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Word: spinned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Labor bosses." Then there's the whole series of anti-Longley commercials, which charge that the Congressman has voted to trim student loans, reduce the security of pension funds and "cut Medicare [to] give new tax breaks to the wealthy." Says Bruno: "It's enough to make your head spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEATING THE SYSTEM | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...there's that. Just because Canadians can't vote, though, doesn't mean that their poll results are not to be analyzed. In fact, given the reverse English now common to political spin, I can imagine the ineligibility of Canadians as being used to make a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON'T COUNT THAT VOTE! | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...political savvy. Last month, when Morris resigned from the Clinton campaign after the media disclosed his $200-per- hour toe-sucking escapades, others in the Clinton camp said there would be no replacement because Clinton was his own best political strategist. The more skeptical may have considered this spin control by his campaign; it was not. Clinton's only skill is politics, but it is some skill. Arkansas has 75 counties and more than 5,000 voting precincts; Clinton knew the demography and politics of every one of them. On drives through the state with friends, he liked to tell...

Author: By Tom Cotton, | Title: Clinton's Politicking Is Sincere | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

Some people have imaginary friends they cherish during childhood. Others develop full-blown, separate personas which they cultivate right up to the moment they kill their creations. Taking a literal spin on the idea of an "inner child," the Unseen Theatre production of "And Baby Makes Seven" offered a solid, but unremarkable, portrayal of colliding fantasies and realities. Unfortunately, because of a tendency toward pat set-ups reminiscent of an odd sit-com pilot and a vague sense of lagging toward the end, the audience was left thinking about the mental exercise of story-telling rather than caring about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sitcom Schizophrenia Seizes HRDC | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...confused and ignored press secretary, Richard Kind seems poised to overtake Michael Richards' Kramer as sitcomdom's most physically inventive nervous wreck. Connie Britton and Alexander Gaberman are also quite funny as, respectively, a romantically addled accountant and a shy speechwriter. As homage to the unclean gymnastics of p.r., Spin City is certainly the season's most believable new sitcom. And also by far the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: DICK MORRIS, BUT PERKIER | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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