Word: spinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Iraq in desperate need of positive spin, Tariq Aziz launched a media charm offensive in New York Thursday. Between a slew of talk shows, Saddam's deputy prime minister took coffee with TIME's editors...
...Spin off the Campus Life Committee. The Reform Committee's proposal to allow this new committee to consist of both council members and other students is a good idea. Allowing more students to help organize campus-wide events like the Yale tailgate party and Springfest might help make those events more successful and lucrative. As a separate organization, the Campus Life Committee could have its own line on the term bill beneficially separating politics and social life on campus...
Then the two Presidents sat down facing each other in high-backed armchairs, with their top aides on nearby sofas. This session had been Clinton's idea and against the advice of his political strategists and media spin specialists. The political handlers wanted to hear no charges of "coddling dictators," a phrase Clinton had used against George Bush in the 1992 campaign. Finally, Clinton overruled his aides on having a private chat with Jiang, saying, "Listen, I can't really see where he stands on these things and really express my own feelings unless I'm able to meet with...
...good at being impulsive," Kate says. She needs time to spin her webs around those, like Maude and Mark, who would entrap her. She is good at duplicity--so good it becomes a habit. Thus she works it on Merton, the sort of weak, handsome man strong women are attracted to and know how to use. Millie, with one of those wilting diseases peculiar to heroines of romantic novels, has no such guile. Imperiled innocence is her lure for Merton, and it may draw him beyond the reach of Kate's conniving...
...record as an opportunity for image rehabilitation, not a chance to recapture some of his old musical magic. He devotes nearly half the 11 songs to crooning about home and family. Inspiring subjects to be sure, but Brown takes them beyond heartwarming into a realm only a spin doctor would love. She's All I Need is a heavy-handed affirmation of fidelity. The capper, though, has to be Sunday Morning: "I go to church and thank the Lord for another day/ When the service is over, I spend a little time with my family." Someone should tell Brown that...