Word: reinvente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pigs, and made the hot dog, and trucked it to market and bagged it for you. The little guy and gal, that is, the working stiffs. They need all the honor they can get these days. At the rate blue-collar wages are falling, the U.S. is going to reinvent slavery in the next few decades, only without any of its nice, redeeming features, such as room and board...
...trouble is that insults and oddballs do not wear very well. To survive for the long haul, most sitcoms have to reinvent themselves in more sympathetic terms. The regulars at the Cheers bar were originally a collection of funny misfits; now they're a family. Roseanne roared to the top of the ratings on the strength of its revenge-of-the-housewife wisecracks. Since then it has played down the gag lines and established a nice rhythm as TV's best domestic comedy...
...party, army and KGB -- were also finally discredited last week. If Gorbachev is really intent on perestroika, which means restructuring, this is his golden moment. He can purge, break up and decentralize at will. In fact, he and the other leaders of the society will need virtually to reinvent the government and then find new people to staff...
...anatomy, Madonna is ready with an orchestra of masks for your pleasuring and consternation. Call them out-of-bawdy Madonna experiences. True, and daring. What is most astonishing about Madonna is not her originality or even the commercial success of any particular artistic venture, but her willingness to reinvent herself boldly again and again. The force that keeps her a moving target is a naked defiance that is nothing if not original sin: she wants to live forever, if only in our dreams...
...SCHOOLS. The President wants to "reinvent the American school." Federal grants of $1 million each would go to start 535 brand-new experimental schools by 1996, with at least one in each congressional district. Meanwhile, businesses would contribute $150 million or more to a research-and-development fund. The schools would "break the mold," says Bush. Sponsors could be public or private. Once reforms are working, he hopes, a populist ground swell will demand that they be imitated...