Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baby-boom children of the broad American middle class-especially seduced by the illusion. Until now, through many headlong cultural confusions, they carried with them a barely conscious expectation, a sort of buried genetic code. When they chose to do so, when the babies started arriving, they could transform themselves into Ozzie and Harriet and find houses like the ones their parents owned-or much nicer, maybe-and therein comfortably get on with the American dream...
...star with L 'Avventura, would call on her old mentor to collaborate on the project for RAI, the Italian television network. But Antonioni saw no challenge in restaging the play. Instead, he would shoot the production on videotape, and then transfer it to film-and, in the process, transform the story into a meditation on the incestuous links among the performing arts...
Singing was not enough, however; a complete transformation was required. The passage of time and the ingestion of enough peanut butter sandwiches usually do transform twelve-year-old children, of course. But Streep sees what she calls "my makeover" as a willed act, accomplished with contact lenses, a bottle of peroxide and an iron determination. By the time she entered Bernards High School in Bernardsville, N.J., she had indeed become "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout," acting out what she calls "my first characterization; I played the blond homecoming queen for several years." It was not a mindless, giddy time, however...
...left, which he said were "inextricably linked" in a tragic cycle. True enough, the U.S. has consistently favored a democratic solution to El Salvador's problems, involving free elections. But conspicuously missing from Enders' speech was any mention of "a well-orchestrated international Communist campaign to transform the Salvadoran crisis into an increasingly internationalized confrontation" between the U.S. and clients of the Soviet Union. The words were those of Enders' boss, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, last February...
...single win, even on Centre Court in the Wimbledon final, will transform McEnroe into the world's champion player. He will have to overcome Borg many times in the future before he can say that he tops the rankings. Moreover, no one example of praiseworthy self-control, even graciousness, will erase the memory of McEnroe's performance in the semi-finals, throughout the tournament, and in the past. McEnroe should be forced to pay all of the fines he has been threatened with, including the most recent suggestion of a $10,000 contribution to the All-England Club Kitty. Perhaps...