Scientists at New York University found peoples' memories were susceptible to being rewritten between three minutes and six hours of a memory being recalled.
Initially conceived as a single play, Wedekind ended up dividing his ever-expanding material between two dramas, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, obsessively written and rewritten between 1895 and 1904.
"Müller's enormously influential Handbook of Human Physiology, written and rewritten between 1833 and 1844, shows his simultaneous commitments to vitalism, philosophy, and rigorous science" (Otis 2007, 21).
Winnie Holzman stated, "Stephen [Schwartz] wisely had insisted on having three months to rewrite in-between the time we closed in San Francisco and when we were to go back into rehearsals in New York.
Like many auteurs, Anderson seems torn between rewriting his past and recreating it; between designed perfection and realism.
In its wake, the battle lines for the inevitable showdown with Isis are becoming ever clearer, rewriting the distinction between friend and foe, and even how wars in Iraq are fought.
Most humbling moment: Preening over a story I once handed in to the foreign desk, I couldn't resist asking the editor, "Well, does it sing?" Here is what he said: "Just keep triple-spacing it, sonny, so we can rewrite it between the lines".
It's certainly rewriting the social contract between passenger and chauffeur.
Zumbrunnen stated that there was "rewriting" in a scene between Theodore and Samantha, after Theodore goes on a blind date.
Hellfire and damnation is one option; another is rewriting the rules of engagement between companies, countries and shareholders.
