Word: transformers
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There would have been room, even in two hours, to pursue a coherent examination of these characters in relationship to each other and to the events that transform their lives. This kind of thing, emotions under claustrophobic pressure, is precisely what Director Roger Donaldson, a New Zealander, did well in Smash Palace two years ago. Instead, time is misspent on the allegedly exotic sights, rites and sexuality of the South Seas natives. Toplessness aside, he visualizes them pretty much as directors did in Dorothy Lamour's day. Perhaps he was distracted by the shadows still fitfully visible in this...
...days out of seven, Floyd's grille in the basement of Cabot House's Barnard Hall just serves hamburgers and other snacks to undergraduates. But on Fridays, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., jazz music and dim lighting transform the spot into "Cookin' at the Grille," Harvard's first nightclub...
...fraction of the country. With a quarter of the world's people scattered across 3.69 million sq. mi., China is so vast and complex that even the most far-reaching reforms will take years to filter down to every farm, village and faraway province. Nor can any regime transform almost overnight a proud nation saddled with a 3,000-year history of turbulence...
...reality, there has been such a schism, created, nurtured and refined by whites since the first slave ship reached these shores in 1619. What Reverend Jackson's candidacy has done is recognize this schism and provide an opportunity for Black voters to participate in, and, by so doing, transform, a political system which has this schism as a fundamental part of its foundation, and which, therefore, is itself morally bankrupt...
...Afro-American students associated with BALSA, is especially shocking, in light of Black Americans long and bitter experience with racist victimization and brutalization. It is hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...