Word: recasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...screenwriters concede that they massaged some facts for dramatic effect. To offset the downbeat reality of Andy's premature death, for example, they took a successful Carnegie Hall show from early in Kaufman's career and recast it as his last hurrah before succumbing to cancer. Several girlfriends were combined into a composite character, played by Courtney Love, and a few other liberties were taken as well. But Kaufman's life remains familiar to those who best know it. "Facts, schmacts, they made him honest," says Bill Zehme, who spent six years researching Kaufman for his comprehensive new book Lost...
Ironic, isn't it? Ten years after the Berlin Wall came crashing down, the vision it stood for is being recast--this time as a judicial house of cards. And it's all happening in a country where the magnificence of a diametrically different vision is on display...
Hopefully, President Obasanjo's optimism will spread beyond the geographical boundaries of Nigeria, and the country's lost role as the "Giant of Africa" can be recast as the "Phoenix of Africa...
...strong is the force against the city manager and his power, according to Frank A. Pedro, chair of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee, that almost every one of the 24 candidates has expressed a desire to recast the city government in some...
After the Second World War, American higher education was again made, as the GI Bill made it possible for many more Americans to attend college than ever before and as the government began to invest in basic research. Harvard recast itself under then-President James B. Conant '14 to become--as it had not been before--a meritocratic institution drawing on a national student base, and the centuries-old school showed itself to be the leader among America's new system of higher education...