Looked at a different way, it's the writer David Vann subduing his terrible memories as he prepares to transform them into fiction.
For the rest of the show, the four set about secretly preparing to transform themselves into a tough, snarling quartet, the Angry Housewives.
Now, with her first solo album, "The Magician's Private Library" (XL Recordings), to be released Tuesday, Ms. Miranda is preparing to transform herself again.
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The White House spent last week in full campaign hysteria, blitzing online followers with the message that heartless Republicans are prepared to transform America into "Les Misérables" in order to protect "millionaires and billionaires, oil companies, vacation homes, and private jet owners".
Having spent more than 20 years as a business school professor in both America, at Wharton, and Europe, at IMD, I am particularly concerned with how business schools work with top executives in preparing to transform organisations for the future.
Invigorated by the rigorous, humanities-based academic experience for which Columbia College is known, its students emerge from the 116th Street gates prepared to transform society and, with it, the world.
Ariane Mnouchkine, the director of Théâtre du Soleil, circulated briskly through the crowd, greeting the guests, encouraging the performers and giving last-minute logistical suggestions to her company members, who were preparing to transform the hall into a banquet room right after the performance.
Last May, after five weeks of rehearsal at the Glyndebourne Opera House on the Sussex downs of southeast England, the young American soprano Danielle de Niese was preparing to transform herself into Cleopatra — or at least an operatic impression of the great queen as envisioned in the director David McVicar's audacious production of Handel's "Giulio Cesare".
