The meeting came as Senate Republicans were struggling to build support for their health-care rewrite among conservatives who are concerned that the legislation is drifting too far to the left.
In 2001, Louis Menand wrote in The New Yorker that "Catcher in the Rye rewrites" among each new generation had become "a literary genre all its own".
She also became an uncredited "script doctor", polishing and rewriting screenplays (among them The River Wild, The Wedding Singer and Sister Act) for small fortunes, though she insisted jokingly on being referred to as "a script nurse.
Soviet law, unfit for commercial life, is being rewritten to promote and protect market exchanges among individuals and corporations.
Obviously, centuries of doctrine are not going to be rewritten in a two-day meeting, even assuming an inclination among the participants to make major changes.
Late last year, Kumar rewrote it, removing, among other things, a 26-item list of acts of cruelty against elephants, like forcing a sick or injured elephant to march long distances or making elephants play games like tug of war or football.
Among other issues, rewrites to the script were underway through late last week, and Mr. Dreyfuss, 63, had agreed to perform on the condition that he not have to participate in a normal rehearsal schedule and that he not have to commit all of his lines to memory.
Among his current projects: rewrites for his musical, "La Tempesta," based on "The Tempest" and composed by Andrew Gerle ("Gloryana") ("The best work I ever did," Jones said.
Or written, then rewritten.
