Word: transformative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record can still be a subjective work: each time a director casts an actor as a historical figure or chooses a camera angle, he is shaping the facts to serve a personal point of view. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, for example, was scrupulously researched but managed to transform history into nonsense. Washington: Behind Closed Doors, for all its fictionalizations, presented a symbolically credible portrait of moral chaos in Nixon's White House. Both King and Ruby and Oswald claim to be based on fact -and contain obvious inaccuracies. But such things matter less than the grand design...
Chicago already has a municipally owned waste-processing plant with the capacity to transform an average of 700 tons of trash a day into pellets that are the energy equivalent of 120,000 tons of coal a year; it sells them to Commonwealth Edison Co. In Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons...
...native tongue: "Having nothing to say, I thought at the time that it was important to revive a distant language in which absolutely nothing could be said." Yet in a letter to Sean O'Casey, O'Brien turned temporarily serious about the language that "enables us to transform the English language and this seems to hold of people who know little or no Irish, like Joyce. It seems to be an inbred thing...
...Leys. A Belgian-born Sinologist argues persuasively that China, far from being a classless society, is a tyranny ruled by a privileged clique of bureaucrats and generals. Coming into the Country by John McPhee. Three lengthy bulletins on Alaska, handcrafted out of diligent reporting and a supple style, magically transform this vast, nearly unspoiled area into a state of mind. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie. One of the century's great novelists discloses incidents in his life (among them the death of a child and a crucial stint as a public school teacher) that...
Photography is omnivorous to the point of cannibalism. Indeed, its nature is to assimilate everything - literally, to collect the world, to transform all reality into an infinity of images, nouns and verbs without a connecting syntax...