KETCHUM, Idaho — Searching for ways to keep his adrenaline pumping after a motorcycle accident forced him out of the military and into a wheelchair, Darol Kubacz recast himself as something of a pioneer of extreme sports.
The key was to stop positioning the Flip purely as another electronic device, and to recast it as something simpler and more revolutionary: a source of easy, on-the-go video that would brighten people's lives.
On occasion, though, the group's fury has been recast as something else entirely.
Whitechapel has been recast as something like Buffy's Hellmouth, a place with an in-built conveyer-belt of baddies.
As the body of the sufferer became victim of a host of once compatible illnesses, society recast the sick as something to be shunned: an agent of perceived moral and social pestilence.
There was a grace to it, and to him, that was authentic in a way that simultaneously deflated all the familiar Yankees pomposity and recast the game as something strangely prayerful.
Still, Mr. James may have achieved a victory in getting the measure recast as something other than what many critics had derided as a Christmas tree of pork-barrel projects that failed earlier.
At the gig's end, the performers assemble for an ensemble version of Voice from the Mountain, another song from Drake's final session that sees its downcast mien recast as something joyous and celebratory.
While this may have been easily disproved, it is more difficult to deal with events recast as something else, even when presented with evidence.
Could combating incurable diseases lie in something as simple as light?
Not even something as yummy as caramel.
