Word: transformational
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Realistically speaking, my work this summer will not transform the demographics of Southie. These problems grow from deeply buried, tangled roots. Yet, I can show my ten kids a little more of the world outside South Boston. I take them on the swan boats in the Public Gardens, to the Museum of Afro-American Art, to Harvard. I hope they will understand that a whole world lies just a short T ride away. The realization that different life paths exist, besides corner-loitering or stoop-sitting, is the only way that the next generation of Southie kids will be able...
...This would presumably reduce the likelihood of cohabitation, since the elections would probably be held on or near the same date, and it would be unlikely, but not impossible, for French voters to choose a President and a parliamentary majority from different political families simultaneously. But it could also transform the monarchical-style presidency envisioned by De Gaulle into that with a chief executive more like a U.S. President. Thus, politically, as well as socially and economically, France seems to be moving in a more American direction--without ever admitting...
...Hoefler typeface--very few right angles, very few straight lines--is always exquisitely legible without sacrificing high style, somehow managing to synthesize classical elements with the churning pop culture. "Typefaces have a viral quality," says Hoefler. "It's always amazing to see where they wind up and how they transform the things they inhabit." Adds Frere-Jones: "When you're designing a typeface, you're not really making a product. You're building a machine that will go and make other products...
...know it's a slow news day when former president Gerald Ford makes the front page of anything besides the Grand Rapids Golfer's Gazette. But the New York Daily News' "exclusive" bid Monday to transform the normally inconsequential chatter of a political nonentity into serious campaign fodder was questionable perhaps only in its placement...
...scalding brew, to let it seep under her skin and flavor her tender flesh. Mouths, nostrils become cultural portals, entry points through which the diesel fumes of a Tata bus, the bite of a roadside fried samosa and the burn of the scorching sun enter one's body and transform one's soul. Here, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the magnificent flows from the mundane as the unabashedly deceptive city deflowers virgin foreign flesh with a walk in the park, a ride down the street, a single cup of chai...