Word: spin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie The Great Waldo Pepper, an aerial barnstorming epic set in the '20s, Luci did some public hell-raising. She hopped into the cockpit of a 1918 plane, donned goggles and let Stunt Pilot Frank Tallman take her out for just a ride-apparently not even a spin, a roll, a loop-trie-loop, a couple of bunts...
...Doig's favorite subject is the American labor movement. He is neither a Marxist nor a socialist: he is a registered Democrat who loves to spin yarns about great and good Americans. For Mr. Doig, no American was ever so great as the laborer who fought big business during the thirties and forties...
...Allen is such an intense, mental player," said captain Carlsson, who lost to Allen 21-17, and 21-19. "He was ready to top-spin smash the ball each time so that you have to serve fast or hit to his backhand just to get a fair chance...
...Harvard Square on a scale comparable to the monument erected in Texas in his own honor by the departed Lyndon Johnson. This edifice will then be complemented by the development of new hotels, shopping centers and highways. And followed by the city wide expansion of the universities and their spin-off industries. The plan, even at the outset, will destroy the residential communities of Cambridge port and Riverside, where, already, homeowners are selling out to un principled real estate speculators who intend to turn the area into a land of mini condominiums priced beyond the pocketbooks of most present residents...
Slight intonation problems in the bassoon section marred the dramatic opening of the third movement, but as Wolff relaxed he completely controlled the movement. The notes seemed to spin out from his fingers leaving webs of music suspended momentarily in the theatre. His technique is so finished that he sounds like a mature virtuouso, though he actually turned 20 the day after the concert. Hugh Wolff is definitely going places. His performance Saturday was but one indication of that...