Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarm of dedicated aficionados, El Cordobés' success has encouraged a group of imitators who threaten to transform bullfighting from a dramatic and highly emotional art into a crazy circus act. His imitators are even worse than he is. Significantly, one of them calls himself "The Disaster," another "The Assassin," and a third, whose outlandish caricature of the El Cordobés style has brought him warnings by bullfight authorities, fights under the name of "Little Banana." Last month at a town just outside Madrid, one young apprentice tried to introduce a new dimension to bullfighting by parachuting...
...organized -- and it was, bringing all the facets of the broad development project under a single administrator -- Logue, who is responsible directly to the Mayor (and, at least in theory, to the BRA). Since that time, these two men have worked in tandem to develop and transform into reality The New Boston, and Collins has essentially placed his political career on the line with the success or failure of the redevelopment scheme...
...Social Significance. He, a man of the people, sketches the wretched Cuban sugar workers sweltering away in steerage. She, a girl of polish, prefers nice portraits, or maybe landscapes. Their conflict is resolved in bed, where the masses can't come between them. Such Abby Mannerisms help transform a substantial work of art into a second-rung work of artifice, never quite worthy of those Ship passengers who deserve to travel first class...
...Colorado, where flash floods can transform even docile streams into treacherous torrents, students in particular have taken to inner-tubing with a fervor that has alarmed the local authorities. A month ago, a 16-year-old boy was tumbled out of his tube by a particularly boisterous cataract, and sometime later was found dead about ten miles downstream. Said a sheriff's deputy: "The body was horribly mutilated-as if it had been run through a meat grinder...
Tolen has The Knack. With a tap on his snare drum, a fillip of his hair, or an rpm of his white cycle he can banish the serneity of any normal giri and transform her into a quivering mass of ungovernable desire. Colin wants to get The knack. He's just a mild-mannered, horny school-teacher who'd be satisfied with one of Tolen's girls. So when Nancy arrives, Colin decides to make his feeble play, with some help from Tom, a crazy Irishman who must paint everything white. Good destroys evil, Colin gets Nancy, and Tolen loses...