This redefinition is the heralded Second Wave, a multi-billion-dollar series of developments that, by this year, was supposed to give Atlantic City enough hotel rooms, entertainment diversity and family-oriented regional tourist attractions to transform a day-tripper's gambling town into a major destination resort city on a par with Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla.
For many companies, the rally transformed a rough day into a banner one.
In downtown DC's Freedom Plaza on Thursday, liberal organizers transformed a four-day anti-war event that had been planned for months into an Occupy Wall Street rally that brought out the media in full force.
I giggled and the sound echoed around the kitchen and transformed an ordinary Tuesday breakfast into a happy affair for one.
But unlike Cinderella, who was transformed in a day, it took sablefish three-quarters of a century to move from the teeming Lower East Side, where it sold for 70 cents a pound and was usually carried home wrapped in butcher paper, to today's grand temples of gastronomy.
And when coffee shops across the country transformed for a day into "Luke's Diner" to celebrate the show's 16th anniversary in early October, fans lined up in droves.
"Buy a dozen get a dinosaur," it says at the local bakery, instantly transforming a boring day of errands for a little boy.
The use of this vanguard of the suffering transformed a victory parade into a day of mourning.
It also means the club will strive to keep players like Bale, who on Sunday transformed a pedestrian first half when he slipped through the porous Arsenal defense and artfully flicked a shot — with his favored left foot, of course — past the goalkeeper for the game's first goal.
Artist Maisie Broadhead is transforming a modern-day room into a 19th century photograph right before our eyes for the upcoming exhibition, "Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present".
