Word: transformative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic grounds. They believe that the largely unpolluted Tombigbee will be turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...
...They have an amazing ability to transform the body into something else," Matson says of Pilobolus. "Without knowing it at first, what they were looking for was a new visual language--something beyond words." They just may have found it. Because if this is dance (and Matson says they don't think of themselves as dancers), it's the first kind in which the members of the audience do not immediately refer to their own bodies in reacting to the movement on stage. Here, a single dancer's body is only one unit in a larger structure; the ambiguity...
...that when you retire, the government will take care of you: Social Security, he says, must continue to be "a compact between generations" in which today's workers pay for better lives for today's retirees. Bush says you can and should take care of yourself. He wants to transform the system into a long-term personal investment plan: You put in money now and take it out when you retire. What do you think...
...frequently critical of American policy, found the massacre "unAmerican." Said the paper: "It would have been inconceivable, and without doubt unrealizable on the victims' own soil, with or without their consent. It was necessary to uproot them, to transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend among French intellectuals, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur thought that the massacre epitomized...
...Rubin, a second-year acting student at the drama school, organized a student search committee to consider possible replacements for Brustein when he leaves next year. "We went through lists of likely candidates. And, honestly, we found very few people who had that same drive and desire to transform American theater. If there is one thing I'll regret losing when he leaves next year, it's going to be that vision he's taking with...