Word: transformers
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...exposure of his raw sexual fantasies is not the simple invasion of privacy it might seem. Joyce's life was a tug of war between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would transform the bread of common life into art. As these newly released letters show, the aloof classicist also struggled with the dark sensualist. "It is strange," Joyce wrote Nora in 1904, "from what muddy pools the angels call forth a spirit of beauty." Ulysses and Finnegans Wake were to prove...
...banks. "We can make a car like James Bond's, with all his devices in it," claims Miguel Angel Caballero, the company's director. "The only thing we haven't managed yet is to make one that will fly." For about $7,000, P.A.Y.S. will transform any regular production-model Argentine car into a rolling fortress, with sufficient armor to withstand small-arms fire and yet maneuverable enough to speed away from a kidnap attempt...
...Between Past and Future Hannah Arendt described how the old authority was lost in the modern world; this loss is "tantamount to the loss of the groundwork of the world." Ever since, the world "has begun to shift, to change and transform itself with ever increasing rapidity from one shape into another ... Everything at any moment can become almost anything else." But, while hardly an optimist, she agreed that the loss "does not entail, at least not necessarily, the loss of the human capacity for building, preserving and caring for a world that can survive us and remain a place...
...appeal has never been the forte of Actor Donald Sutherland, 40, and his new look-shaved-off eyebrows and a partly shaved scalp-does nothing to enhance his allure. Yet those are some of the changes that Makeup Artist Giannetto De Rossi, 33, has wrought to transform Sutherland into the lady-killing hero of Federico Fellini's film Casanova. In a three-hour session each morning on the set in Rome, Rossi also gives Sutherland a false chin and nose, then winds his remaining shoulder-length hair into curlers that stick out over his ears, making it difficult...
...Nixon has to do at this point is call Earl Silbert at the prosecutor's office, come completely clean, and his problems are over. Why doesn't he? Is it out of loyalty to John Mitchell? Higgins is content to observe that "if you work hard enough, you can transform any problem into a calamity", and leaves it at that. In another section, Higgins concludes that Nixon's major fault was not that he was "arrogant...ruthless...petty, ungenerous, somewhat bigoted, and monumentally cynical" but "simply that he did not keep his word," which explains less than nothing...