-line votes, both the House and Senate adopted the Republican seven-year balanced-budget plan that would slash spending by nearly $1 trillion and taxes by $245 billion. President Clinton warned that he would wield his veto power in the months ahead to refashion the spending and tax bills that will be required to implement the plan, which only sets budgetary outlines. In other budget matters, a $16.4 billion package of cuts in the current year's budget-originally vetoed by the President but since modified by Republicans to obtain his support-was stalled just before the July...