"He is Andover, Yale, Harvard, Episcopal Church, and yet he recast himself as a West Texas good old boy, a sportsman.
In the jazz instrumental album category, Jason Moran's equally boundary-pushing "All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller" was nominated for its modern yet reverent recast of music by the stride piano innovator.
Sadiq Khan offers our best hope yet for recasting Islam in the public imagination.
Yet she has deftly recast her father's more toxic talk about immigration and Islam.
For his part, Mr. Icahn says the credit crunch has opened a new door: he plans to recast himself yet again, this time as a "distressed activist investor".
Yet in the newly recast "Next to Normal," the musical that won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in April, nobody is bouncing off the walls anymore or threatening to pull the audience into one collective meltdown of extreme feelings.
Mr. Romney's speech Tuesday afternoon was yet another attempt to recast his message in favorable terms, and position himself as the candidate with the vision for the future.
For many independents and moderate Republicans, the best argument for Romney's candidacy was that, after adopting the rhetoric of the radical right during the primaries, he would recast himself, yet again, as an inoffensive, competent, nonideological technocrat: a former management consultant intent on turning around the finances of U.S.A. Corp.
Re "Will the Credit Crisis End the Activists' Run?" (DealBook, Aug. 26): I do not, as the column indicates, lament the current state of affairs, nor do I plan to "recast myself yet again, this time as a 'distressed activist investor.' " Quite to the contrary, I think that the credit crisis will create opportunities for activists knowledgeable in bankruptcies and distressed debt.
