Word: transforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILLY LIAR. The far-out fantasies of a young clerk (Tom Courtenay) delightfully transform one of those bleak English cities into a non-U Utopia...
Paul proposed that the church transform its lifetime parish freeholds into leaseholds with a maximum tenure of 15 years. Bishops, who themselves would be limited to 15-year terms, would have the right of appointment to all livings in the dioceses, in consultation with regional staff boards and a new centralized personnel office for the clergy. Paul proposed that bishops should amalgamate many small city parishes, and that benefice income should be pooled to create a common fund, thereby allowing bishops to establish a uniform salary scale for the clergy-and to reward the more talented priests with appropriate raises...
...Utopians think that science can transform the Atlantic Ocean into lemonade," snorted Karl Marx's coworker, Friedrich Engels. Yet who should be serving up lemonade last week than that old realist Nikita Khrushchev. In the Kremlin's marble-hailed Palace of the Congresses, addressing the Communist Party Central Committee and more than 5,000 other comrades, Nikita promised that one great force would miraculously straighten out the Soviet economic mess: Big Chemistry...
...brand-new Volkswagen engine, plus a special gearbox, rear axle and suspension-and $2,495 buys the whole 825-lb. bomb from the factory. The family sedan can even be raced as is: just painting a stripe down the hood or a number on the door is enough to transform it into a "touring class" racing machine...
HIGH AND LOW. In modern Yokohama, a kidnaper bungles his attempt to nab a wealthy shoemaker's child. And Director Akira Kurosawa demonstrates that all it takes is genius to transform a routine suspense yarn into fascinating drama...