Word: reinvention
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...redesigning of America is not likely to stop with the objects highlighted in your cover story [DESIGN, March 20]. The consumer will have to remodel the kitchen to accept new gadgets. We'll have to reinvent a nail for the elegant hammer and prepare attractive trash for the see-through wastebasket. We architects designed buildings based on such concepts as "form follows function," "organic architecture" and "less is more." Now industrial designers are coining terms like "blobjects," "commodity chic" and "cutensils" by creating items to match. Kudos to them. CLEMENT R. PRABAKARAN Sterling Heights, Mich...
...longer. Asia is producing its own Net nerds, who are bringing new businesses and technologies to the region and, along the way, getting rich beyond their wildest dreams. If all works out, geeky pioneers in Japan, China, South Korea, India, Singapore and Taiwan may reinvent Asia's future--just in time. Regional Internet analysts estimate that there will be 300 to 400 Net-related IPOs in Asia this year, half in Japan and India...
...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...