Word: spin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean enjoys speed. After he had finished skating in Sarajevo, he persuaded the British bobsled team to spin him down the hairpins with them. In England he races a Porsche, and once he hitched a ride in a jet fighter, looping the loops with the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force's aerial-acrobatics team...
...these challenges to the Administration's vaunted spin-control talents, the latest furor threatens to do the most damage. It flies in the face of deep public aversion to Iran, to dealing with supporters of terrorism and to using arms shipments as a bargaining tool for the release of hostages. Not surprisingly, the twelve-minute talk Reagan finally gave was perhaps the most defensive of his presidency, with only occasional touches of his usual confident eloquence...
...down her memoirs, with the stenographic assistance of one Rolf Marcus, an itinerant and blocked American journalist who needs the lodgings that she can provide. Ellen confesses, up front, that she has been known in her none-too-proper prime as La Belle Helene, but as she begins to spin her tale, she could easily be confused with a number of other names, including the Wife of Bath, Fanny Hill, Molly Bloom and Mrs. Malaprop...
Well, think again. The Harvard men's soccer team can't spin the earth backwards on its axis--but the booters are about to pull a tricky time trick nonetheless...
...early success of its all-out spin-control operation, though, it is by no means certain that the Administration can maintain its momentum. The rise in Reagan's poll standings is the kind of rally-'round-the-President response that appears almost automatically at any time of intense concentration on foreign affairs, but usually disappears in a fortnight or so. Some aspects of the Administration's explanation of "what really happened" at Reykjavik seem inconsistent or even contradictory. Poindexter at first implied that it was Reagan who in effect brought the summit to an end by picking up his papers...