Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's editorial supporting censure of the president illustrate selective ignorance of the nature of republican government. This crisis illustrates precisely why policy is not made by pollsters but by rational, level-headed representatives who can fully appreciate the implications to American politics. The fact that Democratic spin doctors and an accomplice media have been able to successfully frame this issue as "just about sex" has more to do with public apathy than any sort of rational public discourse on the subject...
...Tuesday's episode of "Spin City," in which for no good reason all the characters were dressed for a costume party, Michael J. Fox, as deputy mayor Mike Flaherty, burst out of a telephone booth in a Superman suit and cape. The symbolism might have been unintentional, but it was certainly striking: after announcing two weeks ago that he has been afflicted with Parkinson's Disease for the past seven years, the 37-year-old actor seemed as healthy and funny as ever--and like the real Superman, Christopher Reeve, who has been a vocal activist for the rights...
...Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. In typical fashion, instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them...
Stuart Ewen, professor of film and media studies at Hunter College, is the author of PR!, a social history of spin...
...course, there was never much in it for the states anyway, other than good press; in contrast to the tobacco suit, nobody was dangling umpteen gazillion simoleons in settlement money. Still, the defection does allow Redmond a little positive spin. Naturally, it was greeted as good news on Wall Street, where MSFT jumped more than 5 points in late-day trading...