Word: spinner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...auto industry crisis was beginning to look complicated, the latest news from Chrysler is sure to make it a head spinner. The deal announced this week not only gives Italy's Fiat S.p.A. a flexible stake in Chrysler, but turns the ultimate control of the automaker into the financial equivalent of a five lane roundabout...
...props and icons: a Cabinet Room table has buttons underneath marked ''Coke, Tab, Fresca, Pepsi, Coffee, Tea.'' When told that he is heading for the wrong aircraft, the President roars, ''Son, they're all my helicopters.'' At the end, ''Q'' Clearance dangles an intriguing question: Where did a onetime spinner of sea-horse operas learn to write comedy? Perhaps from his grandfather, Humorist Robert Benchley, or from his father, Novelist Nathaniel, or even from the exasperating Johnson (Lyndon, not Samuel), for whom young Peter once worked as a White House speechwriter. In any case, this Benchley's latest effort contains...
...could use some help. A lack of big hits - just as CD sales are falling off a cliff - has left its recorded music business out of tune. (Its sister publishing business, which licenses the use of tracks from a bulging back catalogue, is still a massive money-spinner.) Lacklustre sales from artists like the British singer Robbie Williams meant revenues tumbled 16% in the year to last April to $3.4 billion. But is a former Goldman Sachs trader with no experience in the music business the man to make EMI sing...
...surprisingly the big banks - many of them still nursing their wounds from the subprime meltdown - are eager to embrace this new money-spinner. Institutions like ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch and HSBC have all created structured products built around their own indices: protected offerings, for example, that track an index but give a minimum guaranteed return, or leveraged offerings that amplify gains and losses. They can be used to hedge risks presented by global warming, or simply to bet on the likelihood that cash will continue to cascade into the sector...
...Greengrass isn't alone among serious directors who, when they make an action film, want it to be More Than. Well, forget that. Just get an audience caught up in the Bourne web. Making a good action film is its own conspicuous achievement, and Greengrass is a superb spinner of plates. And conductor of stunts. And car scenes. Bourne runs through three or four each movie - those indestructo-cars that can be rammed and smashed, spun, stripped and flipped and still outrace and outlast all pursuers...