Word: transformed
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...three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth," Humbert says by way of indroduction in the book, providing us with a glimpse of the verbal gymnastics that are to come. In the end, Nabokov's novel is largely about the power of language to transform a fundamentally disturbing situation into an exquisite work of art which we can admire for its own sake...
Just this month, Oprah devoted an entire show to her "Vogue experience." Audience members were treated to a 45-minute peek into what it takes to transform a 44-year-old woman into a cover model--a bit too much information into the amount of make--up, hair gel, and manpower Vogue invested into America's "Every Woman...
Paris may never be the same. In its eagerness to shed some of its vaunted intellectualism, France is trying on a newer look. To cackles of delight and a few clucks of disapproval, officials in the City of Light are planning to transform their revered Eiffel Tower into a gigantic Christmas tree, adorned with Godzilla-size ornaments, for Noel...
...Silver, a genetics professor at Princeton, is the author of Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family...
...antitrust case, according to USA Today. The paper said that former Microsoft employees have provided evidence that an undetermined number of electronic messages were deleted in May, shortly before the Justice Department filed its most recent antitrust suit. If the DOJ turns that accusation into something substantial, it could transform a regulatory case into a criminal investigation -- and leave Bill Gates feeling as aggrieved as Bill Clinton. "Microsoft has cooperated fully with every government investigation over the past 10 years," insisted a spokesman. "We have provided over 1.3 million pages of e-mail and other internal documents to the government...