All 3 Uses of
revolution
in
The Princess Diaries
- Madonna Ciccone revolutionized the fashion world with her iconoclastic sense of style, sometimes offending people who are not very open-minded"for instance, her rhinestone cross earrings, which made many Christian groups ban her CDs"or who have no sense of humor"like Pepsi, which didn't like it when she danced in front of some burning crosses.†
Chpt 3revolutionized = created dramatic changestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" in revolutionize means to make. This is the same pattern you see in words like alphabetize, legalize, and vocalize.
- She, too, revolutionized the fashion world by refusing to wear the ugly old hats that her mother-in-law told her to wear, and instead wore Halston and Bill Blass.†
Chpt 3 *
- I tried to hang out at the Moscovitzes' as long as possible: I loaded the breakfast dishes in the dishwasher for Maya, since she was busy writing a letter to her congressman asking him to please do something about her son, Manuel, who was wrongfully imprisoned ten years ago for supporting a revolution in their country.†
Chpt 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation