Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground invasion of southern Laos ended yesterday, but in Washington the verbal struggle to transform the abortive Laos incursion into some kind of victory continues unabated...
...name, even though the Florida product costs 35? each, twice the price of Mediterranean fruit. Among the most popular U.S. foods are innards like liver, hearts and kidneys. Europeans regard them as delicacies, particularly the cheap young American variety, and import $40 million worth a year. The French transform some of the pork liver into high-priced páté-and sell it back...
...correctly interpreted-Sontag simply denounces the interpretation of art as well as works of art which necessitate it. Bazin's doctrine of metaphysical suggestion in portraying "content" is a dead end, then, for radical formalism. Form itself must become the subject, the "content," continually renewing itself in order to transform outmoded consciousness. Duet for Cannibals attempts this, by taking up outmoded conventions and destroying them, each in turn. In "Against Interpretation" (1964) Sontag makes a case for interpreting interpretation (at this time in history) as a social force of repression against new forms, as a purging of "dangerous emotions" (like...
...special sense of benevolence as a nation-an erosion of the ugly qualities that accompany such overweening confidence, including excessive fear of "loss" or "failure." It can lead, in time, toward a new national maturity: a sense that we are only one of many, and that we cannot transform the world by ourselves...
...narrative describing the discovery of Christ's resurrection begins. But it has a few half-concealed implications that are wide-eyed blasphemy for those who see the Last Supper, for instance, as a sacred event. Webber and Rice, with a neat bit of circular logic and some imaginative rewriting, transform the Last Supper into an open fight between Jesus and Judas. While this goes on, the Apostles sit calmly by getting into their cups, oblivious of what is going on, singing a drunken ditty that gets raggeder each time they sing it and that implies that the Gospel accounts...