In his article "Already Reworking the Classics of Modern Realism" [Feb.
We are writing from New Dramatists, a 50-year-old organization dedicated to cultivating playwrights, in order to challenge Richard Schech ner's dismissal of contemporary writers ["Already Reworking the Classics of Modern Realism," Feb. 13].
Weather modification, aka rain-making, isn't much more effective today than it was in 1956 when Burt Lancaster starred as a water-witching con man in The Rainmaker, and vegetation management (so that trees and brush will consume less water) is a non-starter when climate change and epidemic fires are already reworking the landscape.
A day after succeeding her former boss, Kevin Rudd, Ms. Gillard said she had already begun reworking some of her predecessor's unpopular policies and intended "to get the government back on track".
And, as "House of Names" (Scribner), a new novel by the Irish writer Colm Tóibín, suggests, the Oresteia narrative in particular — precisely because it has already been endlessly reimagined, reworked, expanded, and adapted — poses special problems for even the most inventive and subtle writers.
The Senate has already vowed to rework the bill.
Lieberman said he was already thinking about reworking his bill's R&D provisions to accommodate SARPA--a Security Advanced Research Projects Agency modeled after the Pentagon's agile Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Far from reworking already common ground, in each case Bilbro provides extended readings of one or two works by each author through the lens of his or her different religious affiliations.
How Obamacare will shape future hiring policies remains to be seen, but some have already attempted to rework hiring strategies in anticipation of the new law.
A succession of encounters follows, all reworking the already tired theme of suburban versus urban.
