Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benefit to the Egyptian people was Sadat's disclosure that taxes were being reduced (a tax on movie tickets, for example, was abolished), the minimum wage was being raised from $22 to $28 a month, and prices of 77 basic commodities were being lowered. Such measures will hardly transform the lives of Egypt's 42 million citizens, who subsist on an average income of $300 a year while coping with an inflation rate of 35%. But coming at a time of foreign policy disappointments, the announcement may have bolstered Egyptian morale at a critical moment...
Harvard has, by leaps and bounds, upgraded its athletic program over the last four years. A dramatic facilities facelift has provided the University with badly needed first-rate homes for swimming, hockey and track. And the expected renovation of Briggs Cage, which will transform the Cambridge Dustbowl into a sparkling new basketball arena, certainly will give Crimson athletes access to a top-notch athletic complex (assuming, of course, that ancient Harvard Stadium does not crumble in the near future...
...edge of Mexico City, known as El Pedregal, a huge lava desert left from the eruption of the Xitle volcano 2,500 years ago. Fascinated by the savage beauty of the lava's shapes, Barrag�n and a partner bought 865 acres of the land and began to transform it. Each plot was to be a walled garden, celebrating the lava's strange forms, the cacti and the twisted trees known as palo bobo (silly tree). Each house was to be as simple as possible and should not occupy more than 10% of the plot. Steps and pathways were carved...
These are only a few examples; the power and surprise of the show lie in the richness of such variety. Taken as a whole, the pictures turn out to be less about cars than about photography, its prodigality as a medium, its capacity to abstract and transform the materials of reality. The show's real subject is the camera's ability to extract from the banality and clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness...
...annual $11 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development alone. Since 1951, the United States has provided Nepal with well over $2 billion, but Shah remains highly critical of the uses that money has been put toward--in particular, of what he considers idealistic attempts to transform native institutions into prototypes of American ones. "Why should we give up our traditions to come up to some criteria which you have set for us?" he complains. "It is industrialized nations who are setting these criteria--$1000 per capita income, T.V. sets, cars, If we were to define the criteria...