Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat still faces hazards. One is that by relaxing state controls he may transform Egyptian life more than he intends. Says one critic: "How can you have freedom for foreign capital without freedom for local capital? How can you give freedom to the capitalist without giving freedom to the trade unions?" Regionally, Sadat's new friendship with Washington is fine as long as Israel continues to withdraw from Egyptian territory. But if the Israelis balk, Sadat at future Arab councils is likely to find himself the target rather than the central force...
...tolerate a certain amount of experimentation. However the critical issue is not the Yard as object, but rather the Yard as place. To proclaim all buildings sacrosanct simply because they have been built there is nostalgia rather than architectural evaluation; on the other hand, architectural and environmental experimentation would transform the Yard's character completely...
...film does have some funny scenes. Zero Mostel's characterization of a fastidious gentleman, slowly changing into a rhinoceros before our eyes, is wonderful. His extraordinary facial expressions and contortions transform him into a wild, snorting beast. He begins charging around his bedroom smashing furniture and eating plants. Unfortunately, though this transformation scene is funny, and Mostel is at his absurd best, the scene is just too long and gimmicky. O'Horgan's determination to make the play a conventional comedy ruins the scene. It's always fun to exploit Mostel's talent. But long comic scenes which rely...
...specializes in the male-to-female type. Most of his patients have usually lived as women long before they go to Casablanca to take what he calls "the last, irrevocable step." But, insists Dr. Burou, a plain-speaking Frenchman: "I don't change men into women. I transform male genitals into genitals that have a female aspect. All the rest is in the patient's mind...
Some analysts interpreted the vote as a slap at Labor's attempt to transform conservative Australia into a welfare state, plus a protest against inflation, which has more than doubled in the year that Whitlam has been Prime Minister. The independent Melbourne Age offered an even gloomier interpretation. It saw an "ominous precedent" in the vote, noting that the last time a Labor government had ruled the country, its ouster (in 1949) was preceded by a similar rejection of a referendum over the issue of federal control of prices...