Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gone through many changes, that's hardly the whole story. They also indicate that this remarkable singer's managers have tried several times to reinvent her to suit themselves. Talking with her now, it is difficult to believe such a self-consciously independent woman would permit anyone to tinker with her name, much less something as precious as her identity. At 63, Lincoln is in full command of both her life...
...dance. In fact, the fairy godmother's role seems disappointing and anticlimactic. She enters as a mysteriously draped witch-like figure, yet when she throws off her cape, her tiny insect-like wings and simplistic dance movements, which at best included numerous bourres pointe across the stage, brought Tinker Bell to mind rather than a sublime maternal figure. Similarly, Gelfand's performance as Cinderella lacks the strength called upon by the role, relegating her stage presence to the ranks of The Nutecracker's Clara rather than the fairy tale's triumphant princess...
...administrators, including Rosenthal, seem content to tinker with a system that everyone knows is broken. Some wonder if this is what Dana Farnsworth had in mind...
...Winsten, an associate dean at the SPH and director of the Center, first launched the television initiative seven years ago with assistance from Frank Stanton, former president of CBS, and Grant Tinker, former chair of NBC's board...
...enormous expansion of human brainpower during the past million years. As recently as 100,000 B.C., Homo sapiens were using only the crudest tools, even though their brains had already reached the present size -- large enough to put men on the moon, probe the basis of matter and tinker with the genetic code. Because big brains need a lot of high- calorie food and require large craniums, which makes childbirth difficult, scientists have looked for other evolutionary pressures to account for their development...