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...tungsten movie lamp. There are designers like Reed Krakoff, who trusts that his intuition will enable him to tool leather handbags and accessories in a way that will appeal to millions of consumers. There are rock-'n'-roll stylists who know just how to rip a T shirt to transform a garage-band punk into a pop-culture It girl...
...year after White Crucifixion, he completed Midsummer Night's Dream, in which a woman uses her blue fan to deflect the ardor of a goat-ass who is but also is not Shakespeare's comic Bottom. We are born partly of the animal world, says Chagall, but sometimes we transform our base impulses into gold...
...that imprisons them in their cities and separates them from their land, whether to expand Jewish settlements and their attendant infrastructure, or to build the security wall that will lock them into a patchwork of enclaves comprising less than half of the West Bank. It is its inability to transform those realities that is the inherent weakness of the "roadmap" plan...
Mohammed Imad Khazalalrubai does not appear in any deck of cards or on any list of Iraq's most wanted. Until last week, the 16-year-old was an ordinary student in an affluent suburb of Baghdad. But it took only minutes to transform him from a bystander to American rule in Iraq to a willing recruit for the resistance movement, vowing to kill U.S. soldiers. As he and his brother Zaid drove home after collecting their family's monthly rations of flour, rice and cooking oil, they came upon a hastily established American checkpoint, part of an outer security...
During the second half of the class, Billings leads his students to a ten-foot strip of paper extending across the floor. Together—some students making calculations on the boards, others measuring lengths on the paper—the students transform the strip into a line of numbers and their squares. They will have to raise points on the number line to their third and fourth powers for homework...