Word: reinvention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...furor comes at a time when Panama is trying to reinvent itself. While only 7% of the country's economy is dependent on the canal, nearly 100% of its self-image is wrapped up in the belief that it serves as one of the world's most important trade links. This Wednesday the country will swear in a new President, Mireya Moscoso, 53, whose overriding challenge is to try to turn a world-class location into a world-class country, technologically literate and future oriented. More ambitious Panamanians (and the country's well-educated middle class is full of them...
What controversy could he possibly engender? Marchers chanting, "Ho, Ho, Hey, Hey, The Old Paradigm Has Got To Stay," or "Don't Reinvent Our Government, It's Just Fine?" No, Mr. Gore doesn't have that hot button policy which provokes a self-conscious grouping--of course, the real pros in now-departed classes almost certainly could have invented a clever rationale with an alacrity which defied Mr. Gore's apparent inoffensiveness, and brought a slew of letters, banners, and other accoutrements to bear soon after. After all, these were the same stalwarts who found problems with Gro Harlem Brundtland...
...late-'80s experiment of building cute little instant towns in places like Seaside, Fla., never really caught on: many of the communities were too far from major job centers. So now developers are chasing a new fashion. Rather than offer an escape from the suburbs, they're struggling to reinvent them by building cute little instant towns near major cities...
...film about artificial intelligence, might have been a better film for his finale than Eyes Wide Shut. But the fact that Kubrick had already made a trilogy of sci-fi flicks (Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and A Clockwork Orange) is probably why he opted to do something different. Kubrick virtually reinvented each genre in which he worked, whether it was a horror film like The Shining, an antiwar movie like Full Metal Jacket or a science-fiction feature. It is not surprising that he chose to make a psychological drama so he could reinvent that genre too. GENE D. PHILLIPS...
...would be when I got here. I poured over all the student publications I could get my hands on, trying to fit the Hypothetical me set to launch Sept. 15 into the world of the Harvard campus. Harvard, as it turns out, is the perfect place to reinvent yourself if that's what you want to do. It's a considerable violation of campus decorum to ask too much about your classmates' high school background, mostly because doing so is likely to lead to an onslaught of awards and SAT scores. The other reason, I suspect, is that many people...