Word: reinvente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Great athletes reinvent their sport. They reveal that the game can be played in a way that no one before had imagined. In basketball, Bill Russell showed that great defense spelled even better offense. Elgin Baylor showed that basketball was played in the air, not on the ground. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed that a seven-footer could be as graceful and mobile as players a foot shorter. Jordan combined all the exemplary skills of the greats who preceded him in one leaping, gyrating package. Sometimes it seemed as though he did everything better than anyone else had ever done...
...Latecomers enjoy an easier learning process and don't have to reinvent the wheel," Goh said...
...Gore '69 and his White House staff have set about reinventing government, the Republicans, a scattered group, are attempting to reinvent themselves. They know that in 1992, Bill Clinton did not receive an over-whelming mandate from the American people on the power of his campaign goals (an idea that the media took up with relish in the post-election period, but have since abandoned in their growing disdain for the White House...
...Anna Marie Wooldridge, then became Gaby Lee and, for a time, Mrs. Max Roach. If all these shifts in appellation suggest a life that has gone through many changes, that's hardly the whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something as precious as her identity. At 63, Lincoln is in full command of both her life...
...this and the rest of the survey in mind, perhaps it is time to rethink Take Our Daughters to Work Day: it may make more sense to let sons follow their mothers to work and witness their treatment, while daughters and fathers stay at home for the day to reinvent the politics of parenthood...