That specter is of an army of mirrors, generators and transmission towers transforming Mojave Desert vistas like this one.
And then there were the trees, a patchwork of scarlet, orange and yellow that transformed a vista into something so perfect it almost didn't look real.
Today, Gnomesville is an ever-expanding oddity, with people from all over the world donating gnomes, and transforming a homespun novelty into a sprawling ceramic vista.
In Manhattan and Chicago, planners tamed chaos with gridded street schemes; Baron Haussmann obliterated twisty medieval Paris with his sweeping grands boulevards, transforming the city into a linked chain of vistas, plazas and parks.
Transforming a muddy swamp into a park of magnificent vistas, he extended and enhanced the architecture of the palace, and his monumental style reflected and heightened the splendour of Louis XIV's court.
For the rest, he has to push his Mr. Efficiency agenda, because in a rapidly transforming India, the urban poor are keenly aware of their rights, have access to information and see a vista of opportunity opening up.
Portraits become spectres and architectural vistas are transformed through a mosaic-like screen of patterned flatness.
Self-defined sophisticated gardeners have long disparaged this generous immigrant flower that was too simple to grow and too easily transformed landscapes into breathtaking vistas of beauty.
Afflicted with "awful tenacity" by "the vice of literature", doomed to addictive authorship despite poverty, failure and loneliness, his broken heroes somehow transform their misery into "vistas of… beauty and intensity".
The finale of a powerful two-day storm roared across the New York metropolitan area and played out over the Northeast yesterday, burying parts of the region in more than a foot of snow that set a record, slowed travel, challenged Christmas shoppers and transformed the landscape into vistas as uncluttered as early maps of America.
Now that many previously public firms are privately held and PE firms have shifted from buy and sell or hold to buy and transform, we see a new vista for data gathering, analyzing, and reinventing leadership and organization practices.
