Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, held out the possibility that the American people's opposition to the war in Indochina can end it, but warned last night that economists from the U.S. and Japan are now making plans to transform Southeast Asia into a source of cheap goods for sale in the rich countries of the world...
...only film industry which seems to have overcome its skittishness over politics is the Italian. Bellochio, Petri, Pontecorvo, Bertolucci have all made films which transform tough social criticism, by passion and human perception, into art. Even Italian hacks, like Montaldo of Sacco and Vanzetti fame, are hacks on a higher plane. If American film is to mature, its maturity will come from those able to confront Kramer's value system and erase its sigma from socially-conscious flimmaking. As Robert Steel said (in New American Review...
...report claimed the 'Bureau discriminates against Indians and other low-income minorities and benefits a handful of powerful farmers and landowners. The Bureau was created to transform arid Western lands into fertile cropland through the construction of dams and irrigation systems...
...best, the bright new plastic furniture now invading U.S. stores can transform an ordinary room into something straight out of 2001; at its worst, it changes the same space into something uncomfortably like Motel Modern. Either way, plastic furniture-no longer disguised as wood but blatantly and unashamedly plastic-looking-is now showing up in homes all over the United States...
...against Oakland, one of the strongest teams in the American Football Conference, Plunkett completed only six of 15 passes; but two were touchdown tosses of 33 yds. and 22 yds., and he led the Patriots to a stunning 20-6 upset victory. "I don't think we can transform the Patriots into a winning team in one year," he says realistically, "but I've been pleasantly surprised to find that some of this business is not as difficult as I thought." Plunkett saw a bit more of the difficulty last week against the tough Detroit Lions, who pulled...