Word: transformers
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...keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman, formerly of Yes, will be appearing at the Music Hall. Upon completion of his "Journey to the Center of the Earth" tour, Wakeman wanted to repay his fans for their loyalty with a presentation they would never forget. Faithful to his promise, Wakeman will transform the Music Hall stage into a medieval circus for his interpretation of the legend of King Arthur, complete with damsels in distress, magicians, and a jousting bout between knights in armor. When asked bout the financial side of this musical fantasia, Wakeman replied, "It'll probably break me but at least...
Compelled to forswear sex out of an exaggerated fear for her lovers' wellbeing, Sand would deliberately transform her passion into a chaste maternal solicitude for her beloved. Eventually the privation she imposed upon herself would sour and destroy the relationship. As seen in her letters and diaries, this emotionally exhausting, sexually unfulfilling pattern is endlessly repeated until her life begins to read like a cautionary tale on the excesses of romantic love...
Charlie Finley is arrogant, obstinate, contrary, repulsive and shifty, but if he could transform the 1960 Kansas City Athletics into the Oakland team of 1972, 1973, 1974 and possibly 1975, imagine what he could do for the financial woes of New York City...
...what has happened recently to transform Harvard's image from an asylum for academicians to a refuge for artists...
...poets seem to be peering at the dawn of the world; Cavafy stares at its doom, a weary Olympian contemplating the "toys of fate." With age, the poet might have become a complete Cassandra of declivity. But he never relinquished his belief in the power of the artist to transform the sordid into the contemplative serenity of beauty...