Word: transformative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BONNIE RAITT AND JACKSON BROWNE. Bonnie Raitt dropped out of Radcliffe for records and roadtrips, and has become one of the finest and most versatile rock and blues singers around. She handles six-string, National Steel, and bottleneck guitars with equal grace. She can take even flimsy material and transform it into rousing, gutsy blues...
Ruth used the home run to transform baseball. In the process, he made the homer a part of American culture, a symbol of the country's affection for the fast, decisive stroke that can determine the outcome of a contest. Aaron, Ruth's heir if not his rival, has kept that drama alive. Baseball may no longer be the national pastime. But when a slugger steps into the box to face a good pitcher, it is man-to-man combat, and the possibility of a home run still carries excitement. With Aaron, year in and year...
Texans don't seem to mind, however. Residents are convinced that DFW will transform the area into the economic anchor of Middle America. They shrug off charges that extra acreage was bought so they could call their airport the world's biggest and ignore the fact that Montreal is building a bigger one. Theirs is the biggest now. Says former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson, who helped bring the two cities together in the first place: "A wholly different world will be opening...
...must create a mood, an ambience," says Hutton. Wrapped in a scruffy blue towel, preparing for a session, she takes extreme pains to transform her face with makeup-glopping a brownish base on her neck to create "shadows," penciling in an outline around the lips to make them look more even. To even out her jaw-the left side is minutely larger than the right-she adds bronze gel to one side...
...relying on him to create a "socialist fatherland." They give indications that they may settle for nothing less. "Perón promised youth a revolution," warns Ernesto Giudice, 65, a member of the relatively conservative Communist Party's central committee. "If he doesn't transform society quickly and fundamentally, youth is going to do it-with or without...