Word: reinvente
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...year period ending June 1983 were black. Of the 142 films released by the major studios last year, fewer than a dozen had blacks in starring roles. Having seen it all before, blacks know not to ask for too much. "We aren't trying to reinvent the Hollywood wheel," says George Crosby, president of the Association of Black Motion Picture and Television Producers. "We just want to add spokes that will strengthen...
...widespread praise for its passionate, sometimes overwrought meditation on the madness of mutual assured destruction (MAD). Schell argued that the apocalyptic nature of nuclear war had rendered obsolete not only war itself but the concept of national sovereignty. He called on the superpowers to eliminate nuclear weapons and to "reinvent politics" by creating a world government loosely based on the pacifist ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. His message was ultimately defeatist: unless the world took his vaguely defined and wildly Utopian advice, it was doomed...
...whales, admire the mallard, reflect on the moral transformation of the seagull. The boots one sees protruding from this tumulus of Orvis-catalogue kitsch are poor dead Thoreau's. But to bring a whole mode of invention to bear on some aspect of the natural world, to reinvent its emblems within a living tradition of art history-even for a moment, or in a fragmentary way-is rather more difficult, and that is what Nancy Graves has done with these sculptures...
...same time, Atari has not kept up with the fast-paced video-game market. Said one industry watcher: "A game company has to keep ahead technologically-invent and reinvent. If you don't have both the marketing and technical savvy, you're going to get killed." That is indeed what happened, when other video-game manufacturers came out with products that had superior graphics...
...Space Center, King Lear featuring a Lincoln Continental. (Subject for a future master's thesis: Automotive Metaphor and the Sound of Cultural Collision in the Early Work of Peter Sellars.) Sellars clearly seeks not so much to rejustify all these stage pieces as to re-examine them, even reinvent them, for a contemporary audience. What is up-to-date in The Mikado is timeless, but what is charming is essentially antique, brittle as a piece of porcelain. Porcelain is not the ideal material for broad strokes and bright colors...