Kisa, then, represents both the good and the bad, transforming from cute to demonic through the burning of candle wax.
In this engaging new book the television critic for hitfix.com provides a smart, observant look at 12 "great millennial dramas" — including "The Sopranos," "The Wire," "24," "Friday Night Lights," "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad" — that transformed the TV landscape and moved the small screen out from under the shadow of the movies.
Sandy, who was clearly a really bad time, transformed me into a cracked-out techno junkie looking to score a signal so that I could send a text and maybe, just maybe, if I was really lucky, get some information about what was going on.
"After hearing his side, I was convinced he was telling the truth," Ms. Smith wrote in her recent self-help memoir, "Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities Into Your Biggest Assets".
"Architecture must go beyond buildings because buildings are not enough," declared the curator Aaron Betsky, who proceeded to fill the exhibition with bad art, transforming the Arsenale into a gauntlet of inscrutable installations by the ageing architectural elite.
Major life events, good or bad, seldom transform a person; rather, as noted by the author Irène Némirovsky, they just bring one's underlying character into greater relief, "as a strong gust of wind reveals the true shape of a tree when it blows off all its leaves".
Last week, Simon and Schuster released, Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets by Judy Smith.
Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets, is currently on sale wherever books are sold and on Amazon.com.
Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets is a must-read for anyone who needs to see their way out of a catastrophe; has a problem that seems to rear its ugly head time after time; or is in the midst of a crisis that seems all-consuming.
In her book, Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities Into Your Biggest Assets, Smith pinpoints seven character traits that she says give rise to those screw-ups, and can send even the best of us spinning into turmoil and disgrace -- ego, denial, fear, ambition, accommodation, patience and indulgence.
