Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into a calamity", and leaves it at that. In another section, Higgins concludes that Nixon's major fault was not that he was "arrogant...ruthless...petty, ungenerous, somewhat bigoted, and monumentally cynical" but "simply that he did not keep his word," which explains less than nothing...
...keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman, formerly of Yes, will be appearing at the Music Hall. Upon completion of his "Journey to the Center of the Earth" tour, Wakeman wanted to repay his fans for their loyalty with a presentation they would never forget. Faithful to his promise, Wakeman will transform the Music Hall stage into a medieval circus for his interpretation of the legend of King Arthur, complete with damsels in distress, magicians, and a jousting bout between knights in armor. When asked bout the financial side of this musical fantasia, Wakeman replied, "It'll probably break me but at least...
Compelled to forswear sex out of an exaggerated fear for her lovers' wellbeing, Sand would deliberately transform her passion into a chaste maternal solicitude for her beloved. Eventually the privation she imposed upon herself would sour and destroy the relationship. As seen in her letters and diaries, this emotionally exhausting, sexually unfulfilling pattern is endlessly repeated until her life begins to read like a cautionary tale on the excesses of romantic love...
Charlie Finley is arrogant, obstinate, contrary, repulsive and shifty, but if he could transform the 1960 Kansas City Athletics into the Oakland team of 1972, 1973, 1974 and possibly 1975, imagine what he could do for the financial woes of New York City...
...what has happened recently to transform Harvard's image from an asylum for academicians to a refuge for artists...