Word: transformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teaching us our relationship to the father of medicine, the father of law, the father of mathematics and science and religion, this makes us desire now to come up out of our ignorance and achieve the best that we possibly can achieve. And this is what begins to transform the person's life...
...like to call the time we live in are gently submerged within Hector's character. The comedy of the novel is gently submerged as well within its obvious tragedy, but the submersion is so delicate that the tragedy at times seems to fade. But while Hector does manage to transform "peace of God" into "pizza of God," somewhere amid the IV sacks and experimental treatments he loses the pizza as well. His humor, an arm against fear, will not protect him, and although he dreams or perhaps even sees the Deds ultimately walking arm in arm, he will...
...stiffness does not matter: the crowds shout and ululate no matter what he utters. He is making an effortless transition from freedom hero to South Africa's President-almost-elect. His organization, however, must work much harder to transform itself from a liberation movement with a history of violence into a modern, functioning, grass-roots political party. Some of Mandela's top lieutenants are learning to perfect their new roles as politicians under the tutelage of Swedish Social Democrats and such Clinton campaign stalwarts as pollster Stanley Greenberg and media adviser Frank Greer. The foreign experts are coaching the A.N.C...
Harding's dream is that "the gold" will transform her life, which, as she underscores in the media, has been a hardscrabble road. Allegedly her on-again off-again husband Jeff Gillooly shared her vision. According to Gillooly, when Harding interpreted disappointing scores in a Japan competition last December as a sign that she might be frozen out of the Olympic Games (in fact she flubbed a crucial combination), Gillooly fell into a discussion of sporting politics with his old friend Shawn Eckardt, who ran something called World Bodyguard Services from his parents' Portland, Oregon, home. Eckardt recruited two associates...
...based on the supermarket tabloid of the same name), teeters precariously between sensationalism and spoof. It is one of those high-concept, high-wire acts that Tartikoff was known for at NBC, like the "MTV Cops" that eventually became Miami Vice (big hit), or the crime fighter who could transform himself into a jungle beast in Manimal (big bomb). Weekly World News, a proposed series for CBS that will air for two episodes this spring, is as good a show as any to serve notice to the TV world that Brandon Tartikoff is back...