Word: reinvention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperate bid to win back his strength and standing. But a funny thing happened on the way to his deathbed conversion: he really converted. By 1994 he was calling Democrat Russ Feingold, arguably the least powerful man in the Senate, and proposing that they join forces to reinvent the whole way money worked in politics. No pac money. Free TV. No soft money. It was a crusade that was guaranteed to lose friends and alienate people, especially the ones he would need if he ever wanted to get anything else done...
...wasn't pleased with my play these past two games, especially with the turnovers," Wilford said. "But I'm not going to reinvent my game over the next week. It's just been bad decisions and some bad luck...I've pondered all those losses over and over in my head and I just can't put my finger on what went wrong...
...Divergence through detournement and derive. Situationists taught us among other things to reappropriate and reinvent the spaces around us. Do you know the escape routes from any given point in the street? Or how to be in your castle on a sidewalk? You, too, can do this. But let's draw that closer to our original point: as well as the time that swirls around everything, the history that should be inescapable we sadly can lose in the blister-wrapping on everything. Why not question why everything is so, how it was otherwise so, and perhaps toss off some universals...
There is a magical moment in the latter half of life when adults have a chance to reinvent themselves. They take on new names: Nana, Grandma, Bubbeh, Poppy, Grandpa, Zayde. They cast themselves in new roles: caregiver, mentor, pal, pamperer. They are filled with powerful new emotions that make them feel alive and vital. They become grandparents...
These impediments, however, are counterbalanced by innovations in travel, telecommunications, social understanding, health and life expectancy. Savvy parents and grandparents are harnessing these to strengthen intergenerational ties. "We have to reinvent ourselves as we go along, but we have more time to get it right," says Lillian Carson, a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, Calif...