Word: reinvent
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...EVIL FLOURISH in our society where we give it the soil to grow. But once the evil is gone will we have to reinvent it to remind ourselves what we should not do? Should we reprint racist remarks to warn what we might revert to? And when racism was a more apparent problem than it is today, should we not have protested against it? Perhaps we are silly and being laughed at, accused of being prudes but think of the standards you apply when you laugh and try to wonder whether you can rationalize away sensitivity...
...Spielberg has surprised us before: as an auteur prodigy, as the thrillmaster of Duel and Jaws, as the savvy director who could reinvent the movies' innocence. The man is only 37 now, and his toughest audience is himself. You needn't be a child to believe that this movie magician still has astonishments in store...
Such insights may be intended ironically; if so, Gordon gives no clues. For all the novel's virtues and craftsmanship, Men and Angels is remarkably humorless. Being a feminist, and having to reinvent the world, is evidently hard and serious work. And one of the occupational hazards, which Gordon skirts but cannot quite avoid, is sacrificing art on the pulpit of ideology...
...Naisbitt, a visiting fellow of the Institute of Politics, said there would be great changes in the corporate world, and outlined "14 Partially Baked Ideas," trends he alleged would "reinvent" corporations and thus improve the human condition...
...being invited to a black-tie dinner with a group of typical yuppies, nervously ambitious professionals in their late 20s-but there were no servants. "Wearing black tie and cooking your own dinner is like make-believe," says Hamilton. "It's like the whole nation is trying to reinvent the 1930s, including '30s manners and mannerisms." Over brandy and cigars the host complained that his "greatest problem was when his father came by on his motorcycle with his latest old lady...