Word: spin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearby auditorium, as well as live-television viewers in Germany, Austria and Spain-saw and heard him struggle unsuccessfully against the vocally ungrateful requirements of Radames. Not content with being the world's foremost lyric tenor, Pavarotti in recent years has been moving into the heavier spin to repertory, forsaking the Lord Arthur Talbots and Tonios of Bellini and Donizetti for roles that call for weightier, more declamatory singing-Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, for example, and Riccardo in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In doing so, however, Pavarotti has sacrificed much of his freshness...
Finally, "The Golden Illusion", an area DJ. will spin his vinyl noise-makers in Mores Dining Hall from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday evening. The admission fee is a whopping $5, and probably not worth...
...says "This film is better than anything you'll ever do" and Eastwood replies "Yeah, but more people will see my movies and they'll think my plots were original. You'll wind up announcing winners on the Emmy Awards." Mifune sighs in agreement and shows Eastwood how to spin a six-shooter. Eastwood show Mifune how to open a beer can with a samurai sword...
...same oblivious good cheer comes through in a feature called "Young Love Gives Millionaire Sidney Down a New Lease on Life," the story of a Las Vegas stripper's whirlwind courtship with an 87-year-old tycoon. "Sidney took Goldie for a brief spin in his private jet, gave her a $300,000 necklace...But it wasn't until after they'd exchanged vows, back in Nevada, that he revealed his startling secret--that he is one of the richest men in the country." In real life and in the parody, People assumes the best about people--try to think...
...Where newspaper readers saw the case as little more than an upper-middle-class rendition of Frankie and Johnny (he done her wrong. Bang! Bang!), Trilling sees a drama worthy of the talents of Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy and F. Scott Fitzgerald. She also teases out enough class conflict to spin a dark web of one of egalitarian America's most sensitive subjects...