Word: revamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program, long overlooked in the war between the administration and students over public service, has quietly made changes in an effort to revamp its program...
Rent may or may not have revolutionized the Broadway musical, but the form certainly is attracting some interesting playwrights. David Mamet is helping revamp the book for Randy Newman's Faust, which made its debut to much fanfare at California's La Jolla Playhouse last year and will resurface Sept. 30 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. (Look for long, circular conversations between Faust and the devil.) Terrence McNally (Master Class) is tackling the book for Ragtime, a musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, which begins a pre-Broadway run in Toronto in December. And Britain's prolific Alan Ayckbourn...
...When [softball coach] Jen Allard came in here to revamp the softball program [there] was a huge conflict between our preseason and their softball games in the fall," Harvard basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith says. "[And Reinhard] took as many as five-course semesters as four-course semesters...
Christopher Renshaw, the British director of The King and I, had a daring idea: not to revamp the story of Anna Leonowens, an English governess who waged a war of wills with the King of Siam, but to underline the convulsive drama at the story's core. As played by Donna Murphy (steely presence, gorgeous voice) and Lou Diamond Phillips (who eventually shrugs off the shroud of Yul Brynner), Anna and the King are each emotionally isolated--she as a widow and a foreigner, he as a man bred to a belief in his own infallibility. When they finally, lightly...
Harvard Law School will revamp its use of computers in the curriculum within the next five years, according to Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz...