Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maeve Brennan is the kind of writer who can transform the arrival of a sofa in a lower-middle-class Dublin household or the cleaning of a carpet (one with big pink roses on it) into an extraordinary celebration of family love. She does this by a steady accumulation of detail and alternate flashes of passionate statement and raw insight. The accomplishment is formidable-something few writers attempt without sounding precious, dull, or both...
Digging In. The Communists believe that the U.S. "intends to transform [South Viet Nam] into an outpost to prevent the revolution from spreading down to Southeast Asia." Because of congressional opposition, Watergate and economic woes, the Communists concede, "it is difficult for the U.S. to return to South Viet Nam." Nonetheless the directive cautions against ruling out the possibility...
...weather is a continuing threat. Rains, if they come at all this year, are due to arrive in mid-June. They could transform the dusty Sahel into a muddy bog, making vehicle traffic impossible. FAO officials had hoped that most of this year's aid would be prepositioned in remote regions by June. However, red tape and a lack of urgency by the donor countries made shipments late. Most of the grains should have arrived at African ports by March, but only 266,000 tons had been received by April. An additional 170,500 tons arrived last month...
...Shepard's play is a difficult one to transform, and an even more difficult one to watch. One can enjoy the intervals of comedy and relish certain moments of dialogue, but even perfect execution wouldn't lend clarification to Shephard's meaning...
...display their talents, she spent $5 million to transform an abandoned movie palace into the first U.S. theater designed specifically for dance. What was once the grubby RKO Colonial is now an intimate, lavishly appointed house with a decor of powder blue (Mrs. Harkness's favorite color), black marble floors, lots of mirrors, chandeliers and easily filchable gold-plated faucets in the rest rooms. The disconcertingly dominant feature of the theater, alas, is a campy, Daliesque mural by Spanish Painter Enrique Senis-Oliver called Homage to Terpsichore, which all but swallows the proscenium. Immortalized in an agonized, thrusting morass...