It has been described as a "sort-of adaptation" of Garrison Keillor's real-life, long-running, award-winning radio show of the same name.
But even the staid Mythcon has its whimsical side: the Not Ready for Mythcon Players -- "half-rehearsed performances," Mr. Bratman said, "of some sort of silly adaptation".
However, some sort of long-term adaptation is necessary if objects are to maintain their appearance.
Wondering if there was some sort of mathematical pattern behind the adaptations, a team from Harvard University, including postdoc Otger Campàs and grad student Ricardo Mallarino, analyzed the beak shapes of 13 of Darwin's finches, including six species in the genus Geospiza and three in the genus Camarhynchus.
This sort of adaptation was once something the UK did well.
This may be an example of exactly the sort of adaptation that Mr. Trende and Mr. Bouie describe.
Spiros Malandrakis, alcoholic drinks analyst at Euromonitor International, argues that it's the sort of adaptation traditional houses are having to make in tough times.
He also mastered every sort of adaptation, from his erotic, satirical take on Sinclair Lewis's "Mantrap" to his erotic, tragic take on Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".
This film is avowedly inspired by Anton Chekhov, and since its appearance at this year's Cannes film festival, critics have specifically identified in it Chekhov's stories Excellent People (1886) and The Wife (1892), although in an interview with me, the director denied having intended or created any sort of adaptation.
Rather than have to cast Kurt Zouma straight into a full campaign and risk him enduring the sort of adaptation that, say, Eliaquim Mangala has experienced at Manchester City, José Mourinho can choose suitable games for the French centre-back to find his feet in English football.
