Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figure out The Big Lebowski's loopy plot, but an even better time can be had just watching Bridges' character trying to make sense of the confusion. The plot of The Big Lebowski is a spin on a detective yarn, which begins when the Dude meets a cranky old rich man who also happens to share his name, Jeffrey Lebowski...
Another essay co-authored by Herschbach and Bretislav Friedrich, senior research fellow in the department of chemistry and chemical biology, titled "Space Quantization: Otto Stern's Lucky Star," discusses the saga of the discovery of electron spin and its impact on modern chemistry...
...ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo has galvanized the U.S. and the European Union to move swiftly to head off a new round of ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia. ?The EU knows from experience in the region that if you let these things go too far, they can spin violently and dangerously out of control,? says TIME?s London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. The ?Contact Group? on former Yugoslavia -- the major EU governments, the U.S. and Russia -- meets in London Monday, and Hillenbrand says it is likely they will adopt a carrot-and-stick approach to force Belgrade...
...spin doctors may be disputing just how severe the consequences of continued defiance would be for Iraq following yesterday?s U.N. Security Council resolution, but the real challenge facing Washington is rethinking its Iraq policy, says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...worlds collide. The spinners meet with the lawyers in Ruff's second-floor office in the West Wing. Here the legal strategies hatched at the first sessions become p.r. strategies in the second. "We don't deal with facts," said a participant. "We deal with spin." The cast varies from day to day, but the communications team generally consists of McCurry, Emanuel, adviser Paul Begala and various other image makers...