Word: reinvention
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...owners, antipornography crusaders, tax protesters, working women, stay-at-home moms, even some fathers'-rights activists. At every stop, Gramm emphasizes his zeal to balance the budget, cut taxes on families, end welfare benefits to people with children born out of wedlock and appoint judges who "will interpret not reinvent the Constitution." His flat-tax proposal, which retains the charitable-contribution deduction, is carefully designed to attract check-writing churchgoers, and it's a message he drives home with ads on 12 Christian stations across the state...
...with love and discipline; a geology major who became, in the words of Gerald Ford and the view of many others, "the best public speaker in America"; the product of one of the most rigid, hierarchical institutions in American life who had a chance to realign political parties and reinvent race relations; a relative political unknown who inspired huge trust; a black man on a white horse...
Some psychologists go further and challenge the very idea that emotional skills can or should be taught in any kind of formal, classroom way. Goleman's premise that children can be trained to analyze their feelings strikes Johns Hopkins' McHugh as an effort to reinvent the encounter group: "I consider that an abominable idea, an idea we have seen with adults. That failed, and now he wants to try it with children? Good grief!" He cites the description in Goleman's book of an experimental program at the Nueva Learning Center in San Francisco. In one scene, two fifth-grade...
...Just Like My Father finds ways to reinvent the one-woman, coming-of-age, queer play to create a truly superlative theater piece. She continues to push the boundaries of gay and lesbian theater, proving that the genre is alive and well...
...comes to delivering information, computers have a lot of advantages over magazines, but being pretty isn't one of them. "There's nothing worse than trying to read text on a monitor," admits Janet Waegel, TIME's online design director. Waegel therefore took it as a challenge to reinvent the magazine's electronic editions, which appear each week on Pathfinder, Time Warner's site on the Internet http://www.pathfinder.com/time) and on America Online. Seven months ago, she and designer Ron Plyman threw out everything they knew about designing for print and started from scratch, trying to create a newsmagazine...