Word: reinvent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less compelling versions) for politics. The White Knight?s secret is to always appear unlike "the rest of them," forced by patriotic duty to enter politics and save the nation from itself. Even functionaries who?ve served most of their adult lives in the political establishment are prone to reinvent themselves as folksy outsiders when candidacy calls. Think Liddy Dole...
...viewers who recall only the nerdy teen who kept hitting on Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. "This was a huge opportunity for me," says Hall, clearly thrilled at this escape from Ex-Child Star Hell. "I saw it as an incredible gift--a chance to reinvent myself...
That's not what I'm saying at all. The challenge for the next 20 years is to reinvent the Boy Scouts." Stanfield Professor for International Peace
...several decades now, these magazine havebeen forced to reinvent themselves," says Fallows,who edited U.S. News from the fall of 1996 to thefall...
...this begs an important question: Has the traditional liberal-arts curriculum become obsolete? College presidents naturally argue that the skills their schools provide are invaluable. A B.A. degree, says Mary Brown Bullock of Atlanta's Agnes Scott College, "gives graduates the ability to reinvent themselves time and time again...and the knowledge and thinking skills that transcend a particular discipline or time frame...