Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nova Scotia was immortalized in the overwrought poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Now their cuisine has become democratized into a culinary cliche as even fast-food restaurants offer ersatz renditions of jambalaya and gumbo. Yes, the Cajuns have shouldered their share of suffering. But are these injustices enough to transform the 250,000 descendants of the original Acadian settlers in Louisiana into a minority group eligible for state affirmative-action programs designed for blacks...
...Commencement planners must transform the mud flats of late winter Tercentenary Theater into grassy lush meadows, collect huge quantities of chairs to seat thousands of guests, and install an infallible sound system to accommodate even the most hard-of-hearing alumnus...
...look timidly at the ropes and rigging, the aerialists' gear. . What if . . . Whoosh! Colored smoke floods into the ring; lights swirl. A mysterious sprite materializes from vapor: the beautiful and alarming Queen of the Night (Angela Laurier) is here, not just to call the circus into being but to transform the peasants themselves into clowns and acrobats. Instantly a fat old uncle (Michel Barette) is undressed, then recostumed as -- Help! -- the show's ringmaster...
...faces grave challenges ahead. The government has demonstrated that it can contain major outbreaks of worker dissent, but only by means that are likely to provoke more trouble in the future. The workers have managed to deliver a message of defiance and rage, but they are not able to transform it into political gains. In the empty space between those embittered stances, the prospects for productive dialogue are slim...
...year-old graduate of Israeli jails, Mahmoud has worked since February to stoke the fires of rebellion. His personal allegiance is to Fatah al- Intifadeh, a hard-line, pro-Syrian faction. His first assignment was to transform the informal activism of his home refugee camp into an efficient engine of protest. With seven other Palestinians representing most of the P.L.O. factions and one spokesman for unallied "independents," Mahmoud welded together a series of secret subcommittees charged with various aspects of the rebellion...