Word: altering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very difficult to imagine at Harvard. Luckily Simmons College was willing to take a chance on art that many people consider questionable at best. An exhibition like this performs a powerful service, rivaling the influence of a whole museum full of galleries. We see that graffiti does not simply alter the commonly accepted definition of art; rather, it shows how incomplete or impossible that definition...
...case of the cluster bomb, it is their ability to pierce armored vehicles, blow up personnel and otherwise alter the battle plans of an enemy brigade on the move that has made them a vital part of American campaigns in Iraq and more recently in Kosovo...
What am I doing here? Serena Williams asked herself in the middle of the championship tie breaker that would help her make history, allow her to fulfill her father's predictions and alter her relationship with her older sister. It was a moment of doubt. But being 17, she dismissed it quickly--just as swiftly as she recovered from the nervousness that tripped up two earlier chances to win the title outright in her match against Martina Hingis. Serena's prevailing ethos reasserted itself: she doesn't lose tie breakers. She hasn't lost one all year. The rule held...
...there must be another one on the way, and sure enough, here comes Personal Injuries (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 384 pages; $27). But another Turow, as his constant readers have discovered, does not mean the same story with different names attached for the sake of variety. Turow likes to alter the form as well as the content of his novels, and Personal Injuries contains some surprises that are remarkable even by Turow's inventive standards. "This is a lawyer's story," announces the narrator, George Mason, at the very beginning of the book, "the kind attorneys like to hear and tell...
Students will go to the polls in less than two weeks to vote on a referendum that could force the Undergraduate Council to reverse a $10 hike in its term-bill fee and to alter its election process...