Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Impossible, you say, to turn Love is a Many Splendored Thing into a crowd-pleasing romance? Mad, you say, to attempt to transform Caligula into a film less mindless than its creators? Bizarre, yes, unheard of, yes! But mad? Well, maybe...
...solved. Last week the firm began selling plants, trees and flowers that have been put into a kind of permanent "sleep." Weyerhaeuser owns the North American rights to the treatment, in which nontoxic preservatives are injected into the plants. The process, which also permits the use of dyes to transform green plants into red ones, has been available on a limited basis in Europe since the 1970s. Oaks, palms and eucalyptus trees, as well as indoor plants like baby's breath, can be preserved for as long as eight years. After the process, the plants look, feel and even smell...
...book in the series offers its share of insights and delights. John Barth claims that he became a writer by "passionate default." Edna O'Brien espouses chastity "except when one can no longer resist the temptation." Philip Roth, asked for the umpteenth time to compare himself to his "vividly transforming heroes," replies, "I am like somebody who is trying vividly to transform himself out of himself and into his vividly transforming heroes. I am very much like somebody who spends all day writing." Occasionally the interviewer gets the last word. When Malcolm Cowley attributes the phrase "a lost generation...
What is happening in the country long considered the only bastion of democracy in the Middle East? The institution created to protect the Jewish people is actually promoting discrimination against Jews. The religious parties are trying to transform Israel into a theocracy. Efforts toward peace are being stymied...
...canny political meddling proved to be the turning point in an election that Garcia managed to transform into a referendum on his first 16 months in office. Such tactics paid off handsomely. Not only did the President's handpicked candidate, an unknown named Jorge del Castillo, win the Lima mayoralty, the second highest elected office in Peru. When the votes were counted up and down the Andean nation, Garcia's A.P.R.A. had unofficially won in nine of Peru's ten largest cities, a gain of four. Combined with the party's control of both houses of the national legislature...