Word: transformational
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...inefficient government bureaucrat. Keefe's brown-nosing graduate student is so distressingly accurate that many audience members shuddered visibly, no doubt recalling past experiences in Literature and Arts courses. The production, designed by John Gordan '01, was simple yet effective. The blank half wall allowed the performers to transform the space quickly and effortlessly, moving from a bloodstained office (a result of spontaneous human explosion in the second scene) to a co-ed poker game in a small southern home...
...years, I have suspected that others among the 88 million families who take annual vacations know magical ways to transform an unruly brood into a modern version of the Von Trapps, the tune-whistling family that managed in The Sound of Music to cross Central Europe on foot, without whining over whose turn it was to help the baby over the Alps. Then, a few weeks ago, psychologists at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society reported some research I find disturbing: vacations are good for your health, and measurably decrease a man's risk of dying young of heart...
...Warmerdam has established herself as a master of repetition. Yet instead of documenting existing patterns of the visual world, she creates repetition from things that don't repeat, using film loops to transform isolated events into patterns of great expression and beauty...
...Sheriff Stone and his colleagues, though, appear to be mostly between a rock and a hard place. Law enforcement work has always been a balancing act between the rights of individuals and the good of the public. And when that "public" can transform overnight from a community of quiet suburbanites and small weekly papers into a legion of lawyers and an international press corps, that balancing act becomes considerably more complex...
...recent times, however, the cheetah has not been able to outrun its own vulnerability. Its lifestyle requires large expanses of land where prey is abundant. As farmers and ranchers began to transform the African landscape, the cheetah population, which reproduces slowly under the best of conditions, began to suffer. Forever on the move in search of food, the cat became a frequent target of trophy hunters and farmers who didn't want cheetahs killing their cattle. A quarter-century ago, about 30,000 cheetahs roamed in 44 African countries. Today the figure is fewer than 15,000 in 26 countries...